---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 302"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "302"
heading: "Assignment of lease; subletting"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/302"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or under Railroads and Other Rights-Of-Way"
---

# §302. Assignment of lease; subletting


The right conferred by this chapter may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be assigned or sublet by the owner thereof to any corporation, firm, association, or individual.


## Source credit

(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 2, 46 Stat. 373.)