The order shall direct and authorize the payor to make payment
for [the] products taken in accordance with the [division order]
lease at the royalty owner's share established by the division
order.
["Interest owner." A person who is legally entitled to
payment from the proceeds derived from the sale of oil or gas
from an oil or gas well located in this Commonwealth.]
"Lessee." A person that has obtained the right to explore,
drill, stimulate, produce, market or sell oil, gas or natural
gas liquids pursuant to an executed lease.
* * *
"Royalty owner." Any owner of oil or gas in place or oil or
gas rights, subject to a lease covering such oil or gas in place
or oil or gas rights. The term includes the owner of an interest
in an oil or gas lease which entitles him to share in the
production of the oil or gas under such lease and the owner of
any interest in the oil or gas in place, or oil or gas rights,
who has not executed an oil and gas lease, to the extent that
the owner is not designated an "operator" under 58 Pa.C.S. §
3203 (relating to definitions).
Section 2. Sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the act are amended to
read:
Section 3.2. Payment information to [interest owners] royalty
owners.
(a) Payment information.--Whenever payment is made [for oil
or gas production to an interest owner, whether pursuant to a
division order, lease, servitude or other agreement,] to a
royalty owner for the production of oil, gas or natural gas
liquids, pursuant to an oil and gas lease, all of the following
information, at a minimum, shall be included on the check stub
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