30 USC § 225 - Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation

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identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s225"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "30 USC § 225 - Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "225"
section_name: "Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "OIL AND GAS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 2, 60 Stat. 951.)"
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# § 225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation

All leases of lands containing oil or gas, made or issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits. Violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute grounds for the forfeiture of the lease, to be enforced as provided in this chapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 2, 60 Stat. 951.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1946—Act , omitted condition that no wells should be drilled within two hundred feet of boundaries of leased lands.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Savings Provision

See note set out under .

### Outer Continental Shelf; Terms and Conditions of Leases

Terms and conditions of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see , Public Lands.