§ 706. — Liabilities of occupants; trespass; limitations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC706]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 20--CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS
Sec. 706. Liabilities of occupants; trespass; limitations
(a) The execution of a conveyance as authorized by section 701 of
this title shall not relieve any occupant of the land conveyed of any
liability, existing on the date of said conveyance, to the United States
for unauthorized use of the land in and to which an interest is
conveyed.
(b) Except where a mining claim embracing land applied for under
this chapter by a qualified applicant was located at a time when the
land included therein was withdrawn or otherwise not subject to such
location, no trespass charges shall be sought or collected by the United
States from any qualified applicant who has filed an application for
land in the mining claim pursuant to this chapter, based upon occupancy
of such claim, whether residential or otherwise, for any period
preceding the final administrative determination of the invalidity of
the mining claim by the Secretary of the Interior or the voluntary
relinquishment of the mining claim, whichever occurs earlier. Nothing
contained in this chapter shall be construed as creating any liability
for trespass to the United States which would not exist in the absence
of this chapter. Relief under this section shall be limited to persons
who file applications for conveyances pursuant to section 701 of this
title within the period ending June 30, 1971.
(Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 6, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128; Pub. L. 90-111,
Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1967, 81 Stat. 311.)
Amendments
1967--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-111 extended from Oct. 23, 1967 to
June 30, 1971, the period in which relief shall be accorded under this
section to individuals who apply for conveyances pursuant to section 701
of this title.
