California Public Resources Code

§ 3900

PRC § 3900Div. 3.5 · Ch. 1

Statute text

Any person, who is a citizen of the United States or who has declared his or her intention to become a citizen, and who discovers a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or any other valuable deposit, may locate a claim upon the vein or lode, by defining the boundaries of the claim, in the manner specified in this chapter, by erecting at the point of discovery a monument as defined in Section 3915, and by posting in or on the monument a notice of the location. The notice shall contain all of the following:

(a)The name of the lode or claim.

(b)The name, current mailing address or current residence address, of the locator.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 494, Sec. 1.