Maryland Code, ENVIRONMENT 14-102
Terms Used In Maryland Code, ENVIRONMENT 14-102
- Administrator: includes an executor and a personal representative. See
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See - Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) “Coalbed methane” means methane and any other gaseous substance occurring in or produced from a coal seam or related, associated, or adjacent rock materials.
(c) “County” includes Baltimore City unless otherwise indicated.
(d) “Department” means the Department of the Environment.
(e) “Field” means the general area underlaid by one or more pools.
(f) “Fund” means the Oil and Gas Fund.
(g) “Gas” means all natural gas and other fluid hydrocarbons, not defined as oil, which are produced from a natural reservoir.
(h) “Oil” means crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form, except liquid hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas.
(i) “Owner” means the person who has the right to drill into and produce from a pool, or to store in a pool, and appropriate the oil or gas the person produces or stores either for the person or others.
(j) “Person” means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or other representative of any kind.
(k) “Pool” means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil, gas, or both.
(l) “Producer” means the owner of a well capable of producing oil, gas, or both.
(m) “Product” means any commodity produced in its natural state by an oil or gas well.
(n) (1) “Production” means the act or process of producing oil or gas from a natural reservoir.
(2) “Production” does not include the sale or distribution of oil or gas.
(o) (1) “Underground storage” means the storing of gas or oil in a geological stratum beneath the surface of the earth.
(2) “Underground storage” includes the injection of gas or oil into and withdrawal from an underground storage reservoir and any other operation necessary for or convenient to the storage of gas or of oil.
(p) “Underground storage reservoir” means the stratum and subsurface area that are used or are to be used for or in connection with the underground storage of gas or of oil.