Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits
§ 189. Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this chapter, also to fix and determine the boundary lines of any structure, or oil or gas field, for the purposes of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local authority to exercise any rights which they may have, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States.
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.
National Prohibition Act
Pub. L. 66–85 § 32 · 41 Stat. 305
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 189
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 32, 41 Stat. 450.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 32, 41 Stat. 450.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 32. In any affidavit, information, or indictment for the violation Pleadings. Indictments may include separate offenses. of this Act, separate offenses may be united in separate counts and the defendant may be tried on all at one trial and the penalty for all offenses may be imposed. It shall not be necessary in any affidavit, Form of complaint, etc. information, or indictment to give the name of the purchaser or to include any defensive negative averments, but it shall be sufficient to state that the act complained of was then and there prohibited and unlawful, but this provision shall not be construed to preclude the trial court from directing the furnishing the defendant a bill of particulars when it deems it proper to do so.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97–100, title II, § 201, , 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97–315, pp. 25, 26, .
Outer Continental Shelf; Rules and Regulations With Respect to Leases
Rules and regulations with respect to mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf to be prescribed by Secretary of the Interior, see section 1334 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Credits
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 32, 41 Stat. 450.)