Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 482c. Patents affecting forest lands
Statutory text
On and after , all patents issued under the United States mining laws affecting lands within the Mount Hood National Forest within the State of Oregon shall convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim, together with the right to cut and remove so much of the timber therefrom as may be needed in extracting and removing the mineral deposits, if the timber is cut under sound principles of forest management as defined by the national-forest rules and regulations, but each patent shall reserve to the United States all title in or to the surface of the lands and products thereof, and no use of the surface of the claim or the resources therefrom not reasonably required for carrying on mining or prospecting shall be allowed except under the rules and regulations of the Forest Service.
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.
Pub. L. 73–280 § 2 · 48 Stat. 773
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 482c
(May 11, 1934, ch. 280, § 2, 48 Stat. 773.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 11, 1934, ch. 280, § 2, 48 Stat. 773.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That hereafter all patents issued under the United States Patents to convey title to mineral deposits. mining laws affecting lands within the Mount Hood National Forest within the State of Oregon shall convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim, together with the right to cut and remove so much Timber removal. of the timber therefrom as may be needed in extracting and removing the mineral deposits, if the timber is cut under sound principles of forest management as defined by the national-forest rules and regulations, but each patent shall reserve to the United States all Surface rights reserved. title in or to the surface of the lands and products thereof, and no use of the surface of the claim or the resources therefrom not reasonably required for carrying on mining or prospecting shall be allowed except under the rules and regulations of the Forest Service.
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Credits
(May 11, 1934, ch. 280, § 2, 48 Stat. 773.)