30-U.S.C.-225
§225 – Condition of Lease, Forfeiture For Violation
Pathway
Title 30 > Chapter 3A > Subchapter IV > Section 225
Details
- Reference: Section 225
- Legend: §225 – Condition of Lease, Forfeiture For Violation
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
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.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, §16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, §2, 60 Stat. 951.)
Amendments
1946—Act Aug. 8, 1946, omitted condition that no wells should be drilled within two hundred feet of boundaries of leased lands.
Savings Provision
See note set out under section 181 of this title.
Outer Continental Shelf; Terms and Conditions of Leases
Terms and conditions of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1337 of Title 43, Public Lands.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
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