Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 482p. Patents affecting lands within forest
Statutory text
On and after , 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 such 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 Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior, respectively.
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. 82–222 § 2 · 65 Stat. 658
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 482p
(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, § 2, 65 Stat. 118.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, § 2, 65 Stat. 118.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The conveyance to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereinabove authorized shall be made subject to the following express conditions: (a) That the Commonwealth, at its own expense, will preserve and maintain in a condition suitable for terminal purposes the improvements now existing on said property and those which may hereafter be constructed thereon; (b) that in time of war or national emergency the United States shall have the right of the free and unlimited use of all of said property including any improvements which may be erected by the grantee; and (c) that the property shall not be used for any purpose other than as a terminal except with the prior consent in writing of the Secretary of the Navy.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, § 2, 65 Stat. 118.)