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Title 11 . Natural Resources
Chapter 86 . (No Regulations Filed)
Section 410. Prospecting site location notice and certificate of location

11 AAC 86.410. Prospecting site location notice and certificate of location

(a) On a monument at the northeast corner of the prospecting site location, the locator shall attach or post a notice. The notice may be in any form, including as a metal tag. The notice must include

(1) the name or number of the prospecting site location;

(2) the date of posting the notice of location;

(3) the meridian, township, range, section, and quarter-section of the prospecting site location;

(4) a sketch depicting, to the best of the locator's knowledge, the relationship of the prospecting site to adjacent and contiguous prospecting sites, mining claims, and leasehold locations;

(5) the name and current mailing address of each locator; and

(6) the recording district in which the prospecting site is located.

(b) The holder of a prospecting site location shall, within 45 days after the date of posting the location notice, record a certificate of location in the recording district in which the location is situated using a form approved by the department, or a substantially similar form meeting the recording requirements of 11 AAC 06.040. The certificate of location must include

(1) the name or number of the prospecting site location;

(2) the date of posting the notice of location;

(3) the meridian, township, range, section, and quarter-section of the prospecting site location;

(4) the name and current mailing address of each locator, and the signature of each locator or of the locator's agent;

(5) the name of the recording district in which the prospecting site is located; and

(6) a map at an indicated scale of 1:63,360 (one inch = one mile) or a more detailed scale that shows the boundaries of the prospecting site, the dominant physical features of the land, the protracted or surveyed section lines surrounding the prospecting site, and, to the best of the locator's knowledge, the relationship of the prospecting site to adjacent and contiguous mining claims, leasehold locations, and prospecting sites;

(7) repealed 1/19/2002.

(c) Failure to record a certificate of location within 45 days, as provided in (b) of this section, constitutes abandonment under AS 38.05.265 of all rights in the prospecting site location.

(d) Repealed 5/30/85.

(e) Repealed 5/30/85.

(f) Repealed 5/30/85.

History: Eff. 9/5/74, Register 51; am 12/31/82, Register 84; am 5/30/85, Register 94; am 8/16/2000, Register 155; am 1/19/2002, Register 161

Authority: AS 38.05.020

AS 38.05.245

AS 38.05.265


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