§ 208. — Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC208]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER II--COAL
Sec. 208. Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without
royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities
for household use without profit
In order to provide for the supply of strictly local domestic needs
for fuel, the Secretary of the Interior may, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe in advance, issue limited licenses or
permits to individuals or associations of individuals to prospect for,
mine, and take for their use but not for sale, coal from the public
lands without payment of royalty for the coal mined or the land
occupied, on such conditions not inconsistent with this chapter as in
his opinion will safeguard the public interests. This privilege shall
not extend to any corporations. In the case of municipal corporations
the Secretary of the Interior may issue such limited license or permit,
for not to exceed three hundred and twenty acres for a municipality of
less than one hundred thousand population, and not to exceed one
thousand two hundred and eighty acres for a municipality of not less
than one hundred thousand and not more than one hundred and fifty
thousand population; and not to exceed two thousand five hundred and
sixty acres for a municipality of one hundred and fifty thousand
population or more, the land to be selected within the State wherein the
municipal applicant may be located, upon condition that such municipal
corporations will mine the coal therein under proper conditions and
dispose of the same without profit to residents of such municipality for
household use: Provided, That the acquisition or holding of a lease
under sections 181, 201, and 202 to 207 of this title shall be no bar to
the holding of such tract or operation of such mine under said limited
license.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 8, 41 Stat. 440.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435.
