Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73
§49c Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL › § 49c
Summary
Anyone who locates a mining claim must file a notice for record within 90 days after they discover the claim. The notice must be filed in the recorder’s office for the district where the land is; if the land is not in any recording district, file it with the clerk of the court division that oversees the recording office for that area.
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Title 30, §49c
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Notices of location of mining claims shall be filed for record within ninety days from the date of the discovery of the claim described in the notice, and all instruments shall be recorded in the recording district in which the property or subject matter affected by the instrument is situated, and where the property or subject matter is not situated in any established recording district the instrument affecting the same shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the division of the court having supervision over the recording division in which such property or subject matter is situated.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section is comprised of the proviso of section 15 of act June 6, 1900, which was formerly classified to section 382 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. The remainder of section 15, which was formerly classified to section 119 of Title 48, was omitted from the Code.
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30 U.S.C. § 49c
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73