Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

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now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

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legal/us/code/title-30/chapter-29/section-1756.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "30 U.S.C. § 1756"
+description: "Expanded royalty obligations"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 30
+title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
+chapter_number: "29"
+chapter_name: "OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT"
+section: "1756"
+citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1756"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s1756"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml"
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+text_hash: "6e757a85d08ac77b3cf7e59e4cf5be7c5c639f9d5da49eb144e9eb594c4fd4a6"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 30 U.S.C. § 1756 - Expanded royalty obligations
+
+## Text
+
+Any lessee is liable for royalty payments on oil or gas lost or wasted from a lease site when such loss or waste is due to negligence on the part of the operator of the lease, or due to the failure to comply with any rule or regulation, order or citation issued under this chapter or any mineral leasing law.
+
+(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 308, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2462.)