Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits
§ 225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation
Statutory text
All leases of lands containing oil or gas, made or issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits. Violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute grounds for the forfeiture of the lease, to be enforced as provided in this chapter.
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 § 16 · 41 Stat. 305
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 225
Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful to give to any carrier or any officer, Delivery except for bona fide consignee, unlawful. agent, or person acting or assuming to act for such carrier an order requiring the delivery to any person of any liquor or package containing liquor consigned to, or purporting or claimed to be consigned to a person, when the purpose of the order is to enable any person not an actual bona fide consignee to obtain such liquor.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1946—Act , omitted condition that no wells should be drilled within two hundred feet of boundaries of leased lands.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Savings Provision
See note set out under section 181 of this title.
Outer Continental Shelf; Terms and Conditions of Leases
Terms and conditions of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1337 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Credits
1920–1946 · 2 acts
- 1920Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443
- 1946Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 2, 60 Stat. 951.
Show as published
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 2, 60 Stat. 951.)