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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 5 — Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or Under Railroads and Other Rights-of-Way

§ 302. Assignment of lease; subletting

Statutory text

The right conferred by this chapter may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be assigned or sublet by the owner thereof to any corporation, firm, association, or individual.

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. 71–307 § 2 · 46 Stat. 373

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 302

    (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 2, 46 Stat. 373.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 2, 46 Stat. 373.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the right conferred by this Act may, subject to Assignment authorized. the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be assigned or sublet by the owner thereof to any corporation, firm, association, or individual.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 2, 46 Stat. 373.)

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USLM identifier /us/usc/t30/s302