§ 615. — Limitation of existing rights.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC615]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 15--SURFACE RESOURCES
SUBCHAPTER II--MINING LOCATIONS
Sec. 615. Limitation of existing rights
Nothing in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title
shall be construed in any manner to limit or restrict or to authorize
the limitation or restriction of any existing rights of any claimant
under any valid mining claim heretofore located, except as such rights
may be limited or restricted as a result of a proceeding pursuant to
section 613 of this title, or as a result of a waiver and relinquishment
pursuant to section 614 of this title; and nothing in this subchapter
and sections 601 and 603 of this title shall be construed in any manner
to authorized inclusion in any patent hereafter issued under the mining
laws of the United States for any mining claim heretofore or hereafter
located, of any reservation, limitation, or restriction not otherwise
authorized by law, or to limit or repeal any existing authority to
include any reservation, limitation, or restriction in any such patent,
or to limit or restrict any use of the lands covered by any patented or
unpatented mining claim by the United States, its lessees, permittees,
and licensees which is otherwise authorized by law.
(July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 7, 69 Stat. 372.)
References in Text
The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are
classified generally to this title.
