45-6-65. License required--Compliance with requirements--Fee. An operator shall obtain a license to mine for sand, gravel, rock to be crushed and used in construction, pegmatite minerals or for limestone, iron ore, sand, gypsum, shale, pozzolan, or other materials used in the process of making cement or lime. The operator shall comply with the requirements of §§ 45-6-68, 45-6-69, 45-6-71, and 45-6-72 for each site to be mined. Failure to comply with these requirements for each site mined constitutes mining without a valid license.
The fee for the license is an annual fee of one hundred dollars for each individual mine site authorized under the license, which shall be deposited in the environment and natural resources fee fund established in § 1-40-30 by the department.
Source: SL 1983, ch 308, § 3; SL 1988, ch 357, § 2; SL 1988, ch 358, § 2; SL 1990, ch 354, § 3; SL 1993, ch 331; SL 1993, ch 333, § 3; SL 1994, ch 23, § 10; SL 1997, ch 226, § 1; SL 2009, ch 13, § 3.