Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 1 — United States Bureau of Mines
§ 6. Personal interest of director and members of Bureau in mines
Statutory text
In conducting inquiries and investigations authorized under sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title neither the director nor any member of the United States Bureau of Mines shall have any personal or private interest in any mine or the products of any mine under investigation, or shall accept employment from any private party for services in the examination of any mine or private mineral property, or issue any report as to the valuation or the management of any mine or other private mineral property. Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the temporary employment by the United States Bureau of Mines, at a compensation not to exceed $10 per day, in a consulting capacity or in the investigation of special subjects, of any engineer or other expert whose principal professional practice is outside of such employment by said bureau.
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.
Pub. L. 61–240 § 4 · 36 Stat. 369
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 6
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 4, 36 Stat. 370
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 4, 36 Stat. 370Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Mines from the United States Geological Survey the supervision of the investigations of structural materials and the analyzing and testing of coals, lignites, and other mineral fuel substances Appropriations transferred. and the investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; and the appropriations made for such investigations may be expended under the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Mines in manner as if the same were so directed in the appropriations Acts; and such investigations shall hereafter be within the province of the Bureau of Mines, and shall cease and determine under the organization of the United Employees, etc., transferred. States Geological Survey; and such experts, employees, property and equipment as are now employed or used by the Geological Survey in connection with the subjects herewith transferred to the Bureau of Mines are directed to be transferred to said bureau.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted in text for “Bureau of Mines” pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102–285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. For provisions relating to closure and transfer of functions of the United States Bureau of Mines, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 1 of this title.
Credits
1910–1992 · 3 acts
- 1910May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 4, 36 Stat. 370
- 1913Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 4, 37 Stat. 682
- 1992Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.
Show as published
(May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 4, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 4, 37 Stat. 682; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.)