---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 224"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "224"
heading: "Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/224"
units:
  - "Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits"
  - "Subchapter IV — Oil and Gas"
---

# §224. Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease


Until the permittee shall apply for lease to the one quarter of the [permit area](/usc/30/1291.md?p=17) heretofore provided for he shall pay to the United States 20 per centum of the gross value of all [oil](/usc/30/181.md) or gas secured by him from the lands embraced within his permit and sold or otherwise disposed of or held by him for sale or other disposition.


## Source credit

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 15, 41 Stat. 442.)