---
kind: "unit"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
key: "ch3A/schIV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter IV"
heading: "Oil and Gas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/ch3A-schIV"
sections_count: 22
---

# Subchapter IV — Oil and Gas

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining › Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

## Sections

- [§221...222i. Omitted](/usc/30/221...222i.md)
- [§223. Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental](/usc/30/223.md)
- [§223a. Repealed.](/usc/30/223a.md)
- [§224. Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease](/usc/30/224.md)
- [§225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation](/usc/30/225.md)
- [§226. Leasing of oil and gas parcels](/usc/30/226.md)
- [§226–1. Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before](/usc/30/226-1.md)
- [§226–2. Limitations for filing oil and gas contests](/usc/30/226-2.md)
- [§226–3. Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing](/usc/30/226-3.md)
- [§226b. Repealed.](/usc/30/226b.md)
- [§226c. Reduction of royalties under existing leases](/usc/30/226c.md)
- [§226e. Omitted](/usc/30/226e.md)
- [§227. Omitted](/usc/30/227.md)
- [§228. Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants](/usc/30/228.md)
- [§229. Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions](/usc/30/229.md)
- [§229a. Water struck while drilling for oil and gas](/usc/30/229a.md)
- [§230...233. Repealed.](/usc/30/230...233.md)
- [§233a. Permits or leases of certain lands in Okla­homa; retention of royalties](/usc/30/233a.md)
- [§234...236. Repealed.](/usc/30/234...236.md)
- [§236a. Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws](/usc/30/236a.md)
- [§236b. Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected](/usc/30/236b.md)
- [§237. Omitted](/usc/30/237.md)