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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management

§ 1755. Statute of limitations

Statutory text

Except in the case of fraud, any action to recover penalties under this chapter shall be barred unless the action is commenced within 6 years after the date of the act or omission which is the basis for the action.

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. 97–451 title III § 307 · 96 Stat. 2447

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1755

    (Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 307, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2462.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 307, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2462.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 307. statute of limitations Except in the case of fraud, any action to recover penalties under this Act shall be barred unless the action is commenced within 6 years after the date of the act or omission which is the basis for the action.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Applicability

Section no longer applicable with respect to Federal lands, but applicability of section to Indian leases not affected, see section 8(a) of Pub. L. 104–185, set out as a note under section 1732 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 307, , 96 Stat. 2462.)

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