§ 272. — Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC272]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER VIII--SULPHUR
Sec. 272. Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and
gas permittees
Upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior
that valuable deposits of sulphur have been discovered by the permittee
within the area covered by his permit, and that the land is chiefly
valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or
all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit, at a royalty of 5
per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sulphur at
the point of shipment to market, such lease to be taken in compact form
by legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; or if the land be not
surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided,
That where any person having been granted an oil and gas permit makes a
discovery of sulphur in lands covered by said permit, he shall have the
same privilege of leasing not to exceed six hundred and forty acres of
said land under the same terms and conditions as are given a sulphur
permittee under the provisions of this section.
(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 301.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41
Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this
chapter.
