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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921, by Anonymous
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+Title: Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921
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+Author: Anonymous
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+Editor: The Department  of Industrial Relations
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+
+                         Mining Laws of Ohio
+
+                                1921
+
+                            COMPILED BY
+
+               THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
+
+
+                           Columbus, Ohio
+                     THE F.J. HEER PRINTING CO.
+                                1921
+                     Bound at the State Bindery
+
+
+
+
+=FOREWORD.=
+
+
+=The Department of Industrial Relations.=
+
+
+The act of the Eighty-fourth General Assembly, known as House Bill
+two hundred forty-nine, found in 109 Ohio Laws at page 105, became
+effective on July 1, 1921.
+
+This law provides for the reorganization of the executive department
+of the state government and is an administrative code centralizing
+related executive functions and activities for better administrative
+care and control.
+
+All duties, rights, liabilities, authority and privileges relating
+to MINES and MINING, formerly had and exercised under the law by THE
+INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, was, by the above mentioned law,
+conferred upon and imposed in THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
+to be administered by the Director of Industrial Relations.
+
+This pamphlet contains all the provisions of the General Code of
+Ohio directly relating to MINES and MINING, their operation, control
+and management, put into convenient form for the information and
+guidance of employers, employes and the general public, for whose
+benefit and observance they have been enacted.
+
+In any section of the law herein given where the phrase "Industrial
+Commission" or "The Industrial Commission of Ohio," or "Chief
+Inspector of Mines" is found, the phrase "The Department of
+Industrial Relations" is to be read, because such department has, by
+the law first above mentioned, been given the powers and duties
+before had by such commission.
+
+All the statutes printed in this pamphlet are in full force and
+effect.
+
+               The Department of Industrial Relations,
+
+                                              WILLIAM ROBINETT,
+                                         _Chief, Division of Mines_.
+
+
+
+
+=NOTICE.=
+
+
+Where there is more than one section relating to the same subject
+matter, the additional section references have been placed at the
+end of these sections in parenthesis.
+
+Persons are also requested to consult the Table of Contents as well
+as the Classified Index which is given in minute detail.
+
+Also read carefully the _Penalties_ which are provided in Section
+976 for violation of all laws commencing with duty of County Coroner
+in Section 921, and ending with Section 975, with the exception of
+Sections 968, 969 and 972, for which no penalties are provided.
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+                                               SECTIONS.
+
+Relating to chief and district inspectors      899-920
+
+Relating to county recorder and
+county coroner                                     921
+
+Relating to owner, lessee or agent             922-950
+
+Relating to superintendent, mine-foreman
+and over-seer                                  951-954
+
+Relating to stableman and fire-boss                955
+
+Relating to employes generally                 956-963
+
+Relating to persons not employes                   964
+
+General provisions                             965-972
+
+Relating to oil and gas well
+through coal measures                              973
+
+Relating to illuminating oil for
+mines                                          974-975
+
+Relating to penalties                              976
+
+Relating to fines collected, prosecutions,
+when act takes effect,
+and repeals                                    977-978
+
+Regulating and prohibiting solid
+shooting                                       976-1-2
+
+Regulation of weighing of coal                 978-1-7
+
+Relating to employment of
+minors                                     13001-13002
+
+Relating to Department of Industrial
+Relations                                   154-1-6-45
+
+
+
+RELATING TO CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES AND DISTRICT INSPECTORS OF
+MINES.
+
+
+
+Mining Laws of Ohio
+
+
+Sec. 898. Repealed. (Appointment of chief.)
+
+
+Sec. 899. [=Qualifications of chief inspector of mines.=] No person
+shall be appointed chief inspector of mines unless he has a
+competent knowledge, insofar as such sciences relate to mining, of
+chemistry, the mineralogy and geology of this state, a practical
+knowledge of the different systems of working and ventilating mines,
+the nature and properties of the noxious and poisonous gases in
+mines, particularly fire-damp, the best means of preventing the
+accumulation of such gases, and the best means of removing the same.
+He shall also have had at least five years actual practical
+experience in mining in this state, shall have a knowledge of mine
+engineering, and shall have a practical knowledge of the uses and
+dangers of electricity as applied at, in, and around mines.
+
+
+Sec. 900. The Industrial Commission of Ohio shall appoint, with the
+approval of the governor, and upon recommendation of the chief
+deputy of the division of mines and mining, five district inspectors
+of mines in addition to those now in such service, making in all the
+number of district inspectors of mines seventeen.
+
+
+Sec. 901. [=Qualifications of district inspectors of mines.=] No
+person shall be appointed district inspector of mines unless he has
+been a resident of the district for which he is appointed, for at
+least two years, has had at least five years' actual practical
+experience in mining in this state, has a practical knowledge of the
+best methods of working and ventilating mines, of the nature and
+properties of noxious and poisonous gases, particularly fire-damp,
+of the best means of detecting the presence of and preventing
+accumulation of such gases and the best means of removing the same,
+and has a practical knowledge of the uses and dangers of electricity
+as applied at, in and around mines.
+
+
+Sec. 902. Repealed. (Devoting entire time to duties.)
+
+
+Sec. 903. Repealed. (Bond.)
+
+
+Sec. 904. [=Offices of inspectors.=] The chief inspector of mines
+shall have an office at the seat of government, in which he shall
+keep the maps and plans of all mines in the state, and all records,
+correspondence, papers, apparatus, and other property belonging to
+the state, pertaining to his office, in accessible and convenient
+form for reference by persons entitled to examine them, all of which
+he shall deliver to his successor in office. The persons entitled to
+examine maps, plans, records and papers of a mine, shall be the
+owner, lessee or agent of such mine; the persons financially
+interested in such mine; the owner, or owners, of land adjoining
+such mine; the owner, or owners, of land adjacent to such mine; the
+owner, lessee or agent of a mine adjacent to such mine; and the
+authorized representatives of the employes of such mine. The chief
+inspector of mines shall not permit such maps, plans, records and
+papers to be removed from his office, and shall not furnish copies
+thereof to any persons, except by request of the owner, lessee or
+agent of the mine to which such maps, plans, records and papers
+pertain. Each district inspector shall keep his office in such place
+in his district as is central and convenient.
+
+
+Sec. 905. Repealed. H.B. 249--Sec. 3, 109 O.L.; 105. (Salaries and
+expenses of inspectors.)
+
+
+Sec. 906. [=Duties of chief inspector.=] The chief inspector of
+mines shall designate the counties, or portions thereof, which shall
+compose the different districts, and may change such districts
+whenever in his judgment the best interests of the service so
+require. He shall issue such instructions, and make such rules and
+regulations for the government of the district inspectors of mines
+consistent with the powers and duties vested in them by law, as will
+secure uniformity of action and proceedings throughout all the
+districts. The chief inspector of mines may order one district
+inspector of mines to the assistance of any other, or may make
+temporary transfers of district inspectors of mines, when, in his
+judgment, the efficiency of the service demands or permits, and with
+the consent of the governor, may remove any district inspector of
+mines for reasonable cause. The chief inspector of mines shall give
+such personal assistance to the district inspectors of mines as they
+may need, and make such personal inspection of the mines as he deems
+necessary and his other duties permit. He shall keep in his office
+and carefully preserve all maps, surveys, reports and other papers,
+required by law to be filed with him, and arrange and preserve them
+as a permanent record of ready, convenient and connected reference.
+He shall, upon receipt of a report of the district inspector of
+mines, or of a committee of miners, covering the conditions of a
+mine, promptly mail a copy thereof to the general office of the
+owner, lessee or agent of such mine. (Sec. 967.)
+
+
+Sec. 907. [=Duty in case of fatal accident.=] Upon receiving notice
+from the owner, lessee or agent that a fatal accident has occurred
+at a mine, the chief inspector of mines shall go, or order one of
+the district inspectors of mines to go, at once to the mine at which
+such accident occurred, inquire into its cause, and make a written
+report setting forth fully the condition of that part of the mine
+wherein the accident occurred, and the cause thereof. Such report
+shall be filed by the chief inspector of mines in his office, and a
+copy mailed to the general office of the owner, lessee or agent of
+such mine. (Sec. 921, 934, 940, 951.)
+
+
+Sec. 908. Repealed. (Annual Report.)
+
+
+Sec. 909. [=Duties of district inspectors of mines.=] Each district
+inspector of mines shall examine each mine in his district, in which
+men are employed, as often as practicable, and mines employing more
+than ten persons, at intervals not exceeding three months between
+examinations, noting particularly the condition of the boilers and
+machinery, the location and condition of the buildings, the
+condition of the workings of the mine, the condition of the
+traveling and haulways, the circulation and condition of the air and
+drainage, and shall see that the provisions of this act are complied
+with. Upon the completion of the examination of a mine, he shall
+within a reasonable time thereafter, report in writing to the chief
+inspector of mines, the conditions of the mine, showing the extent
+to which the provisions of this act are complied with or violated.
+(Sec. 913.)
+
+
+Sec. 910. [=District inspectors as sealers of weights and
+measures.=] The district inspectors of mines are hereby vested with
+all the powers and authority of county auditors as sealers of
+weights and measures in the different counties of this state, but
+shall exercise such authority in connection with weights and
+measures at mines, only. Each district inspector of mines may upon
+his regular examination of a mine, and shall, upon the written
+request of the duly authorized representatives of the miners, the
+owner, lessee, or agent, or the interested land owner, test the
+accuracy of the scales at any time, and post in the weight house a
+certificate provided by the chief inspector of mines, certifying the
+condition of the scales, provided that such tests be made at a
+reasonable time without unnecessary inference with the use of such
+scales. (Sec. 941.)
+
+
+[=Duty of district inspectors in case of controversy.=] In case of a
+controversy or disagreement between the district inspector of mines,
+and the owner, lessee or agent of a mine, or persons working
+therein, or in case of emergency requiring counsel, the district
+inspector of mines may call upon the chief inspector of mines for
+such assistance and counsel as is necessary.
+
+
+Sec. 911. [=Inspectors shall exercise discretion.=] Each inspector
+shall exercise discretion in the enforcement of the provisions of
+this act. If he finds that any matter, thing or practice, connected
+with any mine, and not prohibited by law, is dangerous or defective,
+(or that from a rigid enforcement of any of the express provisions
+of this act, such matter, thing or practice would become dangerous
+or defective), so as in his opinion to tend to the bodily injury of
+any person, such inspector shall give notice in writing to the
+owner, lessee, or agent of the mine, of the particulars in which
+such mine or any matter, thing, or practice connected therewith is
+dangerous or defective, and require it to be remedied by making such
+changes as the conditions may require. Provided, however, that in
+the exercise of the foregoing provisions relating to the application
+of electricity or electric wires, the judgment of the chief
+inspector of mines and the district inspector of mines, jointly
+shall be required. (Sec. 947-948.)
+
+
+Sec. 912. [=Inspectors shall have access to mines.=] For the purpose
+of making the examinations provided for in this act, the chief
+inspector of mines, and each district inspector of mines, may enter
+any mine at reasonable times, by day or night, but in such manner as
+will not unnecessarily impede the working of the mine, and the
+owner, lessee or agent thereof shall furnish the means necessary for
+such entry and examination.
+
+
+[=Examination of record of minors employed.=] The district inspector
+of mines shall examine the record kept by the mine foreman, of boys
+under sixteen years of age employed in each mine, and report to the
+chief inspector of mines, the number of such person employed in and
+about each mine, and enforce the provisions of this act relative to
+their employment. (Sec. 944-953.)
+
+    "The provisions of Section 912, 944 and 953 G.C. do not
+    permit the employment of children under 16 years of age in,
+    about or in connection with any mine. Such employment is
+    governed by the provisions of Section 13002 G.C."
+
+    Opinion No. 885 office of the Attorney General, State of
+    Ohio, December 21, 1917.
+
+
+Sec. 913. [=Report of district inspector to chief inspector.=] On or
+before each Monday, each district inspector of mines shall make and
+file in the office of the chief inspector of mines, a record showing
+the number of mines in the district examined by him during the
+preceding week, the number of persons employed in and about such
+mines, the date of each examination, condition of each mine
+examined, whether the laws relating to mines and mining are being
+observed or violated, and, if violated, the nature and extent of
+such violations, progress made in safeguarding the lives and
+protecting the health of the employes in and about the mines,
+together with such other facts of public interest concerning the
+condition of mines and the development and progress in mining, as he
+deems proper. (Sec. 909.)
+
+
+Sec. 914. [=Duties of chief inspector and oil and gas well
+inspector.=] The chief deputy inspector of mines and the oil and gas
+well inspector shall designate the townships in the various coal
+producing counties of Ohio, which shall be considered coal bearing
+or coal producing townships, to be included under the regulations as
+prescribed in section 973 relating to the mapping, drilling and
+abandonment of oil, gas or test wells. The chief deputy inspector of
+mines shall allow all matter pertaining to the mapping and drilling
+of oil and gas wells to be under the direct supervision of the oil
+and gas well inspector, except when wells are to be drilled, or have
+been drilled directly adjacent to some mining operation, or in case
+any arrangement for the drilling of an oil or gas well must
+necessarily be made in mutual understanding and consideration with
+some mining operation, or whenever the proper protection of the coal
+deposits is in question.
+
+The oil and gas well inspector shall supervise the granting of
+permits to drill or abandon a well, the filing and reprinting of
+maps of oil, gas or test wells, and see that all the provisions
+relating to the mapping, drilling, and abandonment of such wells are
+strictly complied with. In any case where the plugging method as
+outlined in section 973 cannot be applied, or if applied, would be
+found ineffective in carrying out the intended protection, which the
+law is meant to give, the oil and gas well inspector may designate
+the method of plugging to be used, in all such cases causing the
+abandonment report to show the manner in which the work was done.
+
+The oil and gas well inspector shall designate the counties or
+townships thereof which shall compose the different districts of the
+respective deputy oil and gas well inspectors, or change such
+districts whenever in his judgment the best interests of the service
+so demands. He shall issue instructions and regulations for the
+government of the deputy inspectors as will be consistent with the
+powers and duties vested in them by law, and secure the proper
+protection which the law intended. The oil and gas well inspector
+shall give such personal assistance to the deputy inspectors as they
+may need and make such personal inspection as he deems necessary
+throughout all the districts, at any time.
+
+Each deputy oil and gas well inspector shall carry out the
+instructions of the oil and gas well inspector with reference to the
+enforcement of the regulations provided in section 973, or other
+regulations that are deemed necessary to insure the protection which
+this section intends. Any person, firm or corporation dissatisfied
+with the ruling of the chief deputy inspector of mines, or the oil
+and gas well inspector under the provisions of this section shall
+have the right of appeal to the Industrial Commission of Ohio within
+ten days from the date of such ruling.
