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2006 South Dakota Code - 04 — Location And Working Of Mining Claims
- 45-4-1 — Discovery of lode within limits of claim essential.
- 45-4-2 — Conditions precedent to filing of location certificate--Monument at place of discovery--Posting notice--Marking of surface boundaries.
- 45-4-3 — Marking of surface boundaries of claim--Posts required--Placing in monument of stone.
- 45-4-4 — Location certificate--Recording of claim--Contents--Validity.
- 45-4-5 — Location certificate limited to single location.
- 45-4-6 — Lode claim--Dimensions--Maximum length--Width, determination by election.
- 45-4-7 — Location certificate--Fee for recording and certification--Certified copy on demand.
- 45-4-8 — Additional location certificate--Relocation--Existing rights of others not affected--Claimantnot precluded from proving title under previous location.
- 45-4-9 — Relocation of abandoned lode--Fixing of boundaries--Erection of new discoverymonument--Contents of relocation certificate.
- 45-4-10 — Location certificate--Surface ground included and excluded.
- 45-4-11 — Longitudinal limits of claim.
- 45-4-12 — Repealed.
- 45-4-13 — Right to mine separate from right to surface--Security required of miner--Enforcement.
- 45-4-14 — Fencing of mining claim or mineral property--Protection of livestock--Abandonment, fillingin of openings--Neglect, civil liability for damages, criminal liability.
- 45-4-15 — Actions involving mining claims--Proof of customs, usages, or regulations.
- 45-4-16 — Actions involving mining claims--Survey ordered by circuit court.
- 45-4-17 — Order of circuit court requiring survey of disputed mining claim--Designation of surveyors--Witnesses to examine property.
- 45-4-18 — Order of circuit court requiring survey of disputed mining claim--Requirements to beobserved in making order--Affidavits as to necessity.
- 45-4-19 — Actions involving mining claims--Orders requiring removal of obstacles in drifts or shafts.
- 45-4-20 — Mining claim--Threats or entry to obtain possession by force or violence as misdemeanor.
- 45-4-21 — Mining claim--Force and violence to influence operation--Trials of criminal actions--Evidence necessary for conviction.
- 45-4-22 — Writs of injunction for affirmative relief--Authority to issue--Restoration of possession ofmining property.
- 45-4-23 — Recording required--Affidavit of labor--Recording fee.
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