§ 202. — Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC202]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER II--COAL
Sec. 202. Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit
No company or corporation operating a common-carrier railroad shall
be given or hold a permit or lease under the provisions of this chapter
for any coal deposits except for its own use for railroad purposes; and
such limitations of use shall be expressed in all permits and leases
issued to such companies or corporations; and no such company or
corporation shall receive or hold under permit or lease more than ten
thousand two hundred and forty acres in the aggregate nor more than one
permit or lease for each two hundred miles of its railroad lines served
or to be served from such coal deposits exclusive of spurs or switches
and exclusive of branch lines built to connect the leased coal with the
railroad, and also exclusive of parts of the railroad operated mainly by
power produced otherwise than by steam.
Nothing in this section and section 201 of this title shall preclude
such a railroad of less than two hundred miles in length from securing
one permit or lease thereunder but no railroad shall hold a permit or
lease for lands in any State in which it does not operate main or branch
lines.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 2(c), 41 Stat. 438; June 13, 1944, ch. 244,
58 Stat. 275; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 289.)
Codification
Section is comprised of subsec. (c) of section 2 of act Feb. 25,
1920, as amended by section 1 of act June 3, 1948. Subsecs. (a) and (b)
of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, are classified to section 201 of this
title. Subsec. (d) of said section 2, as added by Pub. L. 94-377,
Sec. 5(b), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086, is classified to section 202a of
this title.
Amendments
1948--Act June 3, 1948, reenacted this section without change except
to make it subsec. (c) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920.
1944--Act June 13, 1944, inserted ``more than ten thousand two
hundred and forty acres in the aggregate nor'' before ``more than one
permit'', substituted ``railroad lines served or to be served from such
coal deposits'' for ``railroad line within the State in which such
property is situated,'', and prohibited a railroad from holding a permit
or lease for lands in any State in which it did not operate main or
branch lines.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 208 of this title; title 10
sections 7421, 7435.
