82-2-105. Relocation of abandoned claim. The relocator of an abandoned or forfeited mining claim may adopt as the relocator's discovery any shaft or other working existing upon the claim at the date of the relocation in which the vein, lode, or deposit is disclosed, but in that shaft or other working, the relocator shall perform the same discovery work that is required in the case of an original location.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 16, L. 1907; Sec. 2286, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7370, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7370, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 50-706; amd. Sec. 2718, Ch. 56, L. 2009.