+
+
+=Chief Inspector of Mines Shall Provide and Maintain Rescue
+Apparatus.=
+
+
+Sec. 915. The chief inspector of mines shall provide and maintain,
+at the expense of the state, one rescue car fully equipped with not
+less than twelve approved oxygen breathing devices complete, one
+recharging equipment for recharging oxygen cylinders, twelve extra
+oxygen cylinders, two resuscitating outfits complete, forty approved
+safety lamps, one naphtha tank, twenty portable electric lamps
+complete, with storage batteries, and all necessary instruments and
+chemical tests, together with all necessary supplies and appliances
+therefor. The rescue car with its equipment, shall be stationed at
+such point as may be designated by the chief inspector of mines, and
+may be transferred, by his direction, at any time to any point
+within the state for the purpose of facilitating the efficient
+inspection of mines and conducting rescue work, and to demonstrate
+the various appliances and instruct persons in their use in first
+aid and rescue work.
+
+The rescue car with its equipment shall be continuously in charge of
+one person who shall be appointed by the chief inspector of mines,
+with the approval of the governor, and who shall receive a salary of
+twelve hundred dollars per annum, together with all necessary
+expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties.
+
+The person in charge of said rescue car shall, before entering upon
+the discharge of the duties connected therewith, give a bond to the
+state in the sum of two thousand dollars with two or more sureties
+approved by the governor conditioned for the faithful discharge of
+the duties of his office. Such bond with the approval of the
+governor and the oath of office endorsed thereon shall be deposited
+with the secretary of state and kept in his office.
+
+(103 O.L. 467.)
+
+
+=Five Rescue Stations to be Provided and Maintained; Equipment of
+Same.=
+
+
+Sec. 915-1. The industrial commission of Ohio shall provide and
+maintain at the expense of the state, five rescue stations, each
+station to be equipped with not less than five approved breathing
+devices complete, one recharging or refilling pump for recharging
+oxygen cylinders, five extra oxygen cylinders, one resuscitating
+outfit, five approved mine safety lamps, five approved electric mine
+safety lamps complete, one lamp testing cabinet, not less than one
+thousand feet of three inch hose with standard connection and
+nozzles complete, one anemometer, one first aid cabinet and
+supplies, six stretchers with woolen blankets for each, and one
+automobile truck of sufficient capacity to transport equipment from
+station to any mine located within the district in which the rescue
+station is located.
+
+
+=Location of Stations; Superintendent; Salary.=
+
+Such rescue stations shall be centrally located within the coal
+producing counties, so as to cover the largest number of mines
+within the shortest period of time, and each rescue station shall be
+continually in charge of a superintendent who shall be appointed by
+the industrial commission of Ohio with the approval of the governor,
+who shall receive a salary in a sum equal to that provided for
+district inspectors of mines, together with all necessary expenses
+incurred in the discharge of his duties.
+
+
+=Qualifications of Superintendent.=
+
+The qualifications of superintendents of rescue stations shall be
+the same as that of district inspector of mines, namely, that no
+person shall be appointed superintendent of rescue stations unless
+he has been a resident of the district for which he is appointed for
+at least two years, has had at least five years' actual practical
+experience in mining in this state, has a practical knowledge of the
+best methods of working and ventilating mines of the nature and
+properties of noxious and poisonous gases, particularly fire damp,
+of the best means of detecting the presence of and preventing
+accumulation of such gases and the best means of removing the same,
+and has a practical knowledge of the uses and dangers of electricity
+as applied at, in and around mines.
+
+
+=Duties of Superintendent.=
+
+Each superintendent of rescue station shall devote his entire time
+to the duties of his office, and shall at all times keep the
+equipment of such station in constant state of repair and be ready
+to meet any emergency that may arise at any mine at any time, either
+day or night. He shall teach and train first aid and rescue crews in
+the use of first aid and rescue equipment and shall be required to
+keep his station at all times in a clean and sanitary condition, and
+subject to such rules and regulations as the industrial commission
+of Ohio may from time to time establish.
+
+(108 O.L. 1278.)
+
+
+Sec. 916. [=Action for non-compliance with provisions of this act.=]
+If the appliances of a mine for the safety of the persons working
+therein do not conform to the provisions of this act, or if the
+owner, lessee or agent disregards the requirements thereof, on
+application by the chief inspector of mines in the name of the
+state, any court of competent jurisdiction may enjoin or restrain
+the owner, lessee or agent from operating such mine, until it is
+made to conform to the provisions of this act. Such remedy shall be
+cumulative, and shall not affect any other proceedings authorized by
+law against such owner, lessee or agent for the matter complained of
+in the action. (Sec. 927-928.)
+
+
+Sec. 917. [=Failure to make map and forfeiture.=] Upon the refusal
+or neglect of the owner, lessee or agent of a mine to make and file
+a map, or any addition thereto, within sixty days after being
+directed to do so by the chief inspector of mines, as provided for
+in this act, the chief inspector of mines may cause such map or
+addition thereto to be made in duplicate at the expense of such
+owner, lessee or agent, the cost of which shall be recoverable
+against such owner, lessee or agent, in the name of the chief
+inspector of mines in any court of competent jurisdiction in the
+county in which such mine is located, or in Franklin county. (Sec.
+904, 935, 936, 937.)
+
+
+Sec. 918. [=Complaint against district inspector; how made.=] When
+written charges of neglect of duty, incompetency, or malfeasance in
+office against any district inspector of mines, are made and filed
+with the chief inspector of mines, signed by not less than fifteen
+employes, or an owner, lessee or agent of a mine, the chief
+inspector of mines shall promptly investigate such charges, and
+advise in writing, addressed to the complainant whose name appears
+first in the charges, the result of such investigation.
+
+
+[=Complaint against chief inspector, how made; appeal.=] When
+written charges of neglect of duty, incompetency or malfeasance in
+office against the chief inspector of mines, are made and filed with
+the governor, signed by not less than fifteen employes, or the
+owner, lessee or agent of a mine, or if not less than fifteen
+employes, or the owner, lessee or agent of a mine, having filed
+charges against a district inspector of mines with the chief
+inspector of mines, are dissatisfied with the result of the
+investigation made by him, and appealed to the governor by filing
+the same charges against such district inspector of mines with the
+governor, he shall make, or cause to be made, an investigation of
+such charges, and advise in writing, addressed to the complainant
+whose name appears first in the charges, the result of such
+investigation.
+
+
+Sec. 919. [=Appeal and hoard of examiners.=] After such appeal from
+the decision of the chief inspector of mines, or after charges have
+been filed against the chief inspector of mines with the governor,
+and the result of the investigation made by him, or at his instance,
+is unsatisfactory to the complainant, and notice thereof is given to
+the governor in writing by said complainant, accompanied with a bond
+in the sum of five hundred dollars, payable to the state,
+conditioned for the payment of all costs and expenses of the
+investigation of such charges, in the event such charges are not
+sustained, and signed by two or more responsible freeholders, the
+governor shall convene a board of examiners, consisting of two
+practical miners, one chemist, one mining engineer, and one mine
+operator at such time and place as he directs, giving ten days'
+notice thereof to the inspector against whom the charges are made,
+and also to the person whose name appears first in the charges.
+
+
+[=Duties of board.=] When so convened, and being duly sworn truly to
+try and decide upon the charges made, the board of examiners shall
+summon any witnesses desired by either party, and examine them, on
+oath, administered by a member of the board. Depositions may be read
+on such examination as in other cases. The board shall examine fully
+into the truth of such charges and report the result of its
+investigation to the governor; and, according to its finding, award
+the costs and expenses of such investigation against the inspector
+or the persons signing the bond. The costs and expenses of such
+investigation shall include a compensation of five dollars per day
+for each member of the board, for the time occupied in the trial,
+and in traveling to and from his home, together with all legitimate
+expenses which shall be paid from the state treasury on the
+certificate of the president of such board. The attorney general
+shall proceed to collect such costs and expenses, and pay them into
+the state treasury.
+
+
+Sec. 920. [=This act shall not create new office or displace any
+officer.=] No change herein made in the name of an office existing
+when this act takes effect shall create a new office. The incumbents
+of offices when this act takes effect, the duties of which are
+herein defined, or the filling of which is herein provided for,
+shall hold their respective offices for the full term for which they
+were severally elected or appointed, the same as if this act had not
+been passed.
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO COUNTY RECORDER AND COUNTY CORONER.=
+
+
+Sec. 921. [=Duty of Recorder.=] The recorder of the county, when
+presented with a map of an abandoned mine, by the owner, lessee or
+agent thereof, as provided for in this act, shall properly label,
+file and preserve the same as a part of the records of the land upon
+which said mine is located. (Sec. 937.)
+
+
+[=Duty of coroner.=] Upon receiving notice of a death occurring at a
+mine, as provided for in this act, the coroner shall hold an inquest
+forthwith upon the body of such person, inquire carefully into the
+cause of his death, and within ten days after such inquest, return a
+copy of his findings, with a description of the body, and all the
+testimony before him, to the chief inspector of mines. Upon request
+of the owner, lessee or agent of the mine where such person was
+employed, shall furnish a copy thereof to such owner, lessee or
+agent, for which such coroner shall be entitled to a fee of ten
+cents per legal cap page, but in no case more than five dollars for
+any one inquest, for copy furnished owner or lessee. (Sec. 940;
+Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO OWNER, LESSEE OR AGENT.=
+
+
+Sec. 922. [=Ventilation of mines.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a
+mine, shall provide and maintain the necessary artificial means of
+capacity and power capable of supplying the required ventilation,
+and shall maintain a sufficient volume of air, not less per minute
+than one hundred and fifty cubic feet for each person, and five
+hundred cubic feet for each animal working therein, measured at the
+intake, and distributed so as to expel or dilute and render
+harmless, explosive, poisonous and noxious gases.
+
+
+[=Additional requirements where fire-damp is present.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine generating fire-damp, so as to be detected
+by a safety lamp, shall, in addition to the foregoing, provide and
+maintain not less than fifty cubic feet of air per minute for each
+person working therein. (Sec. 923, 924, 952; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 923. [=Ventilating appliances.=] In each mine, the doors used
+in assisting or directing the ventilation thereof, shall be hung so
+that they will close themselves, and shall be kept closed except
+while persons or cars are passing through same. Each door, not
+operated automatically, through which cars are required to pass,
+shall have an attendant, whose first duty shall be to open it for
+transportation, and prevent it from standing open longer than
+necessary for cars to pass through, and, persons in charge of cars
+passing through automatic doors shall be required to keep a close
+watch over such doors, and if any such door fails to close, they
+shall promptly close same and report such fact to the mine foreman.
+This shall not prevent the attendant from performing other duties,
+provided the door is not kept open longer than is necessary for cars
+to pass through. Where necessary, a refuge place shall be provided
+at each door for the safety of the attendant. (Sec. 943, 958;
+Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 924. [=Ventilation of mines while persons working therein.=] At
+each mine where the ventilation is not continuous, it shall be
+started a sufficient length of time prior to the appointed time for
+any person, or persons, working therein to enter, to clear the mine
+of explosive, poisonous and noxious gases, and shall be kept in
+operation a sufficient length of time after the appointed time for
+such employes to leave their working places, for all persons to be
+out of the mine. (Sec. 922, 923, 952; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+[=Pressure gauges.=] At each mine generating fire-damp so as to be
+detected by a safety lamp, and wherein twenty or more persons are
+employed, a recording pressure gauge for the purpose of recording
+the pressure or vacuum of the main air current, shall be provided
+and maintained, which shall be kept in constant use, and records
+preserved for ninety days, subject to the inspection of the chief
+inspector of mines and the district inspector of mines. (Penalty,
+Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 925. [=Competent person or persons shall be designated as
+fire-boss.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a mine generating
+fire-damp so as to be detected by a safety lamp, shall designate a
+competent person or persons as fire boss or fire bosses, who shall
+make a thorough examination of each working place in the mine every
+morning with a standard safety lamp, not more than three hours prior
+to the appointed time for the employes to enter the mine. As
+evidence of such examination, the fire boss shall mark with chalk
+upon the face of the coal, or in some other conspicuous place, his
+initials and date of the month upon which the examination is made.
+If there is any standing gas discovered, he must leave a danger
+signal across every entrance to such place.
+
+
+[=Examination of other than working places.=] Each mine generating
+fire-damp so as to be detected by a safety lamp, shall be kept free
+from standing gas. All traveling ways, entrances to old workings,
+and places not in the actual course of working, shall be carefully
+examined with a safety lamp by the fire boss not more than three
+hours before the appointed time for persons employed therein to
+enter. Parts of the mine not in the actual course of working and
+available, shall be examined not less than once each three days, and
+shall be so fenced as to prevent persons from inadvertently entering
+therein. (Sec. 955, 959; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 926. [=Breakthroughs and brattices.=] From a point where the
+seam is reached in the opening of a mine, to a point not exceeding a
+distance of four hundred feet therefrom, breakthroughs shall be made
+between main entries, where there are no rooms worked, not more than
+one hundred feet apart, provided such entries are not advanced
+beyond the point where the breakthrough will be made until the
+breakthrough is complete. Breakthroughs between entries, except as
+hereinbefore provided, shall be made not exceeding sixty feet apart.
+Where there is a solid block on one side of a room, breakthroughs
+shall be made between such room and the adjacent room not to exceed
+sixty feet apart; where there is a breast or group of rooms, a
+breakthrough shall be made on one side or the other of each room,
+except the room adjoining said block, not to exceed forty feet from
+the outside corner of the breakthrough to the nearest corner of the
+entrance to the room, and on the opposite side of the same room a
+breakthrough shall be made, not to exceed eighty feet from the
+outside corner of the breakthrough to the nearest corner of the
+entrance to the room, and thereafter breakthroughs shall be made not
+to exceed eighty feet apart on each side of the room. No working
+place, except those provided for within a distance of four hundred
+feet of the principal openings of a mine, shall be driven more than
+eighty feet in advance of a breakthrough or air-way. The required
+air current shall be conducted to the breakthrough nearest the face
+of such entry or room. All breakthroughs between entries, and when
+necessary between rooms, except the one nearest the working face,
+shall be closed and made air-tight by brattice, trap doors or other
+means, so that the current of air in circulation may sweep to the
+interior of the mine. Brattices between permanent inlet and outlet
+airways shall be constructed in a substantial manner of brick,
+masonry, concrete, or non-perishable material. In mines generating
+fire-damp, so as to be detected by a safety lamp, the air current
+shall be conducted by brattice, or other means, near enough to the
+working face to expel the fire-damp, and prevent the accumulation of
+the same. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 927. [=Safe appliances for hoisting persons.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine shall provide and maintain safe
+appliances, approved by the district inspector of mines, for the
+ingress and egress of persons in each shaft, designated by such
+owner, lessee or agent as a means of ingress and egress for persons
+employed therein. When there is but one shaft available for ingress
+and egress from any unavoidable cause, the appliances therein shall
+be kept available to persons therein employed at all times. When
+such appliances in any shaft are rendered unavailable from any
+cause, the same shall be restored without delay.
