§ 54. — Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC54]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead
entries by mining activities
Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Congress to the
contrary, any person who on and after June 21, 1949 prospects for,
mines, or removes by strip or open pit mining methods, any minerals from
any land included in a stock raising or other homestead entry or patent,
and who had been liable under such an existing Act only for damages
caused thereby to the crops or improvements of the entryman or patentee,
shall also be liable for any damage that may be caused to the value of
the land for grazing by such prospecting for, mining, or removal of
minerals. Nothing in this section shall be considered to impair any
vested right in existence on June 21, 1949.
(June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 5, 63 Stat. 215.)
Similar Provisions
Provisions similar to this section were contained in act June 17,
1949, ch. 221, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 201.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1.
