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2016 Mississippi Code
Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land
Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law (§§ 53-9-1 - 53-9-91)
§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter

MS Code § 53-9-81 (2016) What's This?

This chapter shall not apply to any of the following activities:

(a) The extraction of coal by a landowner for that landowner's own noncommercial use from land owned or leased by the landowner; and

(b) The extraction of coal as an incidental part of federal, state or local financed highways or other construction under regulations promulgated by the commission.

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