§ 225. — Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC225]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER IV--OIL AND GAS
Sec. 225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation
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, Sec. 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916,
Sec. 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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435.
