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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 214. Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception

Statutory text

The holder of any lease or permit issued under the provisions of sections 211 to 214 of this title shall have the right to use so much of the surface of unappropriated and unentered public lands not a part of his lease or permit, not exceeding eighty acres in area, as may be determined by the Secretary to be necessary or convenient for the extraction, treatment, and removal of the mineral deposits, but this provision shall not be applicable to national 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. National Prohibition Act

    Pub. L. 66–85 § 12 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 214

    Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 12, 41 Stat. 441

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 12, 41 Stat. 441

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 12. All persons manufacturing liquor for sale under the provisions of this title shall securely and permanently attach to every container thereof, as the same is manufactured, a label stating name of manufacturer, kind and quantity of liquor contained therein, and the date of its manufacture, together with the number of the permit authorizing the manufacture thereof; and all persons possessing such liquor in wholesale quantities shall securely keep and maintain such Attaching to packages. label thereon; and all persons selling at wholesale shall attach to every package of liquor, when sold, a label setting forth the kind and quantity of liquor contained therein, by whom manufactured, the date of sale, and the person to whom sold; which label shall likewise be kept and maintained thereon until the liquor is used for the purpose for which such sale was authorized.

  2. Pub. L. 86–391 § 1(b) · 74 Stat. 7

    Substituted · 30 U.S.C. § 214

    Pub. L. 86–391 substituted “lease or permit” for “lease” in two places

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 86–391 substituted “lease or permit” for “lease” in two places.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1948–1960 · 2 rounds

1960

Pub. L. 86–391 substituted “lease or permit” for “lease” in two places.

1948

Act , increased lands to be used from 40 to 80 acres, excepted national forest lands from its provisions, and substituted “The holder of any lease issued under the provisions of sections 211 to 214 of this title”, “public lands not a part of his lease”, and “or convenient for the extraction” for “Any qualified applicant to whom the Secretary of the Interior may grant a lease to develop and extract phosphates, or phosphate rock, under the provisions of this chapter”, “lands”, and “for the proper prospecting for or development, extraction”, respectively.

Credits

1920–1960 · 3 acts
  1. 1920Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 12, 41 Stat. 441
  2. 1948June 3, 1948, ch. 379, § 5, 62 Stat. 291
  3. 1960Pub. L. 86–391, § 1(b), , 74 Stat. 8.
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(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 12, 41 Stat. 441; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, § 5, 62 Stat. 291; Pub. L. 86–391, § 1(b), , 74 Stat. 8.)

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