Delaware Code § 7-4511

Lease of mineral rights in public lands; utility rights
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The power granted to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to lease the public lands shall include the right
of the Department, together with the Governor of this State, to execute and deliver, in proper form, a lease for the exclusive right of
mining, exploring by geophysical and other methods, and operating for and producing therefrom, oil, gas, casing head gas, casing head
gasoline, laying pipelines, telephone and telegraph lines and building tanks, power stations, gasoline plants, ponds and roadways, and the
exclusive right of injecting water, brine and other fluids into the subsurface strata of the public lands so demised.
(Code 1935, § 5746A; 45 Del. Laws, c. 272, § 1; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 4513; 57 Del. Laws, c. 617.)

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