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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60

§272 Leases to Permittees; Privileges Extended to Oil and Gas Permittees

Title 30 › Chapter 3A— LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter VIII— SULPHUR › § 272

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

If a permit holder convinces the Secretary of the Interior they found valuable sulfur and the land is mainly worth that, they can get a lease for any or all of the land in the permit. The lease must pay a 5% royalty on the sulfur’s quantity or gross value at shipment. The lease must be a compact tract by standard survey units, or, if the land is not surveyed, the permit holder must pay for the survey under the Secretary’s rules. A person with an oil-and-gas permit who finds sulfur has the same leasing right, but only up to 640 acres, on the same terms.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §272

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 272

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60