US CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
- § 21. — Mineral lands reserved.
- § 21a. — National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs.
- § 22. — Lands open to purchase by citizens.
- § 23. — Length of claims on veins or lodes.
- § 24. — Proof of citizenship.
- § 25. — Affidavit of citizenship.
- § 26. — Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment.
- § 27. — Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right.
- § 28. — Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; coowner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure.
- § 28-1. — Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions.
- § 28-2. — Definitions.
- § 28a. — Omitted.
- § 28b. — Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions.
- § 28c. — Length and termination of deferment.
- § 28d. — Performance of deferred work.
- § 28e. — Recordation of deferment.
- § 28f. — Fee.
- § 28g. — Location fee.
- § 28h. — Coownership.
- § 28i. — Failure to pay.
- § 28j. — Other requirements.
- § 28k. — Regulations.
- § 29. — Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits.
- § 30. — Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title.
- § 31. — Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim.
- § 32. — Findings by jury; costs.
- § 33. — Existing rights.
- § 34. — Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls.
- § 35. — Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land.
- § 36. — Subdivisions of 10acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements.
- § 37. — Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent.
- § 38. — Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent.
- § 39. — Surveyors of mining claims.
- § 40. — Verification of affidavits.
- § 41. — Intersecting or crossing veins.
- § 42. — Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment.
- § 43. — Conditions of sale by local legislature.
- § 44, 45. — Omitted.
- § 46. — Additional land districts and officers.
- § 47. — Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property.
- § 48. — Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands.
- § 49. — Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands.
- § 49a. — Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or highwater mark; transfer of title to future State.
- § 49b. — Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska.
- § 49c. — Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims.
- § 49d. — Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized.
- § 49e. — Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury.
- § 49f. — Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements.
- § 50. — Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands.
- § 51. — Water users' vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rightsofway for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession.
- § 52. — Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights.
- § 53. — Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title.
- § 54. — Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities.