Mining claim location boundary markers.

WORKING DRAFT
2006
STATE OF
WYOMING
06LSO-0085

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0156

Mining claim location boundary markers.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Miller and Walsh

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to mines; modifying requirements for mining claim location boundary markers; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 30
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103(a)(iii) is amended to read:

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103.

Prerequisites to filing location certificates.

(a)

Before the filing of a location certificate in the office of the county clerk and ex officio register of deeds, the discoverer of any lode, vein or fissure shall designate the location thereof as follows:

(iii)

By marking the surface boundaries of the claim, which shall be marked by
six (6)
four (4)
substantial monuments of stone or posts, hewed or marked on the side or sides, which face is toward the claim, and sunk in the ground, one (1) at each corner,
and one (1) at the center of each side line,
and when thus marking the boundaries of a claim, if any one (1) or more of such posts or monuments of stone shall fall, by necessity, upon precipitous ground, when the proper placing of it is impracticable or dangerous to life or limb, it shall be lawful to place any such post or monument of stone at the nearest point properly marked to designate its right place; provided, that no right to such lode or claim or its possession or enjoyment, shall be given to any person or persons, unless such person or persons shall discover in said claim mineral bearing rock in place.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
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tion.

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