§ 482k. Patents affecting forest lands

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. 1949

   Pub. L. 81–190 § 2 · 63 Stat. 168

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 482k

   (June 10, 1949, ch. 190, § 2, 63 Stat. 168.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 10, 1949, ch. 190, § 2, 63 Stat. 168.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That hereafter all patents issued under the United States mining laws affecting lands within the above-described area shall convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim, together with the right to cut and remove so much of the mature timber therefrom as may be needed in extracting and removing and beneficiation of 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 rides and regulations of the Department of Agriculture.

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