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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands

§ 396d. Rules and regulations governing operations; limitations on oil or gas leases

Statutory text

All operations under any oil, gas, or other mineral lease issued pursuant to the terms of sections 396a to 396g of this title or any other Act affecting restricted Indian lands shall be subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior. In the discretion of the said Secretary, any lease for oil or gas issued under the provisions of sections 396a to 396g of this title shall be made subject to the terms of any reasonable cooperative unit or other plan approved or prescribed by said Secretary prior or subsequent to the issuance of any such lease which involves the development or production of oil or gas from land covered by such lease.

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. Pub. L. 75–198 § 4 · 52 Stat. 347

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 396d

    (May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 4, 52 Stat. 348.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 4, 52 Stat. 348.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That all operations under any oil, gas, or other mineral lease issued pursuant to the terms of this or any other Act affecting restricted Indian lands shall be subject to the rules and regulations Cooperative unit, etc., plans. promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior. In the discretion of the said Secretary, any lease for oil or gas issued under the provisions of this Act shall be made subject to the terms of any reasonable cooperative unit or other plan approved or prescribed by said Secretary prior or subsequent to the issuance of any such lease which involves the development or production of oil or gas from land covered by such lease.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeal of Inconsistent Acts

For repeal of inconsistent acts, see section 7 of act , set out as a note under section 396a of this title.

Credits

(May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 4, 52 Stat. 348.)

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