30 U.S.C. § 102
Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner
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 section 661 of title 43 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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1933–1938 · leading case: United States ex rel. United States Borax Co. v. Ickes, 98 F.2d 271 (D.C. Cir. 1938).
United States ex rel. United States Borax Co. v. Ickes, 98 F.2d 271 (D.C. Cir. 1938). “825 , 30 U.S. C.A. § 102, providing that annual assessment work may be done upon any one of a group of contiguous oil land locations, not exceeding five, in the same ownership, if this will tend toward their development or toward the determination of their oil bearing character.”
Rickert v. Thompson, 8 Alaska 398 (D. Alaska 1933). “It is significant that by statute (title 30 U.S.C.A. § 102 , section 183, C.L.A.) contiguity is made a condition of grouping for assessment work oil land claims located as placers.”
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