+
+
+[=Emergency appliances.=] When the only means of egress is by
+vertical shaft, in which cages or elevators are used as a means of
+hoisting persons therein employed, and the power for operating same
+is derived from but one source, the owner, lessee or agent shall
+provide and keep on hand for use in the event of an accident to the
+hoisting apparatus or the power by which same is operated, a
+suitable windlass, capable of hoisting the persons from the mine.
+
+
+[=Competent engineers.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a mine worked
+by a shaft or slope, shall put in charge of an engine used for
+lowering into or hoisting out of such mine persons employed therein,
+only experienced, competent and sober engineers. (Sec. 916, 928;
+Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 928. [=Metal speaking tube and safety appliances.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine operated by shaft, shall provide and
+maintain a metal tube suitable for conversation between persons,
+connecting the engine room with the top and bottom of such shaft; an
+approved safety catch, a sufficient cover, and rings or other
+adequate handholds for ten persons, on all cages used for lowering
+and hoisting persons: Such cages to be protected on each side by a
+boiler plate not less than one-fourth inch in thickness, and not
+less than three feet high, and shall provide an approved safety gate
+at the top of each shaft, an adequate brake to control the drum used
+for lowering or hoisting persons in shafts or slopes, and an
+indicator on all machines used for such purpose, to show the
+location of cages in shaft or slope. No cage having an unstable or
+self-dumping platform shall be used for the carriage of persons
+unless such platform is securely locked. (Sec. 916, 927; Penalty,
+Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 929. [=Hoisting and lowering of persons.=] The owner, lessee or
+agent of a mine, at which the only means of ingress and egress for
+the persons employed therein is by a vertical shaft or shafts, of
+fifty feet or more in depth, shall designate one or more persons
+whose duty shall be to attend to the lowering and hoisting of
+persons into and out of such mine, and give and receive the proper
+signals, governing the movement of the cage while engaged in
+handling men. Not more than ten persons shall be lowered or hoisted
+at any one time. The lowering of persons shall begin in time for
+persons to reach their working places by hour appointed for mine to
+commence work and continue until starting time. Hoisting of persons
+shall commence at time for mine to cease work, and continue until
+all have had time to be hoisted. Persons may be hoisted at such
+other times as will not interfere with the hoisting of coal, or
+other products. No person shall be lowered into or hoisted out of a
+mine, with powder, explosives, tools or material on any cage, in the
+same shaft, and no person shall be lowered or hoisted in a vertical
+shaft in a mine car. When the vertical shaft is less than fifty feet
+in depth, and a stairway approved by the district inspector of mines
+is not provided, the owner, lessee or agent shall be required to
+lower or hoist persons, as above prescribed, but when such stairway
+is provided, the hoisting of persons shall not be required.
+
+
+Sec. 930. [=Owner, lessee or agent shall provide second opening.=]
+The owner, lessee or agent of a mine shall not employ or permit any
+person to work therein except as hereinafter provided, unless to
+every seam worked in such mine there are at least two openings,
+separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in
+breadth at any point, by which distinct means of ingress and egress
+are always available to the persons therein employed. Such openings
+need not belong to the same mine so long as the persons employed
+therein have safe, ready and available means of ingress and egress,
+by not less than two openings, provided, however, that no air shaft
+with a ventilating furnace at the bottom be designated or used as a
+means of ingress or egress. The provisions of this section shall not
+apply to opening a new mine while being worked for the purpose of
+making the second opening and the communication therewith, and the
+making of the landing or bottom and extending of the main entries
+one hundred feet while such communication is being made; to a mine
+in which the second opening has become unavailable from any cause
+while said second opening is being restored or another is being
+made; nor to a mine in which the second opening has become
+unavailable by reason of the final robbing of the pillars previous
+to abandonment, so long as not more than twenty persons in either
+case are employed therein at one time.
+
+
+[=Fire protection to shafts.=] At each mine at which the only means
+of egress is by vertical shaft, the owner, lessee or agent shall
+provide adequate fire protection to secure the safety of such shaft,
+or shafts, and, when but one shaft is the only available means of
+egress, shall keep in attendance a competent person at all times
+while persons are inside of such mine. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 931. [=Separate traveling ways.=] The owner, lessee or agent of
+a mine shall provide and maintain, in safe condition for the purpose
+provided, two separate and distinct traveling ways from the interior
+workings of the mine, each of which shall be available to not less
+than one opening to the surface. One of such traveling ways may be
+designated by such owner, lessee or agent as the principal traveling
+way. One of such traveling ways may be designated as the escapement
+way. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit such owner,
+lessee or agent from designating more than one principal traveling
+way, or more than one escapement way, so long as the provisions
+hereof are complied with.
+
+
+[=Traveling ways and refuge holes.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a
+mine worked by shaft, shall provide and keep free from obstruction,
+a traveling or passage way from one side of the shaft bottom to the
+other. Slopes and mechanical haulage ways used as traveling ways by
+persons employed in a mine shall be made of a sufficient width to
+give not less than three feet of space between the rib and adjacent
+rail of track to permit persons to pass moving cars with safety. If
+found impracticable to make such slopes or mechanical haulage ways
+of sufficient width as provided, refuge holes not less than six feet
+in width and clearing the adjacent rail of the track not less than
+four feet, and not more than sixty feet apart, shall be made on one
+side of the slope or mechanical haulage way and whitewashed. The
+refuge holes shall be kept free from obstruction, and the roof and
+sides made secure. (Sec. 932, 959; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 932. [=Detached locomotive from moving train. Traveling way
+where locomotive is detached.=] At a mine, or in any part thereof,
+where a locomotive is detached from a moving train of cars for the
+purpose of dropping such cars past the locomotive, and the haulage
+way at such point is designated as the principal traveling way, a
+traveling way, not less than three feet wide and separated from the
+track by a pillar of coal or substantial fence, shall be provided at
+one side of that portion of the track from where the locomotive will
+be detached to the switch of the siding. Such traveling way shall be
+made on the same side of the track as the refuge holes. In no case
+shall a locomotive be detached from a train of moving cars, for the
+purpose of making a drop thereof, more than one hundred feet from
+the switch of the siding. (Sec. 931, 959; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+[=Additional means of egress when inundation is probable.=] At any
+mine where there is a stream or body of water on the surface, or in
+the workings of a mine, at a higher level, which is likely to break
+through into such mine and inundate either the traveling or
+escapement way of such mine, so as to prevent the egress of persons
+employed therein, the owner, lessee or agent, shall, upon the
+written order of the chief inspector of mines, provide and maintain
+an additional opening by means of which such persons may escape
+without using the traveling or escapement way likely to be
+inundated. (Sec. 950; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 933. [=Duties of owner, lessee or agent relating to supplying
+timber.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a mine shall keep an
+adequate supply of suitable timber constantly on hand, and deliver
+to the working place of each miner, the props of approximate length,
+caps and other timbers necessary to securely prop the roof thereof:
+Such props, caps, and other timbers, shall be delivered in mine cars
+at point where the miner receives his empty cars, or unloaded at the
+entrance to the room. (Sec. 953, 956; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 934. [=Provisions for persons injured at mines.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine at, in or around which, more than ten
+persons are employed, shall furnish for each thirty-five men so
+employed a properly constructed stretcher, a woolen blanket, a
+waterproof blanket, a sufficient quantity of bandages and linen and
+such other necessary requisites for use in case of accident as may
+from time to time be prescribed by the industrial commission of
+Ohio. At mines generating fire-damp so as to be detected by a safety
+lamp, a sufficient quantity of olive or linseed oil shall be kept
+for use in emergencies. It shall be the duty of each mine foreman to
+keep in a safe and dry place in the territory over which he has
+charge such stretchers, woolen and waterproof blankets and other
+supplies. He shall care for the same and keep them in a dry and
+sanitary condition always ready for use. (Sec. 907, 921, 940, 951;
+Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 934-1. [=Owner, lessee or agent shall provide and maintain wash
+room.=] Every owner, operator, lessee or agent of a coal mine, where
+ten or more persons are employed, shall provide and keep in repair a
+wash room, convenient to the principal mine entrance, adequate for
+the accommodation of the employes, for the purpose of washing and
+changing their clothes when entering and returning from the mine.
+Such wash room shall be properly lighted and heated, supplied with
+warm and cold water and adequate and proper facilities for washing
+purposes.
+
+
+Sec. 934-1a. [=Penalty.=] Whoever, being the owner, operator, lessee
+or agent of a coal mine where ten or more persons are employed,
+fails or neglects, after ninety days from the taking effect of this
+act, to comply with the provisions of section 934-1 of the General
+Code, or violates any of the provisions thereof, shall be fined not
+less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
+
+(This act became effective June 16, 1921.) (109 O.L. 22.)
+
+
+Sec. 934-2. [=Owner, lessee or agent shall install telephone
+system.=] Every owner, operator, lessee or agent of a coal mine,
+where twenty or more persons are employed, shall install, and
+maintain in efficient working condition, a telephone connecting each
+main switch of such mine with an outside telephone so connected and
+maintained as to permit communication with persons outside of the
+mine with persons on the main switch or switches or other points
+inside of the mine that may be designated by the district mine
+inspector.
+
+
+Sec. 934-3. [=Penalty.=] Whoever, being the owner, operator, lessee
+or agent of a coal mine, where twenty or more persons are employed,
+fails or neglects, after six months from the taking effect of this
+act, to comply with the provisions of section 934-2 of the General
+Code, or violates any of the provisions thereof, shall be fined not
+less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
+
+(This act became effective June 22, 1921.) (109 O.L. 48-49.)
+
+
+Sec. 935. [=Owner or lessee shall make map of mine.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine having an excavation of fifteen thousand
+cubic yards, or more, shall cause to be made, on a scale of not less
+than two hundred feet per inch, an accurate map thereof, which shall
+show the following: The boundary lines and names of the owners of
+the surface of each tract under which excavation is made, and for
+not less than five hundred feet contiguous thereto, and under which
+excavations are likely to be made during the ensuing year, together
+with all streams and bodies of standing water; the township and
+county lines coming within the limits of such map, with the name of
+each plainly marked close to and parallel with such lines; the
+title, the name or number of the mine, or both, the township and
+county in which located; the section lines, with the number of each,
+marked plainly within the sections; the location of the mine
+openings, railroad tracks, public highways, oil and gas wells,
+magazines and buildings, and plainly marked with name of each; the
+location and extent of the excavations and connection with the
+surface survey; the direction of the air current, or air currents by
+arrows; the location and extent, so far as known or obtainable, of
+the excavation of any other mine or mines within the limits of the
+map; the boundary lines of the tracts of coal owned or leased within
+the limits of the map; the elevation of the floor of the excavation,
+above mean tide at Sandy Hook, at or near the boundary line or lines
+of the coal owned or leased where the coal is adjacent to coal owned
+by a person, firm or corporation, other than the owner or lessee of
+such mine, and where the excavations of such mine cease or may be
+approached by another mine, at points not exceeding three hundred
+feet apart, and referenced to some permanent monument near the main
+opening of such mine, and shown on the map and plainly marked bench
+mark, with the elevation of same. (Sec. 904, 917, 936, 937; Penalty,
+Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 936. [=Addition to map, and certificate of engineer and
+mine-foreman.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a mine shall cause to
+be made, a map or an addition to the next previous map thereof,
+annually, and semi-annually if so directed in writing by the chief
+inspector of mines, showing the excavations and the information
+required by the preceding section, to date of survey. The map, or
+maps, required by this and the preceding section, and any addition
+thereto, shall have the certificate of the engineer making same, and
+of the mine-foreman in charge of the mine at the time of the survey,
+acknowledged before, a notary public or justice of the peace,
+thereon in the following form:
+
+
+    I, the undersigned, hereby certify that this map is correct,
+    and shows all the information required by section nine
+    hundred and thirty-five of the General Code, and covers the
+    period ending ..............................................
+
+                                   .............................
+                                                       Engineer.
+
+    Acknowledged before me a ...................... this
+    .............. day of ......................................
+
+                                   .............................
+
+
+    I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am a mine-foreman
+    at the mine represented by this map, and to the best of my
+    knowledge and belief the same correctly represents the
+    excavations of the mine for the period ending
+    ............................................................
+
+                                   .............................
+                                                   Mine-Foreman.
+
+    Acknowledged before me a ....................... this
+    ................ day of ....................................
+
+                                   .............................
+
+(Sec. 904, 917, 937; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 937. [=Owner, lessee or agent shall file map of abandoned mine
+with county recorder and chief inspector of mines.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine, before the pillars are drawn previous to
+the abandonment of a mine, or any part thereof, shall cause to be
+made a correct map of such mine, or part thereof, showing its area
+and workings to the day of the abandonment; the pillars drawn
+previous to abandonment; and file such map within ninety days after
+the abandonment of such mine, in the office of the Recorder of the
+county where such mine is located, and with the chief inspector of
+mines at his office. Such map shall have attached thereto the usual
+certificate of the mining engineer making it, and the mine-foreman
+in charge of the underground workings of the mine, and such owner,
+lessee or agent shall pay to the Recorder for filing such map, a fee
+of fifty cents. (Sec. 921.)
+
+
+[=Copy of map to be filed with chief inspector.=] The owner, lessee
+or agent of a mine shall keep at the office thereof, open to the
+inspection of the chief inspector of mines, and the district
+inspector of mines, a copy of the latest map of such mine, with any
+addition thereto, and shall furnish a copy thereto to the chief
+inspector of mines at his office. (Sec. 904, 917, 935, 936; Penalty,
+Sec. 976.)
