30 USC § 102 - Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner

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title: "30 USC § 102 - Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "102"
section_name: "Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)"
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# § 102. Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner

section 661 of title 43

Where oil lands are located under the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and  as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.

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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and , referred to in text, were in the original “title thirty-two, chapter six, Revised Statutes of the United States”, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.