---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1755"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1755"
heading: "Statute of limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1755"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter III — General Provisions"
---

# §1755. Statute of limitations


Except in the case of fraud, any action to recover [penalties](/usc/30/1702.md?p=29) under this chapter shall be barred unless the action is commenced within 6 years after the date of the act or omission which is the basis for the action.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 307, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2462.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Applicability

Section no longer applicable with respect to Federal lands, but applicability of section to Indian leases not affected, see section 8(a) of Pub. L. 104–185, set out as a note under section 1732 of this title.