45-4-6. Dimensions of lode claim–Determination of width by election.
The length of any lode claim may equal but not exceed fifteen hundred feet along the vein or lode.
The width of a lode claim shall be three hundred feet on each side of the center of the vein or lode. However, any county may, at any general election, determine upon a width less than three hundred feet but not less than twenty-five feet on each side of the vein or lode.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 31, §§1, 2; CL 1887, §§1997, 1998; SL 1899, ch 115, §1; RPolC 1903, §§2532, 2533; RC 1919, §§8726, 8727; SDC 1939, §42.0102; SL 2011, ch 165, §171.