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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 45 MINING, OIL AND GAS
Chapter 04. Location And Working Of Mining Claims
§45-4-9 Relocation of abandoned lode--Fixing of boundaries--Erection of new discovery monument--Contents of relocation certificate.
SD Codified L § 45-4-9 (through 2011) What's This?
45-4-9. Relocation of abandoned lode--Fixing of boundaries--Erection of new discovery monument--Contents of relocation certificate. The relocation of an abandoned lode mining claim shall be by fixing new boundaries in the same manner as if it were the location of a new claim, or the relocator may erect new or adopt the old boundaries, renewing the posts if removed or destroyed. In either case a new discovery monument shall be erected. In any case whether the whole or part of an abandoned claim is taken, the location certificate must state that the whole or any part of the new location is located as abandoned property.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 31, § 16; CL 1887, § 2010; RPolC 1903, § 2545; RC 1919, § 8739; SDC 1939, § 42.0116; SL 1955, ch 152, § 4.
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