§ 229. — Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC229]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER IV--OIL AND GAS
Sec. 229. Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of
lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and
conditions
In the case of lands bona fide entered as agricultural, and not
withdrawn or classified as mineral at the time of entry, but not
including lands claimed under any railroad grant, the entryman or
patentee, or assigns, where assignment was made prior to January 1,
1918, if the entry has been patented with the mineral right reserved,
shall be entitled to a preference right to a permit and to a lease, as
herein provided, in case of discovery; and within an area not greater
than a township such entryman and patentees, or assigns holding
restricted patents may combine their holdings, not to exceed two
thousand five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of making joint
application. Leases executed under this section and embracing only lands
so entered shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than
12\1/2\ per centum as to such areas within the permit as may not be
included within the discovery lease to which the permittee is entitled
under section 223 of this title.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 20, 41 Stat. 445.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435.