+
+
+=Precaution when approaching abandoned mine.=
+
+
+Sec. 938. Whenever any working place of a mine approaches within one
+hundred feet of the abandoned workings of another mine, as indicated
+by an accurate survey, or while driving any working place within a
+distance of one hundred feet thereof, and such abandoned, mine
+cannot be explored, or when same contains fire-damp, or water which
+may inundate such working place, the mine-foreman shall not permit
+such working place to be advanced until a drill hole has been
+extended not less than twelve feet in the center of such working
+place, and a flank hole not less than twelve feet extended on each
+rib, starting at the working place after taking out each cut or
+crossing. Whenever the limits of the workings of an abandoned mine
+are not known by actual survey, the above rule shall apply whenever
+any working place approaches within one hundred and fifty feet of
+the supposed limits of such abandoned mine. In addition to the
+precautions provided for in this act when approaching or working
+parallel with such an abandoned mine, the owner, lessee or agent
+shall, upon the demand of the chief inspector or district inspector
+of mines, provide competent shot firers to do the shot firing in all
+the working places advancing or running parallel with such abandoned
+mine; the shot firing to be done when all other workmen are out of
+the mine. The chief inspector or district inspector of mines shall
+order shot firers at any mine when in their judgment the safety of
+property or employes require same. (103 O.L. 500.)
+
+
+Sec. 939. [=Notice must be sent to chief inspector in certain
+cases.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a mine shall give notice to
+the chief inspector of mines in the following cases: When a change
+occurs in the name of the mine, in the name of the owner, lessee or
+agent thereof, or in the officers of an incorporated company owning
+or operating such mine; when a working is commenced for the opening
+of a new shaft, slope or mine; when a mine is abandoned, or the
+working thereof discontinued; when the working of a mine is
+commenced, after an abandonment or discontinuance thereof for a
+period of more than three months; when the pillars of a mine are
+about to be removed or robbed; when a squeeze, crush, or fire
+occurs, or a dangerous body of gas is found, or any cause or change
+that may seem to affect the safety of persons employed therein.
+(Sec. 940; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 940. [=Notice of accidents.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a
+mine at which loss of life occurs by accident, shall give notice
+thereof, by telegram, forthwith, to the office of the chief
+inspector of mines, and to the coroner of the county in which such
+accident occurs; and, within twenty-four hours next after loss of
+life or personal injury has occurred, the owner, lessee or agent of
+the mine shall send to the chief inspector of mines a report in
+writing, of the accident, specifying the character and cause
+thereof, the names of the persons killed or injured, and the nature
+of the injuries. If a personal injury thereafter results in the
+death of the person injured, as soon as such death comes to his
+knowledge, the owner, lessee or agent shall give notice thereof
+forthwith, in writing, to the chief inspector of mines, and to the
+coroner of the county in which such accident occurred. (Sec. 907,
+921, 934, 951; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+[=Return of owner, lessee or agent.=] The owner, lessee or agent of
+a mine, shall, on or before the thirty-first day of January of each
+year, send to the office of the chief inspector of mines, upon
+blanks furnished by him, a correct return, specifying with respect
+to the year ending on the preceding thirty-first of December, the
+quantity of coal mined, and the number of persons ordinarily
+employed at, in, and around such mine, distinguishing the persons
+below and above ground, and give such other information as required
+by such blanks. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 941. [=Test weights to be provided.=] The owner, lessee or
+agent of a coal mine, at which the earnings of ten or more persons
+depend upon the weights of coal mined, shall provide and keep
+accessible for the purpose of testing the weigh scales as provided
+elsewhere in this act, the following standard test weights, properly
+sealed: Where the coal mined is weighed upon hopper or pan scales,
+two standard test weights of fifty pounds each; where the coal mined
+is weighed upon railroad track scales, ten standard test weights of
+fifty pounds each. (Sec. 910.)
+
+
+[=Owner, lessee or agent shall provide safety lamps.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine generating fire-damp, so as to be detected
+by a safety lamp, shall keep on hand in proper condition for use,
+not less than four approved safety lamps, and upon request of the
+district inspector of mines, shall provide such additional safety
+lamps as in his judgment may be required to meet any probable
+emergency.
+
+
+[=Owner, lessee or agent shall provide shields on mining machines.=]
+The owner, lessee or agent of a mine, shall provide and maintain a
+sufficient shield on each mining machine used in such mine, as may
+be authorized by the chief inspector of mines, or the district
+inspector of mines, for the protection of those employed in
+operating same. (Sec. 957; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=SIGNAL CODE.=
+
+
+Sec. 942. [=Signals at mines, how conducted; devices to be used.=]
+At each mine operated by shaft, the means of signaling to and from
+the bottom man, the top man, and the engineer shall consist of a
+tube, or tubes, or wire encased in wood or iron pipes, through which
+signals shall be communicated by electricity, compressed air, or
+other devices. The following signals are provided for use at mines
+where signals are required:
+
+
+=SIGNAL CODE.=
+
+
+=From the Bottom to the Top.=
+
+
+[=One ring or whistle.=] One ring or whistle from the bottom to the
+top shall signify to hoist coal or the empty cage, and also to stop
+either when in motion.
+
+
+[=Two rings or whistles.=] Two rings or whistles shall signify to
+lower cage.
+
+
+[=Three rings or whistles.=] Three rings or whistles shall signify
+that men are coming up; when return signal is received from the
+engineer, men will get on the cage, and cager shall ring or whistle
+one to start.
+
+
+[=Four rings or whistles.=] Four rings or whistles shall signify to
+hoist slowly, implying danger.
+
+
+[=Five rings or whistles.=] Five rings or whistles shall signify
+accident in the mine and a call for a stretcher.
+
+
+=From the Top to the Bottom.=
+
+
+[=One ring or whistle.=] One ring or whistle from the top to the
+bottom shall signify: All ready, get on cage.
+
+
+[=Two rings or whistles.=] Two rings or whistles shall signify: Send
+away empty cage.
+
+
+[=Addition to code, when allowed; code must be posted at top and
+bottom.=] Provided, that the management of any mine, may, with the
+consent of the district inspector of mines, add to this code of
+signals in his discretion, for the purpose of increasing its
+efficiency, or of promoting the safety of the men in said mine, but
+whatever code may be established and in use at any mine must be
+furnished by the mining department, conspicuously posted at the top
+and at the bottom and in the engine room, for the information and
+instruction of all persons concerned.
+
+
+[=Emergency signal in shafts.=] At each mine where persons are
+hoisted in a vertical shaft, an emergency signal shall be provided
+in such manner that persons can give signals from the cage, in the
+event that cage is stopped between the top and bottom landings.
+(Sec. 929; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 943. [=Lights in mines.=] The owner, lessee or agent of each
+mine shall provide an enclosed lard or signal oil lamp or lantern or
+incandescent electric light at such point or points in the mine as
+may be necessary for the proper safety of persons, especially at the
+top of extreme grades. No open light shall be used for fixed or
+stationary purposes; no open torches or lamps larger than the lamps
+provided for in this act for use as open lights, and no coal oil or
+kerosene lamp or lanterns, shall be used in a mine. This, however,
+shall not prevent the use of a torch or blow-torch for mechanical
+purposes other than illumination. (Sec. 961.)
+
+
+[=Light or signal on locomotives and trains.=] The owner, lessee or
+agent of a mine at which locomotives are used for hauling the coal,
+shall keep a light on the front end of the locomotive when it is in
+use, and when the locomotive is run ahead of the trip, and the
+trip-rider is not required to ride the rear car of the trip, a
+signal, light or marker, approved by the district inspector of
+mines, shall be carried on the rear end of the trip to indicate when
+the trip has passed. Cars shall not be pushed ahead of the
+locomotive where it can be avoided, and when cars are run ahead of
+the locomotive a light shall be carried on the front end of the trip
+and the cars shall not be moved at a speed greater than four miles
+per hour. When rope haulage is used, an enclosed light shall be
+carried on the front end of each train so hauled. When a mechanical
+haulage trip passes through an automatic door having no attendant
+other than persons in charge of such trip, the trip-rider shall be
+required to ride the rear car of the trip while passing though such
+door, and see that it closes after the trip passes through. (Sec.
+923, 958; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 944. [=Employment of minors.=] The owner, lessee or agent of a
+mine shall not employ, or permit to work therein, any boy under
+fourteen years of age; nor employ, or permit to work therein, any
+boy under fifteen years of age during a term of the public schools,
+in the district in which he resides. (Sec. 912, 953.) (See Child
+Labor Law, Sec. 13002, page ----).
+
+    "The provisions of Section 912, 944 and 953 G.C. do not
+    permit the employment of children under 16 years of age in,
+    about or in connection with any mine. Such employment is
+    governed by the provisions of Section 13002 G.C."
+
+    Opinion No. 885 office of the Attorney General, State of
+    Ohio, December 21, 1917.
+
+
+[=Removal of combustible matter.=] Whenever an entry or air-way
+becomes so dry that the air becomes charged with dust, the owner,
+lessee or agent shall cause such entry or air-way to be sprinkled,
+and all accumulated matter, explosive in its nature, shall be
+removed from the mine. (Sec. 956.)
+
+
+[=Quantity of oil in mine restricted.=] No oil shall be taken into
+or stored in a mine except as may be required to be opened for use
+within two days thereafter; and in no case shall more than two
+barrels of oil be kept at any one place, and not more than ten
+barrels of oil shall be had in a mine at any one time. All waste oil
+and empty barrels shall be promptly removed from the mine. (Sec.
+974, 975.)
+
+
+[=Location of boilers at mine.=] The permanent boilers used for
+generating steam, and the buildings containing the boilers, shall
+not be nearer than sixty feet to any mine opening or to a building
+or inflammable structure connected with or surrounding such opening.
+(Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 945. [=Relating to underground stables.=] The owner, lessee or
+agent of a coal mine at which the live stock is kept underground,
+shall observe the following: The stable or stall shall be separated
+from the main inlet and main outlet air-courses by not less than
+twenty feet of solid strata or a solid wall of brick or masonry not
+less than twelve inches in thickness, except at two doors not more
+than five feet wide, which shall be made of steel plate not less
+than one-quarter inch in thickness and hinged to the solid strata or
+masonry without the use of wood; the ventilation for the stable
+shall be taken from main inlet air-course by a by-pass or separate
+split and returned to the main outlet air-course so that the air
+passing the stables will not enter the inward working places of the
+mine, and arranged so that the by-pass or split can readily be
+closed at both inlet and outlet sides of the stable by steel doors
+hinged to the solid strata or masonry without the use of wood; the
+construction of the stable inside shall be free from pine or light
+lumber; shall be of brick or masonry as much as practicable, and any
+timber used shall be of hardwood of a cross section not less than
+three by six inches; no hay or straw shall be taken into the mine or
+stable unless same be compressed into compact bales, and then only
+from time to time in such quantities as will be required for two
+days' use; no greater quantity of hay or straw shall be stored in
+the mine or stable, and when such is taken into the mine it shall be
+taken inside the stable at once; the lights used in the stable shall
+be incandescent electric lamps, placed so that same will not be
+injured by the stock or by persons required to enter the stable, or
+lanterns of railroad type suitable for using lard or signal oil, and
+only such oil shall be used therein; all refuse and waste shall be
+promptly removed from the stable and the mine, and shall not be
+allowed to accumulate. Stables constructed underground after the
+passage and approval of this act, shall be located not nearer than
+one hundred and fifty feet of any opening to the mine used as a
+means of ingress or egress. (Sec. 955, 960; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 946. [=Relating to use of gasoline in mines.=] No gasoline,
+naphtha or kerosene engine shall be used in a mine, except for
+operating pumping machinery where electric, compressed air or steam
+power is not available or cannot be transmitted to the pump, and
+then the owner, lessee or agent shall observe the following: Notice
+shall be made to the chief inspector of mines before installing, and
+the installation and operation shall be subject to his approval: No
+wood or inflammable material shall be permitted nearer than
+twenty-five feet of the engine: The supply tank from which the
+gasoline, naphtha or kerosene is fed to the engine, shall be of
+metal, with a suitable screw cap opening, fitted with a gasket, so
+as to make the tank air-tight and prevent the escape of gas into the
+atmosphere, and the tank kept free from leaks: the gasoline, naphtha
+or kerosene shall be fed from a tank to the carburetor or mixer by
+metal tubes securely connected so as to reduce the possibility of
+leaks to a minimum: The exhaust from the engine shall be conducted
+by means of metal pipes into the return air current, so that the
+fumes of combustion will not enter the workings of the mine where
+the men are required to work, or be conducted in an upcast shaft or
+slope not used as a means of ingress or egress, or through metal
+pipes to the surface: At no time shall there be more than five
+gallons of gasoline, naphtha or kerosene in the supply tank; at no
+time shall more than five gallons of same be taken into the mine at
+any one time, and at no time shall there be more than ten gallons in
+the mine, including that in the supply tank: No gasoline, naphtha or
+kerosene shall be taken into the mine except in metallic cans, with
+a screw cap opening at the top, fitted with a suitable gasket: No
+package or can, or the supply tank of an engine, containing
+gasoline, naphtha or kerosene, shall be opened until ready to make
+the transfer from the package or can to the supply tank, and in
+transferring, a funnel shall be used so as to avoid spilling the
+gasoline, naphtha or kerosene, and the cap on the supply tank shall
+be immediately closed: In no case shall the package, can, or the
+supply tank, be opened, with any open light or other thing
+containing fire within twenty-five feet of same. (Penalty, Sec.
+976.)
+
+
+Sec. 947. [=Relating to use of electricity in mines.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a mine in which electricity is used as a means of
+power, shall observe the following in the application thereof:
+
+
+[=Trolley wires.=] All trolley wires shall be carried at least six
+inches outside of and parallel with the track rail on the side the
+trolley wire is located. When regular height is less than six feet
+six inches from top of rail, the lower side of trolley wire must not
+exceed six inches from the roof or cross-timber with hangers now in
+use, with hangers not to exceed twenty-five feet between centers,
+and the tension sufficient to keep all wires from sagging and to
+prevent trolley wheel from coming in contact with roof or
+cross-timbers. All new hangers hereafter installed shall not exceed
+five inches in depth from lower side of the trolley wire to the roof
+or cross-timbers.
+
+
+[=Wires crossing traveling ways.=] All trolley and positive feed
+wires crossing places where persons or animals are required to
+travel, shall be safely guarded or protected from such persons or
+animals coming in contact therewith.
+
+
+[=Wires opposite rooms and refuge holes.=] All trolley and positive
+feed wires shall be placed on opposite side of track from refuge
+holes or necks of rooms.
+
+
+[=Bare wires; when not to extend into working places.=] No trolley
+wire shall be extended into or maintained in any room while being
+used as a working place; no trolley or feed wire shall be extended
+into any entry beyond the outside corner of the last breakthrough.
+
+
+[=Switches and circuit-breakers.=] Switches or circuit-breakers
+shall be provided to control the current at the mine, and at all
+important points in the mine.
