Purposes
Known as the The Mining Act
The act spans §§ 74–74 (24 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 164 N.C. App. 24 - Clark Stone Co. v. N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources (2004)
Most recently applied in 224 N.C. App. 491 - Stark v. N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources (December 2012)
1971, c. 545, s. 3.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The purposes of this Article are to provide:
(1) That the usefulness, productivity, and scenic values of all lands and waters involved in mining within the State will receive the greatest practical degree of protection and restoration.
(2) That from June 11, 1971, no mining shall be carried on in the State unless plans for such mining include reasonable provisions for protection of the surrounding environment and for reclamation of the area of land affected by mining.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.