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Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL (§§ 21 - 54)
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Publication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL |
Contains | sections 21 to 54 |
Date | 2011 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
- Table Of Contents
- Section 21 - Mineral lands reserved
- Section 21a - National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other...
- Section 22 - Lands open to purchase by citizens
- Section 23 - Length of claims on veins or lodes
- Section 24 - Proof of citizenship
- Section 25 - Affidavit of citizenship
- Section 26 - Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
- Section 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
- Section 28 - Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of...
- Section 28-1 - Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
- Section 28-2 - Definitions
- Section 28a - Omitted
- Section 28b - Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
- Section 28c - Length and termination of deferment
- Section 28d - Performance of deferred work
- Section 28e - Recordation of deferment
- Section 28f - Fee
- Section 28g - Location fee
- Section 28h - Co-ownership
- Section 28i - Failure to pay
- Section 28j - Other requirements
- Section 28k - Regulations
- Section 28l - Collection of mining law administration fees
- Section 29 - Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices...
- Section 30 - Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial...
- Section 31 - Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
- Section 32 - Findings by jury; costs
- Section 33 - Existing rights
- Section 34 - Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern...
- Section 35 - Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode...
- Section 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural...
- Section 37 - Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including...
- Section 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
- Section 39 - Surveyors of mining claims
- Section 40 - Verification of affidavits
- Section 41 - Intersecting or crossing veins
- Section 42 - Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
- Section 43 - Conditions of sale by local legislature
- Section 44, 45 - Omitted
- Section 46 - Additional land districts and officers
- Section 47 - Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
- Section 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
- Section 49 - Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
- Section 49a - Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals...
- Section 49b - Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
- Section 49c - Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
- Section 49d - Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
- Section 49e - Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures...
- Section 49f - Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
- Section 50 - Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
- Section 51 - Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of...
- Section 52 - Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
- Section 53 - Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
- Section 54 - Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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