+
+
+[=Machine feed wires and insulators.=] All machine feed wires shall
+be placed as near the rib and roof or cross-timbers as practicable;
+the positive wire to be carried not to exceed three inches from the
+rib and roof or cross-timbers, measured at the insulators, which
+shall be so placed as to keep the wire at least six inches outside
+of the track rail on the side the wire is located. Insulators shall
+be placed not exceeding fifty feet apart, and all wires shall be
+carried so that same will be not less than six inches outside of the
+track rail at any point on the side the wire is located. All
+positive wires shall be carried on glass or porcelain insulators, or
+insulators equally efficient. All negative wires shall be carried on
+suitable fixtures, and when carried in same entry as the positive
+wire, shall be carried on the same side of the entry as the positive
+wire, and as close to it as practicable. When machine or feed wires
+are carried in same entry as trolley wire, they shall be placed on
+the same side as the trolley wire, between trolley wire and rib.
+Nothing in the foregoing shall require negative wires being carried
+in same entry with positive wire.
+
+
+[=Wires in shafts or slopes.=] When necessary to carry wires down
+shafts or slopes used as travelways, the wires must be thoroughly
+cased or protected, so that persons cannot be shocked therefrom.
+
+
+[=Wires; how placed in rooms.=] Positive machine feed wires, when
+extended into rooms, shall be placed not nearer than four feet of
+the track, where the room is of sufficient width, and the same shall
+only be connected to the positive wire or wires on the entry while
+in actual use. The material used for making such connection shall be
+of sufficient length to reach across the entry, and when same is
+disconnected, it shall be kept with the machine operating at such
+point or working place. No electric wires shall be extended into any
+room unless a one hundred and fifty foot cable will not reach the
+face of the room, and then not beyond the outside corner of the last
+breakthrough.
+
+
+[=Protection of terminal ends.=] All terminal ends of positive wires
+shall be guarded so as to prevent persons inadvertently coming in
+contact therewith.
+
+
+[=Connection of negative wires, pipe lines and track. Bonding of
+track.=] The bonded track, the negative wires and metallic pipe
+lines, when coming near each other, may be connected together at
+intervals not exceeding five hundred feet, and any track used as the
+return or earth system shall be properly bonded. In no case shall a
+pipe line, or any part thereof, be used exclusively as the return,
+and when connected to the earth system, the negative wire or bonded
+track shall be of ample capacity, exclusive of the pipe line, to
+carry the current.
+
+
+[=Trolley wires; how erected.=] The trolley wire shall be carried
+upon hangers or other fixtures which will properly insulate it from
+contact with the roof or other substances, and so the trolley wheel
+can trail without the necessity of being constantly attended for
+that purpose, and no trolley shall be run on any wire not so
+carried.
+
+
+[=Locomotive must not be operated improperly.=] No locomotive shall
+be operated by means of a person holding and sliding upon or
+frequently making contact with the positive wire with any device
+attached to the cable as a substitute for a trolley, but these
+provisions shall not prohibit the operation of a locomotive by means
+of a cable without the use of the trolley, provided the cable be
+connected to and disconnected from the positive wire when the
+locomotive is not in motion.
+
+
+[=Protection to machine cable crossing entry track.=] Means shall be
+provided by which machine runners may readily carry the machine
+cable from the machine to the feed wires on one side of the entry,
+either under or over the track rails, in the entry where such wires
+are located, and so the cable will not come in contact with such
+track rails, thereby reducing the danger of shock to persons or
+animals required to travel such entry, to the minimum. (Sec. 911,
+948; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 948. [=Voltage at mines hereafter electrically equipped.=] The
+owner, lessee or agent of a mine at which electricity with a
+pressure or potential of more than three hundred and twenty-five
+volts, or alternating current, is used, shall in addition to the
+provisions of the preceding section, observe the following:
+
+
+[=Limit to voltage in or about working places.=] At each mine
+equipped with electric power after the passage and approval of this
+act, the current used to operate gathering locomotives, mining
+machines, shearing machines, drills and other machinery, used in or
+about the working places of the mine, shall not exceed in pressure
+or potential, three hundred and twenty-five volts, direct current,
+as shown at the nearest switchboard, and the wires conducting the
+power from the nearest switchboard shall not carry a higher pressure
+or potential.
+
+
+[=Relating to alternating current.=] At each mine equipped with
+electric power alternating current may be used to convert
+alternating current to direct current, and to operate motors
+permanently installed above ground and in underground substations,
+or buildings especially prepared for them, in a manner subject to
+the approval of the chief and district mine inspectors, but no wires
+carrying alternating current shall be used underground except same
+be carried in an entry or passageway where persons and animals are
+not permitted to travel.
+
+
+[=Relating to higher voltage mines hereafter equipped.=] At each
+mine equipped with electric power after the passage and approval of
+this act, when the current used to operate haulage locomotives,
+pumps and other machinery not located in or about the working places
+of the mine, is of a pressure or potential in excess of three
+hundred and twenty-five volts, direct current, the entry or passage
+way where such wires are carried shall not be designated or
+permitted to be used as the principal traveling way, and when
+designated or used as the escapement way, the wires shall be
+protected so that persons required to travel near same in
+emergencies will not inadvertently come in contact therewith. No
+pressure in excess of six hundred and fifty volts at the switchboard
+shall be used underground.
+
+
+[=Relating to higher voltage, mines heretofore equipped.=] At each
+mine equipped with electric power prior to the passage and approval
+of this act, where the pressure or potential is in excess of three
+hundred and twenty-five volts, direct current, or where alternating
+current is used, and the conditions surrounding the use of same are
+such, in the opinion of the chief inspector of mines, that the
+provisions of the preceding section do not provide the required
+protection from shock to persons employed therein, such additional
+safeguards shall be employed as may be required by the chief
+inspector of mines, and the district inspector of mines, jointly.
+(See. 911, 947; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 949. [=Relating to construction of new mines.=] Any person,
+firm or corporation beginning the opening of a mine, whether such
+person, firm or corporation be the owner, lessee or agent of the
+property upon which such mine is located, or not, shall observe the
+following in the construction of such mine: If the opening be a
+slope or vertical shaft, no explosive used therein shall be fired by
+means of a squib or fuse after the same is extended more than
+twenty-five feet from the surface, and thereafter and until the
+slope or shaft reaches the seam, and the entry or landing be
+extended beyond a breakthrough or other place driven at right angles
+thereto, no explosive shall be fired except by means of an electric
+battery operated from the surface after all persons are on the
+surface. A substantial structure to sustain sheave wheels or
+pulleys, ropes and loads, shall be provided, and if the opening be a
+shaft, the same shall be placed at a height of not less than twenty
+feet above the tipping place. A landing platform shall be arranged
+in such manner that no material can fall into the shaft while the
+bucket is being emptied, and in no case shall the shaft be sunk to a
+depth of more than thirty feet without such structures. If the
+bucket used for hoisting material is to land on a truck, the track
+on which said truck is operated, and the platform, shall be so
+constructed that material cannot fall into the shaft. Rock and coal
+shall not be hoisted from a shaft or slope except in a bucket or
+cage attached to the rope by a safety hook, clevis, or other safe
+attachment, and the bucket or cage securely locked so that same
+cannot tip or empty while being hoisted. The rope shall be fastened
+to the side of the drum, and not less than three coils of rope shall
+always remain on the drum. After the shaft reaches a depth of one
+hundred feet, the same shall be provided with guides and guide
+attachments, applied in such a manner as to prevent the bucket from
+swinging while being lowered or hoisted, and said guides and guide
+attachments shall be maintained at a distance of not more than
+seventy-five feet from the bottom of the shaft. The sides of all
+shafts shall be properly secured for safety, and no loose rock or
+material shall be allowed to remain on any timber in the shaft after
+each blast. All loose timber, tools, and materials, shall be kept
+away from the top of the shaft, so as to reduce the danger of same
+falling down the shaft. Where explosive gas is encountered, the
+person in charge shall see that the shaft or slope is examined
+before each shift of men enter to work, and before the men descend
+after each blast. Provision shall be made for the proper ventilation
+of the slope, or shaft, so that persons working therein will have
+the necessary air. An efficient brake shall be attached to each drum
+of an engine used in hoisting material and persons, and all
+machinery, ropes and chains connected therewith shall be carefully
+examined once each twelve hours. Not more than four persons shall be
+lowered or hoisted in or on a bucket at one time, and no person
+shall be permitted to ride on a loaded bucket. The bucket used in
+lowering or hoisting persons shall be equipped with proper safety
+devices, so that same cannot become detached from the rope or cable,
+and cannot tip or turn upside down while being so used. The chief
+inspector of mines, and the district inspector of mines, shall have
+jurisdiction over such mine when the shaft or slope reaches a depth
+of twenty-five feet, and such person, firm or corporation shall
+comply with any order issued by either or both of them with respect
+to the safety of persons employed. Other than the provisions herein,
+the provisions of this act shall not apply to the opening of a mine
+until such opening reaches the seam, and the entry or landing be
+extended beyond a breakthrough, or other place driven at right
+angles thereto. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 950. [=Additional openings; when and how provided for.=] When
+in the opinion of the district inspector of mines together with the
+chief inspector of mines, the ways and means of egress in any mine
+under their jurisdiction, from the interior working places to the
+surface, as provided for in this act, are inadequate as a safe and
+ready means of escape in case of probable emergency, and there are
+extra hazards of a permanent nature that cannot be removed either
+from long distance from the interior working places to the exterior
+openings for egress, from danger of fire at any point, or any other
+cause that probably will result in the entombment of persons working
+therein, they shall jointly give notice in writing to the owner,
+lessee or agent of such mine, and require an additional opening by
+shaft, slope or drift, from the surface; the location of the
+interior end of such shaft, slope, or drift, to be sufficiently near
+the interior working places in that part of the mine where such
+persons are endangered, to afford such persons safe and ready means
+of escape, free from such hazards. (Sec. 932; Penalty Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO SUPERINTENDENT, MINE-FOREMAN AND OVER-SEER.=
+
+
+Sec. 951. [=Duties of superintendent.=] The superintendent in charge
+of a mine shall see that the provisions of this act are carried out,
+and shall, in case of an accident resulting in the death of or
+injury to persons, carefully investigate such accident, and report
+to the chief inspector of mines, as provided for in this act, and to
+the owner, lessee or agent of the mine. He shall give such other
+notice to the chief inspector of mines as required by the provisions
+of this act, and shall co-operate with the mine-foreman and direct
+him as may be necessary in securing a compliance with the provisions
+of this act, and the safety of the persons employed in the mine.
+Nothing herein shall prohibit the superintendent from fulfilling the
+duties of mine-foreman. (Sec. 940, 953, 962, 965; Penalty, Sec.
+976.)
+
+
+Sec. 952. [=Duties of mine foreman.=] The mine-foreman shall attend
+personally to his duties in the mine, carry out all the provisions
+set forth in this act, see that the regulations prescribed for each
+class of workmen under his charge are carried out in the strictest
+manner possible, and see that any deviations from any of them are
+promptly adjusted. (Sec. 953, 965.)
+
+
+[=When ventilation stops.=] In case of accident to a ventilating
+fan, or its machinery, whereby the ventilation of the mine would be
+seriously interrupted, he shall promptly order the men to
+immediately withdraw from the mine and not return to their work
+until the ventilation has been restored, and his permission to enter
+is given; if at a mine which generates fire-damp, he shall not order
+them to return until the mine has been thoroughly examined by him,
+or his assistant, and reported to be safe. (Sec. 922, 923, 924.)
+
+
+[=Dangerous places fenced.=] He shall see that all dangerous places
+are properly fenced off, and proper danger signal boards are hung on
+such fencing that they may be plainly seen; he shall also travel all
+air-ways, and examine all the accessible openings to old workings as
+often as is necessary to insure their safety. (Sec. 925.)
+
+
+[=Examination of working places.=] He shall examine each working
+place, or have it examined by his assistant, at least once each
+alternate day that persons are or should be at work therein and
+oftener, when, in his judgment, the circumstances require. He shall
+instruct pick miners and machine runners regarding the width of
+working places. (Sec. 956.)
+
+
+Sec. 953. [=When working place is unsafe.=] When a working place
+becomes unsafe from any cause, he shall order the person or persons
+working therein, to cease mining or loading, and not to remain in
+such working place, except as may be necessary to make it safe,
+until it is made safe. (Sec. 956.)
+
+
+[=Supplying of props and timber.=] He shall see that the working
+place of each miner is kept supplied with props of approximate
+length, caps, and other timbers necessary to securely prop the roof
+thereof. When he examines a working place, he shall observe the
+condition of the roof and timbering, and instruct the workmen
+therein as to the proper method of timbering for the security of
+the roof. He shall give such instructions to drivers, motormen,
+trip-riders, and other persons, as may be necessary to keep a supply
+of timber in each working place. (Sec. 933, 956.)
+
+
+[=Miner without props or timber.=] When he finds a miner in a
+working place without the necessary props, caps or timbers to
+securely prop the roof thereof, he shall order such miner to leave
+such working place until the required timber is supplied, which he
+shall attend to promptly, and shall order that no cars be delivered
+to such miner, until timber is supplied. (Sec. 933, 956.)
+
+
+[=Measure and report of ventilation.=] He shall keep a careful watch
+over the ventilating apparatus and air-ways, and measure the
+ventilation at least once each week, at the inlet and outlet, and at
+or near the face of all entries; which measurement shall be noted on
+blanks furnished by the chief inspector of mines. On the first day
+of each month, he shall sign such blanks, properly filled with the
+actual measurements, and forward them to the chief inspector of
+mines. (Sec. 922, 923, 924, 952.)
+
+
+[=Record of boys employed.=] He shall keep a record of the boys
+under sixteen years of age employed by him, or by any other person,
+giving the name, age, place of birth, name and residence of parents,
+and character of employment. He shall require written evidence from
+the parent or guardian of each said minors, that the requirements of
+the school laws of this state have been complied with. (Sec. 912,
+944.) (See Child Labor Law, Sec. 13002.)
+
+    "The provisions of Section 912, 944 and 953 G.C. do not
+    permit the employment of children under 16 years of age in,
+    about or in connection with any mine. Such employment is
+    governed by the provisions of Section 13002 G.C."
+
+    Opinion No. 885 office of the Attorney General, State of
+    Ohio, December 21, 1917.
