§ 252. Disposal of mineral rights

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1938

   An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes

   Pub. L. 75–812 § 2 · 52 Stat. 1241

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 252

   (June 29, 1938, ch. 812, § 2, 52 Stat. 1242.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 29, 1938, ch. 812, § 2, 52 Stat. 1242.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That in the areas of said park lying east of the range line between ranges 9 and 10 and north of the seventh standard parallel, and east of the range line between ranges 4 and 5 west, Willamette meridian, all mineral deposits of the classes and kinds now subject to location, entry, and patent under the mining laws of the United States shall be, exclusive of the land containing them, subject to disposal under such laws for a period of five years from the date of approval of this Act, with rights of occupation and use of so much of the surface of the land as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining or removal of the minerals and under such general regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision