§ 6-5-304 — Offering mining claims for filing without meeting legal prerequisites; penalties

A person commits a felony punishable by imprisonment for not
more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than two thousand
dollars ($2,000.00), or both, if he offers a location
certificate for a placer mining claim or a lode claim or an
affidavit of assessment work to be filed with a county clerk's
office knowing the claim, certificate or affidavit was not
preceded by a proper location of the claim physically upon the
ground by establishing a proper notice of claim and designating
the surface boundaries as required by law.