+
+
+[=Assistant mine-foreman.=] The duties of mine-foreman shall apply
+to assistant mine-foreman, when acting for the mine-foreman, or in
+discharging the duties thereof. (Sec. 952, 965; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 954. [=Relating to over-seer.=] The over-seer shall visit the
+working place of each inexperienced person engaged at mining or
+loading, at such intervals as provided for in this act, and instruct
+them as to their work and safety and assist them in caring for their
+safety. He shall instruct such persons not to handle or use any
+explosives except in his presence, until they have been employed in
+a mine not less than three months, and not then until he is
+satisfied that such persons are fully competent to handle and use
+same with safety. When, in his judgment, such persons require more
+frequent supervision than provided for in this act, he shall visit
+their working places as frequently as in his judgment the
+circumstances require. The foregoing shall not prohibit the
+mine-foreman from fulfilling the duties of overseer, so long as all
+the provisions of this act are complied with. (Sec. 965; Penalty,
+Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO THE STABLEMAN AND FIRE-BOSS.=
+
+
+Sec. 955. [=Duties of stableman.=] The stable man shall see that the
+provisions of this act relating to stables are carried out, and
+shall forbid persons not required by duty, to enter the stable or
+loiter in or about same, whether the stable be inside of the mine or
+on the surface. (Sec. 945, 960.)
+
+
+[=Duties of fire-boss.=] The fire-boss shall examine with a safety
+lamp each working place, whether same is in the actual course of
+working or not, the traveling ways and entrances to old workings in
+the mine every morning, not more than three hours prior to the
+appointed time for the employes to enter the mine. As evidence of
+such examination, he shall mark with chalk upon the face of the
+coal, or in some other conspicuous place, his initials and date of
+the month. If there is any standing gas discovered, he shall leave a
+danger signal across every entrance to such place.
+
+
+[=Report on blackboard.=] He shall make a report on a blackboard
+provided on the outside of the mine for that purpose, and arrange so
+the men can conveniently inspect it, showing the condition of the
+mine as to the presence of fire-damp, and indicating the place, or
+places, where present, if any is present, before he permits any
+person to enter the mine. He shall examine parts of the mine not in
+the actual course of working and available, not less than once each
+three days.
+
+
+[=Written report.=] The fire-boss shall make a written report, which
+shall be kept in the office, or some place at the mine where it can
+be seen by the mine inspector when called for. He shall see that
+every part of the mine is kept free from standing gas, and that all
+old workings are properly fenced off, as provided for in this act.
+He shall return to the mine with the miners and remain there at
+least one hour, attending to the removal of any standing gas. He
+shall examine the mine on idle days and Sundays if any men are
+required to work in any part of it, and if more than three hours
+elapse between the day turn leaving and night turn starting, the
+places to be worked by night turn must be examined by him with a
+safety lamp, and reported safe before persons go to them. (Sec. 925,
+959; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO EMPLOYES GENERALLY.=
+
+
+Sec. 956. [=Duties of miner. Examination of working place.=] Each
+miner shall examine his working place upon entering same, and shall
+not commence to mine or load until it is made safe. He shall be very
+careful to keep his working place in a safe condition at all times.
+(Sec. 952.)
+
+
+[=Shall cease work when place is dangerous.=] Should he at any time
+find his place becoming dangerous from any cause or condition, he
+shall at once cease work, and notify the mine-foreman, or assistant
+mine-foreman, of such danger, and, upon leaving such place, he shall
+place some plain warning at the entrance thereto, to warn others
+from entering into the danger, and shall not return until ordered to
+do so by the mine-foreman, or assistant mine-foreman. (Sec. 953.)
+
+
+[=Shall prop roof, etc.=] Each miner, or other person employed in a
+mine, shall securely prop the roof of the working place therein
+under his control, and shall obey any order, or orders, given by the
+superintendent or mine-foreman relating to the width of working
+places, and to the security of the mine in the part thereof where he
+is at work, and for fifteen feet back from the face of his working
+place. Such miner, or other person, shall not be held to have
+violated the provisions of this clause if the owner, lessee or agent
+fails to supply the necessary props, caps, and timbers, as provided
+for in this act. (Sec. 933, 953.)
+
+
+[=Shall not waste props, etc.=] Each miner, or other person shall
+avoid waste of props, caps, timber, or other material. When he has
+props, caps, timber, or other material unsuited for his purpose, he
+shall not cover up or destroy same, but shall place it near the
+track where it can be readily seen. (Sec. 933, 953.)
+
+
+[=Blasting when fire-damp is generating.=] He shall not fire a blast
+in any working place which is likely to generate sudden volumes of
+fire-damp, or where locked safety lamps are used, except with the
+consent of the mine-foreman, or other competent person designated by
+the mine-foreman for that purpose. (Sec. 962.)
+
+
+[=Blasting when restricted to specific times.=] At a mine where the
+firing of shots is restricted to specific times, no miner shall fire
+a shot until the time appointed for him to do so, and then only in
+such rotation as designated. (Sec. 962.)
+
+
+[=Examination after blasting.=] After each blast, he shall exercise
+great care in examining the roof and coal, and shall secure them
+safely before beginning to load coal. (Sec. 962.)
+
+
+[=Shall post after undermining.=] After the coal is undermined, he
+shall, before shooting the coal, properly post the roof of his
+working place.
+
+
+[=Must not go under draw-slate.=] When draw-slate is over the coal,
+he shall not go underneath the draw-slate until it is made safe
+from falling, by securely posting it, and he shall not remove the
+posts until the coal is removed and he is ready to take down the
+draw-slate.
+
+
+[=Shall load fine coal.=] He shall not place in the gob or refuse
+pile, or cover up, any fine coal or coal dust, but shall load same
+into cars. (Sec. 944; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 957. [=Duties of machine men.=] Machine runners and helpers
+shall use care while operating mining machines. They shall not
+operate a machine unless the shields are in place, and shall warn
+persons not engaged in the operating of a machine of the danger in
+going near the machine while it is in operation, and shall not
+permit such persons to remain near the machine while it is in
+operation. They shall examine the roof of the working place and see
+that it is safe before starting to operate the machine. They shall
+not move the machine while the cutter chain is in motion. When
+connecting the power cable to the electric wires, they shall make
+the negative or grounded connections before connecting to the
+positive, and when disconnecting the power cable, shall disconnect
+from the positive line before disconnecting the negative or
+grounded. When positive feed wires extend into rooms, they shall
+connect such wires to the positive wire on the entry before
+connecting the power cable, and as soon as the power cable is
+disconnected shall disconnect such wire from the wire on the entry.
+They shall use care that the cable does not make contact with
+metallic rails of the track, and shall avoid, where possible,
+leaving the cable in water. If they remove props which have been
+placed by the miner for the security of the roof, they shall reset
+such props as promptly as possible. (Sec. 941; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 958. [=Duties of motormen and trip-riders.=] Motormen and
+trip-riders shall use care in handling the locomotive and cars, and
+shall see that the signal or marker, as provided for, is used as
+provided, and shall be governed by the speed provided for in this
+act in handling cars.
+
+They shall not run the locomotive with the trolley ahead of the
+locomotive, except in cases where they cannot do otherwise, and then
+only at a speed of two miles per hour.
+
+They shall warn persons forbidden to ride on the locomotive or cars,
+and shall not permit such persons to ride on locomotive or cars
+contrary to the provisions of this act.
+
+
+[=Duties of trip-rider, rope haulage.=] The trip-rider in charge of
+rope haulage trips shall see that the signal light, as provided for
+in this act, is in place and in proper condition before starting
+trip.
+
+
+[=Drivers.=] Drivers shall use care in handling cars, especially
+going down extreme grades, and at junction points.
+
+
+[=Those in charge of trips of cars shall see that doors are
+closed.=] Motormen, trip-riders and drivers in charge of haulage
+trips passing through doors used as a means of directing the
+ventilation, shall see that such doors are closed promptly after the
+trip passes through. (Sec. 923, 943, 961; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 959. [=Persons must not enter mine until fire-boss reports.=]
+No person shall enter a mine generating fire-damp so as to be
+detected by a safety lamp, until the fire-boss makes a report
+outside the mine on a blackboard provided for that purpose, and
+arranged where the men can conveniently inspect it. No person shall
+go beyond a danger signal, until all standing gas discovered has
+been removed or diluted and rendered harmless by a current of air.
+(Sec. 925, 955.)
+
+
+[=Persons ordered to withdraw must not re-enter without
+permission.=] Any person being ordered by the mine-foreman to
+withdraw from the mine on account of the interruption of the
+ventilation shall not re-enter the mine until given permission to do
+so by the mine-foreman. (Sec. 952.)
+
+
+[=Not more than ten persons on a cage.=] When more than ten persons
+get on a cage or elevator to be lowered into a mine, or to be
+hoisted out of a mine, the person in charge of the lowering and
+hoisting of such persons shall order a sufficient number to get off
+to reduce the number to ten persons, and the persons so ordered
+shall immediately comply. (Sec. 929.)
+
+
+[=Employes shall not loiter.=] Each employe of a mine shall go to
+and from his place of duty by the traveling ways provided; shall not
+travel around the mine, or the buildings, tracks or machinery
+connected therewith, where duty does not require, and when not on
+duty, shall not loiter at, in, or around the mine, the buildings,
+tracks or machinery connected therewith.
+
+
+[=Intoxicants.=] No person shall go into, at, or around a mine, or
+the buildings, tracks or machinery connected therewith, while under
+the influence of intoxicants. No person shall use, carry, or have in
+his possession, at, in, or around a mine, or the buildings, tracks
+or machinery connected therewith, any intoxicants.
+
+
+[=Must not go beyond danger signal.=] No person other than the
+fire-boss shall remove or go beyond any caution board or danger
+signal placed at the entrance to any working place, or to the
+entrance to any old workings in a mine.
+
+
+Sec. 960. [=Intent to defraud.=] No person shall erase or change a
+mark of reference or monument made in connection with measurements;
+change the checks on cars; wrongfully check a car, or do any act
+with intent to defraud.
+
+
+[=Fire must not be taken into stable.=] No person shall take a
+lighted pipe, or other thing containing fire, except lanterns as
+provided for, into any stable or barn. (Sec. 945-955.)
+
+
+[=Must not obstruct airway.=] No person shall place refuse in, or
+obstruct any airway or breakthrough used as an airway.
+
+
+[=Injuries to mine by workmen and others.=] No workman, or other
+person, shall knowingly injure a water gauge, barometer, air-course,
+brattice, equipment, machinery, or live stock; obstruct or throw
+open an airway; handle or disturb any part of the machinery of the
+hoisting engine of a mine; open a door of a mine and neglect to
+close it; endanger the mine or those working therein; disobey an
+order given in pursuance of law, or do a wilful act whereby the
+lives and health of persons working therein, or the security of a
+mine, or the machinery connected therewith may be endangered.
+(Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 961. [=Persons not permitted to ride on haulage trips.=] No
+person or persons except those in charge of trips, superintendents,
+mine-foremen, electricians, machinists and blacksmiths, when
+required by their duty, shall ride on haulage trips, except where by
+mutual agreement in writing, between the owner, lessee or agent, and
+the employes, a special trip of empty cars is run for the purpose of
+taking employes into and out of the mine, or empty cars are attached
+to loaded trips, which shall not be run at a speed exceeding eight
+miles per hour. No person except a trip rider shall ride on loaded
+car or cars, and he shall ride only the front or rear end of the
+trip. (Sec. 958.)
+
+
+[=Size of lamps for open lights.=] No person, except as hereinafter
+provided for, shall use in any coal mine, any oil lamp for the
+purpose of maintaining an open light, more than two and one-half
+inches in height, with spout not more than three inches long, with
+opening not more than three-eights inch in diameter; provided,
+however, that mine-foreman, electricians, machinists, motormen,
+trip-riders, drivers, and other persons whose duties require them to
+ride on moving trips, works in main air current, or travel
+frequently from place to place, may use lamps not exceeding three
+and one-half inches in height, with spout not more than four and
+one-half inches long, with opening not more than five-eights of an
+inch in diameter. (Sec. 943; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 962. [=Handling and storing of explosives.=] No workman shall
+have at any one time more than one twenty-five pound keg of blasting
+powder in the mine, nor more than three pounds of high explosives,
+and no person shall keep blasting powder or explosives dangerously
+near the electric wire or power cable in any part of the mine where
+electric wires are in use. No blasting powder, or other explosive,
+shall be stored in any mine except as above provided.
+
+
+[=Explosives kept in boxes.=] Every person who has powder or other
+explosives in a mine shall keep same in a wooden box, or boxes,
+securely locked, and said boxes shall be kept at least five feet
+from the track, and no two powder boxes shall be kept within
+twenty-five feet of each other, nor shall blasting powder and high
+explosives be kept in the same box, and in no case shall detonating
+caps be kept in a box with blasting powder or high explosives.
+
+
+[=Fire must be kept from explosives.=] Whenever a workman is about
+to open a box, package or keg containing powder or other explosives,
+and while handling the same, he shall place and keep his lamp at
+least five feet distant from said explosives, and in such position
+that the air current cannot convey sparks to it; and no person shall
+approach nearer than five feet to any open box, keg or package
+containing powder or other explosives, or within five feet of
+another person handling such explosives, with a lighted lamp,
+lighted pipe, or other thing containing fire.
+
+
+[=Conveying of explosives.=] Blasting powder or explosives must not
+be taken into or out of a mine, or moved from place to place in a
+mine along any entry or haulway where there are electric wires,
+while the power is on such wires, except when such powder or
+explosive is conveyed in insulated cars or packages.
+
+
+[=Explosives and tools on cages or stairways.=] Powder, explosives
+and working tools shall not be taken down or up a hoisting shaft in
+a cage when men are going down or up; nor shall they be taken down
+or up a stairway used for ingress and egress of persons. (Sec. 956,
+963; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 963. [=Squibs and fuses; missed shots.=] Any workman who is
+about to fire a shot with a squib, shall not shorten the fuse,
+saturate it with oil, or ignite it except at the extreme end; he
+shall see that all persons are out of danger from the probable
+effects of such shot, and if it be a rib shot, he shall notify the
+person or persons working next to him on said rib before firing said
+shot, and shall take measures to prevent any one approaching by
+shouting "fire" immediately before lighting the fuse.
+
+When a squib is used and a shot misses fire, no person shall return
+until five minutes shall have elapsed.
+
+When a fuse is used and a shot misses fire, no person shall return
+until one hour for each foot of fuse used shall have elapsed.
+
+The needle used in preparing a blast shall be made of copper, and
+the tamping bar shall be made of wood, or shall be tipped with at
+least five inches of solid copper.
+
+No inflammable material, or any material that may create a spark,
+shall be used for tamping, and some soft material must always be
+placed next to the cartridge or explosive. When it is necessary to
+tamp dynamite, nothing but a wooden tamper shall be used. (Sec. 956,
+962; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO PERSONS NOT EMPLOYES.=
+
+
+Sec. 964. [=Persons not employes of a mine.=] Persons not employes
+of a mine, except those permitted by law, shall not enter such mine
+or go upon the property connected therewith, unless consent of the
+owner, lessee or agent has been secured, and then only when
+accompanied by a guide furnished by such owner, lessee or agent.
