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2019 Montana Code Annotated
Title 77. State Lands
Chapter 3. Rock, Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Resources
Part 3. Coal
77-3-305. Limitations on leasing
Universal Citation: MT Code § 77-3-305 (2019)
77-3-305. Limitations on leasing. (1) The board may not issue leases to any citizen of another country or any person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity controlled by interests foreign to the United States unless that country provides for similar or like privileges to citizens of the United States.
(2) The board shall consider whether the extraction of the coal from those lands by strip-mining methods would adversely affect the methods of recovery of deep minable coal from those operations on those lands in the future.
History: En. 81-511 by Sec. 6, Ch. 358, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 81-511(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 127, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 332, L. 2011.
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