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30 U.S.C. § 225 — Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation

submitted 106 years ago by ch. 85 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 99 words · no verdicts yet

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Every oil or gas lease made under this chapter requires the lessee to take reasonable precautions while exploring and mining to avoid wasting oil or gas and to keep water from entering the oil-bearing rock through drilled wells. Breaking this rule can lead to the lease being forfeited under the chapter's procedures.

Every lease of land containing oil or gas, made or issued under this chapter, comes with a condition: while exploring and mining, the lessee must take all reasonable precautions to prevent oil or gas in the land from being wasted, and to stop water from getting into the oil sands or oil-bearing rock through wells the lessee drilled, which could damage or destroy the oil deposits. If the lessee breaks this rule, that is grounds for forfeiting the lease, using the enforcement process set out elsewhere in this chapter.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

All leases of lands containing oil or gas, made or issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits. Violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute grounds for the forfeiture of the lease, to be enforced as provided in this chapter.

Source credit: (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 2, 60 Stat. 951.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1920Enacted · Act of Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85 · 41 Stat. 443
  • 1946Amended · Act of Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916 · 60 Stat. 951

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