+This, however, shall not prohibit persons seeking employment at such
+mine, or the duly authorized representatives of the employes, from
+entering upon the property as may be necessary to make such
+application to the proper authority or to transact business,
+provided such persons do not enter the mine until given permission
+to do so, and do not stand on the tracks, go near the machinery, or
+other place of danger. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=GENERAL PROVISIONS.=
+
+
+Sec. 965. [=Qualifications of miner.=] Each person desiring to work
+by himself at mining or loading, shall first produce satisfactory
+evidence, in writing, to the mine-foreman of the mine in which he is
+employed, or to be employed, that he has worked at least nine months
+with, under the direction of, or as a practical miner; provided,
+however, if the mine in which such person is to be employed
+generates explosive gas, or fire-damp, he shall have worked not less
+than twelve months with, under the direction of, or as a practical
+miner. Except as hereinafter provided, until a person has so
+satisfied the mine-foreman of his competency, he shall not work, or
+be permitted to work at mining or loading unless accompanied by a
+competent miner.
+
+
+[=Inexperienced miner.=] The provisions of this section shall not
+prohibit a person not so qualified from working in a mine by
+himself, or with another inexperienced person, when such person or
+persons work under the direction of a competent overseer, as
+hereinafter prescribed. Until such person or persons have been
+employed in a mine for a period of not less than three months, the
+overseer shall visit the working place of such persons not less
+frequently than once in each four hours that such persons are in the
+mine, and instruct them as to their work and safety, and assist them
+in caring for their safety. After such persons have been employed in
+a mine for a period of three months, and until they have been
+employed not less than six months, the overseer shall examine the
+working place not less frequently than once during each six hours
+that such persons are in the mine, and shall instruct them as to
+their work and safety, and assist them in caring for their safety.
+After such persons have been employed in a mine for a period of not
+less than six months, the overseer shall examine the working place
+not less than once each day until such persons become qualified by
+having worked the period of time hereinbefore provided. The overseer
+shall instruct such persons not to handle or use any explosives,
+except in his presence, until they have been employed in a mine not
+less than three months, and not then until he is satisfied that such
+persons are fully competent to handle and use same with safety. The
+overseer shall visit the working place of such persons oftener than
+required herein, when, in his judgment, it is necessary to do so for
+the proper safety of such persons. (Sec. 954; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 966. [=Oath and bond of weigh-master.=] Any person employed to
+weigh coal at a mine in which ten or more miners are employed, and
+upon the weight of which the earnings of the miners depend, shall
+take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized to
+administer the same, that he will correctly weigh all coal taken
+from such mine under existing contracts between the owner, lessee or
+agent, and the miners, and give due credit for same; and when
+required by existing contracts between the lessor and lessee, he
+shall give due credit to such lessor. He shall also give a bond in
+the sum of three hundred dollars, with two sureties approved by the
+clerk of the township in which such mine is situated, conditioned
+for the faithful discharge of his duties, and payable to the state,
+with the oath indorsed thereon, which shall be deposited with such
+township clerk. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 967. [=Examination of machinery, ventilating current, etc., by
+miner or owner.=] The miners employed in a mine may appoint two of
+their number to act as a committee to inspect, not oftener than once
+in every month, the mine and the machinery connected therewith, and
+to measure the ventilating current. If the owner, lessee or agent so
+desires, he may accompany such committee or appoint two or more
+persons for that purpose. The owner, lessee or agent shall afford
+every necessary facility for making such inspection and measurement,
+but the committee shall not in any way interrupt or impede the work
+in the mine at the time of such inspection and measurement. Within
+ten days after the inspection and measurement, such committee shall
+make a correct report thereof to the chief inspector of mines, on
+blanks furnished by him. (Sec. 906; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 968. [=Appropriation of land for mines, how made.=] The owner,
+lessee or agent of a coal mine, may, when such owner, lessee or
+agent does not own or control suitable surface ground for openings
+for the ingress and egress of persons employed therein, for the
+means of ventilation as provided for in this act, for the means of
+draining said mine as may best protect the lives and health of the
+persons employed therein, for the protection of the employes and
+property, for conducting the water from the mine to any natural
+water course, or for suitable roadway from any opening to a public
+highway, appropriate as hereinafter provided, for any one or more of
+such purposes any required intervening or adjoining lands, and make
+openings, lay pipe for conducting water, and maintain roadways into,
+upon, over, under or through same, provided that no land shall be
+appropriated for a roadway more than twenty feet in width, and no
+land for any other one of such purposes in excess of one-quarter of
+an acre. Such owner, lessee or agent, whether a corporation, firm or
+individual, shall be governed in proceedings to appropriate such
+land by the laws relating to the appropriation of private property
+by corporation; but no land shall be so appropriated unless the
+court is satisfied that suitable land cannot be obtained upon
+reasonable terms.
+
+
+Sec. 969. [=Examination and survey of mine by owner of land
+adjoining.=] Each person owning land adjoining a mine worked for the
+production of coal, and each person interested in such mine, who has
+reason to believe that the protection of his interests therein or in
+the coal on his adjoining land requires it, upon making affidavit to
+that effect before a justice of the peace or other proper officer,
+may enter such mine and have an examination or survey of it made,
+after giving three days' notice, in writing, to the owner, lessee or
+agent of such mine. Such examination shall be made at such time, and
+in such manner, as will least interfere with the working of the
+mine.
+
+
+[=Transportation of surveying party.=] When the affidavit has been
+made, and notice given, as provided in the foregoing, upon the
+application of the person giving the notice, the person in charge of
+such mine shall transport, by the ordinary method for entrance and
+exit in use at such mine, a surveying party of not more than three
+persons, furnish them a competent guide, and supply them with
+necessary and proper lamps. The person in charge of the mine shall
+be paid by the person requesting the survey, fifty cents for each
+person so transported, and five dollars per day for guide; but, if
+the shaft, (if such mine be a shaft mine), exceed two hundred and
+fifty feet in depth, he shall be paid one dollar for each person so
+transported.
+
+
+[=Liability for damages caused by examination.=] If the owner or
+lessee of such mine sustain damage for which compensation should be
+made because such examination or survey was made at unreasonable
+times, or in an improper or unwarrantable manner, the person making,
+such examination or survey, or causing it to be made, shall be
+liable therefor to such owner or lessee.
+
+
+[=Forfeiture.=] The persons owning or operating a mine shall not
+hinder or obstruct such examination or survey, if made at a
+reasonable time, and in a reasonable manner, and as provided by law.
+
+
+[=To whom provisions concerning examination and survey available.=]
+The preceding provisions for examination and survey shall be
+available to any person, who, on his oath, states that he is the
+owner, or authorized agent of an owner, of land which he believes
+contains coal or commercial products adjacent to the underground
+working of a mine, although it does not adjoin the property of such
+mine.
+
+
+[=Action for refusal to permit examination.=] Upon the refusal of
+the owner, lessee or agent of a mine to comply with the provisions
+of this section, the person who makes the application for the survey
+may recover judgment as upon default, in a court of competent
+jurisdiction, against the owner, lessee or agent, in such sum as he
+declares under oath that he believes to be justly due him for coal
+belonging to him taken by the owner, lessee or agent of the mine
+without his permission, and the statute of limitations shall not run
+against such claim, but the demand, and refusal of permission to
+enter such mine, must be first proven to the satisfaction of the
+court or jury.
+
+
+Sec. 970. [=Checkweighman for miners.=] The miners employed at a
+mine where the earnings of such miners depend upon the weight of
+coal mined, may, at their own cost, designate or appoint a competent
+person as checkweighman, who, at all proper times, shall have full
+right of access to and examination of the scales, machinery or
+apparatus used at such mine to determine the correct weight of coal
+mined, and whose duty shall be to see the coal weighed and to make a
+correct record of such weights. Not more than one person, however,
+on behalf of the miners collectively shall have such right at the
+same time.
+
+
+[=Checkweighman for landowners.=] The landowners, or other persons
+interested in the rental or royalty at such mine, may, at their own
+cost, designate or appoint a competent person to act as
+checkweighman for them, who shall have the same rights as the
+checkweighman for the miners. Not more than one person, however, on
+behalf of the landowners, or other persons interested in the rental
+or royalty, jointly, shall have such right at the same time.
+Checkweighmen shall not interfere with the use of or tamper with
+such scales, machinery or apparatus, nor make any false entry of any
+weight, or in any manner exceed the duties prescribed herein.
+
+
+[=Check-measurer.=] The miners employed at a mine where the earnings
+of such miners depend upon measurements, may, at their own cost,
+designate or employ, not more than one of their number as
+check-measurer to accompany each mine-foreman or other person making
+the measurements and see them make such measurements, and make a
+correct record of same. Each mine-foreman or other person making
+measurements may have a helper, but such helper shall not be
+regarded as a person making measurements. The person or persons
+designated as check-measurer shall not in any manner interfere with
+or interrupt the work of the mine-foreman, or other person, while
+making such measurements. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+Sec. 971. [=Crossing public highway.=] Any person, firm or
+corporation now or hereafter owning any land containing mineral,
+coal, stone or clay, and over any portion of which shall pass any
+state, county or township road or public highway, shall have the
+right and are hereby authorized to drill, excavate, mine or quarry
+through or under any such road; provided, however, that when any
+excavation is to be made in such manner that the top or highest
+level of such excavation will be extended within thirty feet
+vertical distance of such road, then and in that case before said
+work shall be commenced, such person, firm or corporation shall
+execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners in case of
+state or county roads, or to the township trustee in case of
+township roads, a bond, with good and sufficient surety in such
+amounts as shall be considered by said commission or trustees
+sufficient to cover any damages that may accrue by reason of
+excavating, mining or quarrying through or under any such road, the
+same to be approved by said commissioners or trustees; conditioned
+that while crossing over or mining or quarrying under any such road,
+a safe and unobstructed passageway or road shall be kept open by
+such person, firm or corporation for public use, and as soon as
+practicable such road shall be fully restored to its original safe
+and passable condition. When such crossing is made by excavation at
+a depth of more than thirty feet below the surface of such road, the
+person, firm or corporation making same shall be liable to the
+county commissioners or township trustees for any damage that may
+accrue by reason of such excavation, and shall be held to fully
+repair any such damage and to restore such road to its original safe
+and passable condition. The right to mine or quarry across or under
+public highways as hereinbefore provided shall accrue to the owner,
+lessee or agent of the land upon or through which such highway
+passes. (Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+=Right of action in case of accident.=
+
+
+Sec. 972. In case of an injury to persons or property, occasioned by
+a violation of any of the provisions of this act or any willful
+failure to comply with any provisions of this act any owner, lessee
+or agent of a mine, a right of action shall accrue to the person
+injured, for any direct damage he may have sustained thereby. In
+case of loss of life, by reason of such failure or willful neglect,
+a right of action shall accrue to the widow, and children, or if
+there be none such, then to the parents and next of kin, of the
+person whose death was so caused, for like recovery of damages for
+the injury they shall have sustained.
+
+Each person who performs labor in opening or developing any coal
+mine, mining coal, and labor connected therewith, shall have a lien
+upon all the property of the person, firm or corporation owning,
+constructing or operating such mine, for the value of such labor for
+the full amount thereof, upon the same terms, as mechanic's liens
+are secured and enforced. (103 O. Laws 67.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO OIL AND GAS WELLS THROUGH COAL MEASURES.=
+
+
+=Owner of well shall make and file map.=
+
+
+Sec. 973. Any person, firm or corporation holding property in any
+coal bearing or coal producing township, in any county of the state
+of Ohio, either in fee, by virtue of a lease for oil or gas, mining
+purposes since January first, 1900, or otherwise, whereon wells have
+been drilled for oil, gas or test purposes, shall cause to be made
+by a competent engineer, an accurate map on a scale of not less than
+one inch to four hundred feet, showing on said map the location and
+number of wells as near as the same can be located, that have been
+drilled, whether or not any of such wells have been previously
+abandoned, or were drilled and abandoned by former operators, who
+have ever held the said property for oil, gas or mining purposes.
+
+Said map shall show the name and address of the person, firm or
+corporation owning said well or wells, the county and township, the
+names of the adjoining property owners, and lines of the property
+operated with the distances of the wells properly measured therefrom
+and checked from the section and quarter section lines, as will be
+necessary for an accurate survey. The map shall show all the
+engineer's notations of angles, distances, starting point, or corner
+stones, together with the numbers given the respective wells, giving
+a legend as to the manner in which various abandoned or producing
+wells, are designated. The original map shall be retained by the
+owner or his agent, and one copy filed with the industrial
+commission of Ohio, division of mines, said copy showing thereon the
+sworn statement of the engineer making the map that same is correct.
+
+
+=Well shall not be near mine opening.=
+
+No oil well, gas well or test well shall be drilled nearer than
+three hundred feet to any opening to a mine used as a means of
+ingress or egress for persons employed therein, nor nearer than one
+hundred feet to any building or inflammable structure connected
+therewith, and actually used as a part of the operating equipment of
+said mine.
+
+
+=Persons drilling oil and gas wells in coal bearing or coal
+producing townships.=
+
+Any person, firm or corporation before drilling or causing to be
+drilled any oil well, gas well or test well within the limits of any
+coal producing township in any county of the state of Ohio, shall
+first file an application with, the industrial commission of Ohio,
+division of mines, on blanks to be furnished by said commission for
+such purpose, and shall show the following: The name and address of
+the applicant, the proper date, location of the proposed
+well--giving the name of the property owner, section number,
+township and county, the number of the proposed well, and signed by
+an officer or agent of such operator. No well shall be commenced
+until the applicant or operator has been granted a permit, which
+shall be granted by the industrial commission of Ohio, division of
+mines, under the following conditions:
+
+
+=When well is adjacent to mine.=
+
+If such proposed well is located within the limits directly adjacent
+to mining operations, such limits to be determined by the industrial
+commission of Ohio, division of mines, the application for permit
+must be accompanied by a map showing the location of the proposed
+well and answering the requirements in the preceding regulations for
+mapping.
+
+
+=When well is not adjacent to mine.=
+
+If such proposed well is not located within the limits directly
+adjacent to mining operations, but within the limits of any coal
+producing or coal bearing township, the industrial commission of
+Ohio, division of mines, shall grant a permit immediately upon
+receipt of the application, providing the applicant is a responsible
+person, firm or corporation. The industrial commission of Ohio,
+division of mines, may at any time after the well is commenced, if
+the responsibility of the applicant or operator is considered
+doubtful, cause such operator or applicant to show proper guaranty
+of his intention to fulfill the requirements of the section, or
+cause all operations to cease forthwith. If any person, firm or
+corporation continue drilling on property already surveyed in
+accordance with the preceding requirements, a complete blue print or
+copy of map shall be made at the end of each year ending June 30th,
+showing the additional wells properly surveyed by a competent
+engineer as above mentioned, and filed with the industrial
+commission of Ohio, division of mines, not later than the following
+first of September.
