{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-168","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-168","heading":"Certificate as prima facie evidence - Burden of proof","body":"If, and when a certificate, as provided in Section 1 hereof, has\n\nbeen filed and recorded in the land records of the county in which\n\nthe tract of land described in said certificate is located, and such\n\ncertificate disclosed that no notice of intention to drill an oil\n\nwell or gas well on said described land has been filed with the\n\nCommission, or discloses that as to all wells, for which notices to\n\ndrill on said lands have been filed, and there has been filed a\n\nnotice to plug, or discloses that no production has been reported\n\nfrom said tract for six (6) months or more prior to the date of said\n\ncertificate, said certificate shall constitute prima facie evidence\n\nof the actual status of production from, development of, or\n\nabandonment of operations on said tract, and any person, firm or\n\ncorporation, who asserts the existence and validity of any oil and\n\ngas lease, or conveyance, the primary term of which has expired, and\n\nthe existence and validity of which lease or conveyance is dependent\n\nupon such development, production, or operations, as defeating the\n\nmerchantability of title to the tract covered by said certificate,\n\nor any part thereof, shall have the burden of proving that such\n\nlease or conveyance is in fact valid and subsisting.","path":["OK Code","Title 17"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os17.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"2250fa2bcadaa5bad747d67eccf396ff4f6c75e2f545be5214c52aefc45f16ef","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-167","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-17"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}