Any person, firm or corporation, receiving a prospecting permit or lease under the provisions of this act, and prospecting, exploring or operating for minerals, shall be liable to the surface owner or surface lessee for all damages or loss accruing to the surface interest in said land and to all crops and improvements thereupon and appurtenances and hereditaments thereunto belonging.
Added by Laws 1955, p. 374, § 7, emerg. eff. June 7, 1955. Renumbered from § 457 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 144, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.