Split Ohio High Court:  State Commission Can Restrict Mineral Rights Transfer

Mealey's (March 7, 2022, 7:03 AM EST) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A split Ohio Supreme Court on Feb. 23 ruled that the state’s Public Works Commission can restrict the transfer of mineral rights for drilling natural gas on land purchased from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund and that a community development corporation violated land-transfer restrictions that were included in a deed that it sold to a hydraulic fracturing company....