§ 72. — Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC72]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS,
SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER I--COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL
Sec. 72. Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation
Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as
provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or
shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands,
and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a
preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines
so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less
than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this
title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving
any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six
hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements.
(R.S. Sec. 2348.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2348 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 2, 17
Stat. 607.
Indian Lands Excepted
See note set out under section 71 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 46, 47, 73, 74, 75, 76, 102 of this title.
