§ 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities

Legislative history

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1. 1949

   Pub. L. 81–232 § 5 · 63 Stat. 214

   Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 54

   (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, § 5, 63 Stat. 215.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, § 5, 63 Stat. 215.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Congress to Liability for damages. the contrary, any person who hereafter prospects for, mines, or removes by strip or open pit mining methods, any minerals from any land included in a stock raising or other homestead entry or patent, and who had been liable under such an existing Act only tor damages caused thereby to the crops or improvements of the entryman or patentee, shall also be liable for any damage that may be caused to the value of the land for grazing By such prospecting for, mining, or removal of minerals. Nothing in this section shall be considered to impair any vested right in existence on the effective date of this section.

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