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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 12 — Multiple Mineral Development of the Same Tracts

§ 522. Conflicting periods of location of claims

Statutory text

(a)

If any mining claim which shall have been located subsequent to , and prior to , and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, shall cover any lands embraced within any mining claim which shall have been located prior to , and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said mining claim so located subsequent to , shall be deemed to have been located .

(b)

If any mining claim hereafter located shall cover any lands embraced within any mining claim which shall have been located prior to , and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said mining claim hereafter located shall be deemed to have been located one hundred and twenty-one days after .

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. 83–730 § 2 · 68 Stat. 1004

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 522

    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 2, 68 Stat. 709.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 2, 68 Stat. 709.)

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

Credits

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 2, 68 Stat. 709.)

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