# KRS § 353.050: 353.050 Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons > Kentucky · Statutes · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.050 ## Section - **Citation:** KRS § 353.050 - **Heading:** 353.050 Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons - **Jurisdiction:** Kentucky - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 353 / Section 353.050 ## Text 353.050 Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons. (1) Before a permit may be issued to drill a well on any tract known to be underlaid with coal-bearing strata the well operator shall have a plat prepared showing the exact location of the proposed well utilizing latitudes and longitudes and the Carter coordinate system. (2) If the location of any well proposed to be drilled, deepened, or reopened is known to be underlaid by a coal-bearing stratum, which is not in operation, owned by a person other than the oil and gas lessor or lessee then, simultaneously with the filing of an application for a permit, the applicant shall send by registered or certified mail a copy of the required plat to the record coal owner or owners, and record coal lessee. (3) If the coal-bearing stratum is under operation, a copy of the required plat shall also be sent by the applicant by registered or certified mail to each coal operator operating any stratum as designated on the current license issued by the department and at the address stated thereon. (4) If the address of any record owner is unknown to the applicant and cannot upon diligent inquiry within the county be ascertained, or if there are more than five (5) record owners then, if the applicant shall file with the department an affidavit that either condition exists, the department may prescribe some different method of notifying the record owner in lieu of sending a copy of the plat as required by this section, or may dispense with the requirements of this section. (5) The plat shall be filed and become a permanent record, subject to inspection at any time by any interested person. Any agent of the coal operator or any superintendent in actual charge of the mine may be considered as a coal operator, and any process agent or other agent or person in charge of the coal for him may be considered the owner, for the purposes of mailing the required copy of the plat. ## Nearby sections - [KRS § 353.010 353.010 Definitions for chapter](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.010.md) - [KRS § 353.020 353.020 Oil and gas lease or contract, when lessor may avoid](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.020.md) - [KRS § 353.030 353.030 Nonproductive well, when lease or contract satisfied by](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.030.md) - [KRS § 353.040 353.040 When offset wells to be drilled](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.040.md) - [KRS § 353.050 353.050 Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.050.md) - [KRS § 353.060 353.060 Petition to object to location of well -- Notice -- Hearing -- Drilling permit](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.060.md) - [KRS § 353.070 353.070 Index of plats -- Agreement permitting well operator to select location](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.070.md) - [KRS § 353.080 353.080 Drilling through coal bed](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.080.md) - [KRS § 353.090 353.090 Gas found beneath or between coal beds](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.090.md) - [KRS § 353.100 353.100 Casings to remain in place during life of productive well](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.100.md) - [KRS § 353.110 353.110 Abandonment of well drilled through coal strata -- Plugging of well](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.110.md) - [KRS § 353.120 353.120 Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.120.md) - [KRS § 353.130 353.130 Alternative methods that may be used when strata shot](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.130.md) - [KRS § 353.140 353.140 Gas escape pipe, when to be used](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.140.md) --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXVIII_C353_S353.050. 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