ND HB1520

Creates Industrial Commission jurisdiction to prevent it from determining legal relationships between lessors and lessees or enforcing lease terms and division orders.

Requires detailed royalty payment statements including 100% corrected volume sold, weighted average prices, taxes, deductions itemized by type (transportation, processing, compression, administrative), and owner's decimal interest.

Prohibits royalty owners from being charged for capital costs downstream of wells, overhead, risk capital, interest charges, cost of money, or rate of return; prevents negative royalty payments with exceptions for verifiable calculation mistakes recoupable within 180 days.

Mandates operators provide mineral owners with spacing unit information, decimal interest calculations, and recorded document references within 120 days of first production or interest changes, with $500 per day penalties plus $500 per additional month for non-compliance.

Establishes 18% annual interest on unpaid royalties due 150 days after marketing (18% continues accruing until paid), allows prevailing royalty owners to recover attorney's fees and court costs, and provides $2,000 per day civil penalties for wrongfully withheld production records.