{"data":{"id":"us-ca/prc-3501","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PRC § 3501","heading":"","body":"Any person, firm, corporation, or association who digs, drills, excavates, constructs, or owns, or controls a well from which natural gas flows shall, upon the abandonment of the well, cap or otherwise close the mouth of or entrance to the well in such a manner as to prevent the unnecessary or wasteful escape of natural gas into the atmosphere.\nNo person, firm, corporation, or association who owns or controls land in which such a well is situated shall wilfully permit natural gas flowing from the well wastefully or unnecessarily to escape into the atmosphere.","path":["Public Resources Code - PRC","DIVISION 3. OIL AND GAS [3000. - 3865.]","CHAPTER 2. Wasting of Natural Gas [3500. - 3503.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"301850baf1b47c7adad5f30c4476639cd26f3bb01fd71641bf87e01e6b9e2ff5","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/prc-3500","next":"us-ca/prc-3502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}