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Leases and option contracts authorized.
The department is authorized to execute option contracts and leases for the mining and extraction of coal from any public lands of the state, or to which it may hereafter acquire title, or from any lands sold or leased by the state the minerals of which have been reserved by the state.
NOTES:
Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW
79.02.010.