§ 675. Conditions precedent for commencement of mining operations

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. 1893

   Pub. L. 52–183 § 15 · 27 Stat. 507

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 675

   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 15, 27 Stat. 509.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 15, 27 Stat. 509.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 15. That no permission granted to amine owner or owners under Conditions, etc., as to commencing operations. this act shall take effect, so far as regards the working of a mine, until all impounding dams or other restraining works, if any are prescribed by the order granting such permission, have been completed and until the impounding dams or other restraining works or settling reservoirs provided by said commission have reached such a stage as, in the opinion of said commission, it is safe to use the same: Provided, however, Proviso. Navigation, etc., sufficiently protected. That if said commission shall be of the opinion that the restraining and other works already constructed at the mine or mines shall be sufficient to protect the navigable rivers of said systems and the work of said commission, then the owner or owners of such mine or mines may be permitted to commence operations.

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