Kansas Statutes § 55-201 Duty of lessee to have forfeited lease released; publication notice; affidavit to be recorded; notice to landowner; remedies.

55-201. Duty of lessee to have forfeited lease released; publication notice; affidavit to be recorded; notice to landowner; remedies. When any oil, gas or other mineral lease heretofore or hereafter given on land situated in any county of Kansas and recorded therein shall become forfeited it shall be the duty of the lessee, his or her successors or assigns, within sixty days from the date of the taking effect of this act, if the forfeiture occurred prior thereto, and within sixty days after the date of the forfeiture of any other lease, to have such lease surrendered in writing, such surrender to be signed by the party making the same, acknowledged and placed on record in the county where the leased land is situated without cost to the owner thereof: Provided, That, if the said lessee, his or her successors or assigns, shall fail or neglect to execute and record such surrender within the time provided for, then the owner of said land may serve upon said lessee, his or her successors or assigns, in person or by registered letter, at his or her last-known address, or by publication for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the land is situated, a notice in writing in substantially the following form: History: L. 1909, ch. 179, § 1; L. 1915, ch. 228, § 1; May 22; R.S. 1923, 55-201.