30 U.S.C. § 102 — Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner

submitted 123 years ago by ch. 548 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 93 words · no verdicts yet

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This section lets owners of neighboring oil-mining claims combine their required yearly upkeep work. Owners of up to five contiguous claims can do all the required annual labor on just one of the claims, as long as that work helps show whether the whole group holds oil.

This section is not split into lettered parts. For oil lands claimed as placer mining claims under the listed sections of this title (and section 661 of title 43), the law lets an owner combine work. The annual assessment labor required to keep the claims valid can all be done on just one claim in a group, as long as: the claims lie next to each other (contiguous), the same person or corporation owns all of them, there are no more than five claims in the group, and the labor helps develop the claims or helps show whether they contain oil.

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Where oil lands are located under the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.

Source credit: (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)

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1903Enacted · Act of Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548 · 32 Stat. 825

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