77-3-305. Limitations on leasing. The board shall not issue leases:
     (1) to any citizen of another country or any person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity controlled by interests foreign to the United States unless such country provides for similar or like privileges to citizens of the United States; or
     (2) if, after a determination of the amount, location, and quality of the coal on the lands for lease, the extraction of the coal from such lands by strip-mining methods would adversely affect the methods of recovery of deep minable coal from such operations on such lands in the future.

     History: En. 81-511 by Sec. 6, Ch. 358, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 81-511(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 127, L. 1983.