+
+
+=When well is to be abandoned owner shall give notice.=
+
+When any oil well, gas well or test well is to be abandoned, the
+person, firm or corporation owning such well shall notify the
+industrial commission of Ohio, division of mines, or the deputy oil
+and gas well inspector of the district in which the well is located,
+as many days in advance as will be necessary for the inspector to
+arrange to be present at such abandonment. No well shall be
+abandoned without an inspector being present, unless permission has
+been first granted upon good cause shown, by the industrial
+commission of Ohio, division of mines.
+
+
+=Method of plugging well.=
+
+When any oil well, gas well or test well is to be abandoned, it must
+first be plugged in some secure manner above the oil or gas sand or
+rock formation, either by placing or driving one or more good
+seasoned wooden plugs, or a lead plug, as the case may require, so
+that no gas or oil may escape, or any water or destructive matter
+force itself into the oil or gas sand, or rock formation. Upon such
+seasoned wooden plug or plugging material shall be filled at least
+thirty feet of cement properly mixed with sand, or thirty feet of
+good clay or rock sediment properly prepared.
+
+If any well has passed through a workable vein or seam of coal, it
+shall when it is abandoned be plugged in the following manner: A
+seasoned wooden plug shall be driven to a point thirty feet below
+the lowest workable seam of coal and the hole filled with cement to
+a point at least twenty feet above this seam of coal, at which point
+another wooden plug shall be placed and the hole filled for a
+distance of twenty feet with cement or properly prepared clay, or
+rock sediment. If there is more than one seam of coal the next seam
+above must be plugged off in like manner.
+
+
+=When well penetrates the excavations of any mine.=
+
+In the event that a well being drilled penetrates the excavations of
+any mine, it must be cased with casing of approximately the same
+diameter as the diameter of the hole, the hole to be drilled thirty
+feet or to solid slate or rock and not less than ten feet below the
+floor of such mine, and the casing shall be placed in the following
+manner: One string of casing shall be placed at a point above the
+roof of said mine so as to shut off all of the surface water; then
+the hole drilled through said mine and another string of casing put
+in. The bottom of the second string of casing, or the one passing
+through said mine, shall not be nearer than ten feet, or more than
+thirty feet from the floor of the mine where it passes through the
+same.
+
+When any well which has been drilled is to be abandoned and has
+passed through the excavations of any coal mine from which the
+minable coal has not all been removed, the person, firm or
+corporation owning said well shall leave in said well the casing
+passing through said mine from a point not less than ten feet, nor
+more than thirty feet below the floor of said mine, and extending
+above the roof of said mine at least five feet. A seasoned wooden
+plug shall be driven to a point at least forty feet below the floor
+of the mine and the hole above said plug together with the casing
+left in, which extends through the coal, shall be filled with
+cement; then a seasoned wooden plug shall be driven on the top of
+said casing, and the hole filled with cement for a distance of not
+less than twenty feet.
+
+=Interpretation--"coal bearing and coal producing township."=
+
+A coal bearing or coal producing township of any county shall be
+interpreted to mean any, township as a unit, in which coal is found
+that, is being mined, or is of such thickness as to make it likely
+to be mined at some future time. Any well drilled in such township,
+whether or not it passes through any coal, the same being barren in
+certain sections of such township, or the well being commenced below
+the line of outcrop of the coal, will nevertheless be required to be
+mapped and abandoned in accordance with the regulations and
+provisions of this section as given above, which shall apply
+uniformly throughout any coal bearing or coal producing township of
+any county.
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO ILLUMINATING OIL FOR MINES.=
+
+
+=Composition of illuminating oil for use in mines.=
+
+
+Sec. 974. No person, firm or corporation shall compound, sell or
+offer for sale for illuminating purposes in any mine any oil other
+than oil composed of not less than eighty-two per cent, of pure
+animal or vegetable oil, or both, and not more than eighteen per
+cent, pure mineral oil. The gravity of such animal or vegetable oil
+shall not be less than twenty-one and one-half, and not more than
+twenty-two and one-half degrees Baume scale, measured by Tagliabue
+or other standard hydrometer, at a temperature of sixty degrees
+Fahrenheit; the gravity of such mineral oil shall not be less than
+thirty-four and not more than thirty-six degrees Baume scale,
+measured by Tagliabue or other standard hydrometer at a temperature
+of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, and the gravity of the mixture shall
+not exceed twenty-five degrees Baume scale measured by Tagliabue or
+other standard hydrometer at a temperature of sixty degrees
+Fahrenheit. Each person, firm or corporation compounding oil for
+illuminating purposes in any mine or mines, shall, before shipment
+thereof is made, securely brand, stencil or paste upon the head of
+each barrel or package, a label which shall have plainly printed,
+marked or written thereon, the name and address of the person, firm
+or corporation, having purchased same, the date of shipment, the
+percentage and the gravity in degrees Baume scale, at a temperature
+of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, of each of the component parts of
+animal, vegetable and mineral oil contained in the mixture, and the
+gravity in degrees Baume scale at a temperature sixty degrees
+Fahrenheit of the mixture. Each label shall have printed thereon,
+over the fac-simile signature of the person, firm or corporation
+having compounded the oil, the following: "This package contains oil
+for illuminating purposes in mines in the State of Ohio, and the
+composition thereof as shown hereon is correct." Each person, firm
+or corporation, manufacturing paraffine wax for illuminating
+purposes in any mine, or mines, shall, before shipment thereof is
+made, securely brand, stencil, or paste, upon the head of each
+barrel, box, or case, containing small packages, the name and
+address of the person, firm or corporation, manufacturing paraffine
+wax therein contained, the name and address of the person, firm or
+corporation, having purchased the same, and the date of shipment.
+And each individual package contained within each barrel, box or
+case, shall have plainly printed thereon the name of the product,
+the name and address of the manufacturer thereof, together with the
+melting point, fire test, and the percentage of oil and moisture of
+the paraffine wax herein contained. But nothing herein contained
+shall prohibit the manufacture, sale or use for illuminating
+purposes in mines in this state, of paraffine wax with melting point
+at from one hundred five to one hundred twenty-four degrees of heat
+and minimum fire test not less than three hundred degrees
+Fahrenheit, with not over four per cent, oil and moisture.
+
+
+=Acetylene gas in mines.=
+
+
+Sec. 974-1. It shall be lawful to use acetylene gas in lamps in
+mines subject to the following conditions and restrictions: First,
+no person or persons shall take into a mine a greater quantity of
+calcium carbide than will be a reasonable supply for his own lamp
+for one day's work. Second, no person shall deposit, or keep in his
+possession in a mine any calcium carbide, or refuse from calcium
+carbide, in anything except air-tight containers, and these
+containers with their contents must be taken out of the mine at the
+end of each day's work, or sooner, if possible. Third, no person or
+persons, shall be allowed to use acetylene gas in lamps where there
+are old or abandoned workings where large quantities of black damp
+or other poisonous gases are liable to accumulate until such places
+have been examined by a competent person and pronounced to be free
+from foul or poisonous atmosphere.
+
+
+=Other illuminants.=
+
+
+Sec. 974-2. No person shall use in any mine any other illuminant
+than those provided for in sections 974 and 974-1 of the General
+Code, unless with the consent of the chief inspector of mines.
+
+
+=Penalty.=
+
+
+Sec. 974-3. Any person who knowingly uses, or any owner, lessee or
+agent, who permits the use of any illuminant contrary to the
+provisions of sections 974, 974-1 and 974-2, or any owner, lessee or
+agent who permits any person to deposit, or keep in his possession,
+in a mine any calcium carbide, or refuse from calcium carbide,
+except as provided in said sections 974 and 974-1, upon conviction,
+shall be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars, and for
+a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than
+twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. (103 O.L.
+25.)
+
+
+Sec. 975. [=No oil for illuminating purposes in mines shall be sold
+except oil prescribed in this act.=] No person, firm or corporation
+shall sell or offer for sale, any oil for illuminating purposes in
+any coal mine unless the barrel or package in which such oil was
+received bears the label of the compounder as provided for in this
+act. Each person, firm or corporation selling or offering for sale
+any oil for illuminating purposes in any coal mine, shall, upon
+request of any district inspector of mines, or of any officer or
+duly authorized agent of any owner or lessee of a coal mine located
+within two miles of the point where such oil is offered for sale,
+submit such oil and the original containers for examination, and
+upon request, give a sample of such oil from one or more original
+containers selected by such inspector, officer or agent, for the
+purpose of making a test thereof.
+
+
+[=Adulteration of illuminating oil forbidden.=] No person shall
+adulterate any oil either before or after taking same from the
+original containers, and shall not alter, transfer, or re-use any
+label placed upon any container.
+
+
+[=Persons forbidden to use oil other than prescribed in this act.=]
+No person shall use for illuminating purposes in any coal mine, any
+oil other than the oil specifically provided for in this act. Each
+person, while in a coal mine, shall, upon request of any district
+inspector of mines, or any officer or duly authorized agent of the
+owner or lessee, submit his lamp and supply of oil for examination,
+and upon request, give sample of oil for purpose of making test
+thereof, and state from whom purchased.
+
+
+[=Provisions of this act shall apply only to oil used for open
+lights.=] The provisions of this act relating to the compounding,
+sale and use of oil for illuminating purposes in coal mines, shall
+apply to oil used in lamps for open lights. The oil used in safety
+lamps may be of such composition as will best serve the purpose.
+(Sec. 944, 974; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO PENALTIES.=
+
+=County Coroner.=
+
+
+Sec. 976. Any county coroner who, after receiving notice of a fatal
+accident, or of an accident, which has resulted in the death of a
+person, at, in, or around a mine, from the owner, lessee or agent of
+such mine, or the chief inspector of mines, willfully refuses or
+neglects to comply, so far as such provisions relate to him, with
+the provisions of section nine hundred and twenty-one of the General
+Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than
+twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, at the discretion
+of the court.
+
+
+=Owner, lessee or agent.=
+
+Any owner, lessee or agent of a mine, or any person, firm or
+corporation opening a new mine, having written knowledge of a
+violation of this act, who willfully refuses or neglects to comply
+with the provisions of section nine hundred and twenty-two, nine
+hundred and twenty-three, nine hundred and twenty-four, nine hundred
+and twenty-five, nine hundred and twenty-six, nine hundred and
+twenty-seven, nine hundred and twenty-eight, nine hundred
+twenty-nine, nine hundred and thirty, nine hundred and thirty-one,
+nine hundred and thirty-two, nine hundred and thirty-three, nine
+hundred and thirty-four, nine hundred and thirty-seven, nine hundred
+and thirty-eight, nine hundred and thirty-nine, nine hundred and
+forty, nine hundred and forty-one, nine hundred and forty-two, nine
+hundred and forty-three, nine hundred and forty-four, nine hundred
+and forty-five, nine hundred and forty-six, nine hundred and
+forty-seven, nine hundred and forty-eight, nine hundred and
+forty-nine, nine hundred and fifty, or nine hundred and seventy-one
+of the General Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not
+less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and for a
+second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than fifty
+dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the
+court.
+
+
+=Superintendent, mine-foreman or over-seer.=
+
+Any superintendent, mine-foreman, foreman or overseer, who willfully
+refuses or neglects to comply, so far as such provisions relate to
+each of them with the provisions of section nine hundred and
+fifty-one, nine hundred and fifty-two, nine hundred and fifty-three,
+and nine hundred and fifty-four of the General Code, shall upon
+conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than
+twenty-five dollars, and for a second or subsequent offense, shall
+be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five
+dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty
+days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
+
+
+=Stableman; fire-boss; entering mine generating fire-damp before
+reported safe, or going beyond danger signal.=
+
+Any person or persons who willfully refuses or neglects to comply
+with the provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-five of the
+General Code, or enters a mine generating fire damp before it is
+reported by the fire boss that it is safe for persons to enter, or
+goes beyond a danger signal indicating an accumulation of fire damp,
+as forbidden by the provisions of section nine hundred and
+fifty-nine of the General Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
+fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars,
+and for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less
+than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned
+not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, at the
+discretion of the court.
+
+
+=Employes of mines.=
+
+Any person, or persons, who violates the provisions of sections nine
+hundred and fifty-six, nine hundred and fifty-seven, nine hundred
+and fifty-eight, nine hundred and sixty, nine hundred and sixty-one,
+or nine hundred and sixty-two of the General Code, or violates the
+provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-nine of the General
+Code other than to enter a mine generating fire-damp before the fire
+boss reports it safe, or to go beyond a danger signal indicating an
+accumulation of fire-damp, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
+not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars, and for a
+second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than five
+dollars nor more than ten dollars, or imprisoned not less than five
+days nor more than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the
+court.
+
+
+=Persons not employes, qualification of miners, check-weighman,
+check-measurer.=
+
+Any person who willfully violates the provisions of sections nine
+hundred and sixty-four, nine hundred and sixty-five, nine hundred
+and sixty-six, nine hundred and sixty-seven, or nine hundred and
+seventy of the General Code, or violates the provisions of section
+nine hundred and fifty-nine of the General Code relating to
+loitering and intoxicants, at, in or around a mine, shall, upon
+conviction thereof, be fined not less than five dollars, nor more
+than ten dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense shall
+be fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, or
+imprisoned not less than five days nor more than ten days, or both,
+at the discretion of the court.
+
+
+=Drilling and operating oil and gas wells.=
+
+Any person, firm or corporation who violates or willfully refuses or
+neglects to comply with the provisions of section 973, shall, upon
+conviction thereof, be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor
+more than five hundred dollars, and for a second or any subsequent
+offense shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars and not
+more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty
+days nor more than six months, at the discretion of the court. In
+addition, if the material is pulled out of a well which was not
+plugged in accordance with the provisions of section 973, the
+person, firm or corporation causing such offense may be made to
+clean out such well and properly plug the same, or pay the entire
+reasonable cost of such work being done under orders of the
+industrial commission of Ohio, division of mines, within thirty
+days.
+
+
+=Compounding oil for illuminating purposes in mines.=
+
+Any person, firm or corporation who compounds, sells or offers for
+sale to dealers any oil or paraffine wax; fish oil or any other
+illuminant whatever, other than those specifically provided for in
+section 974, General Code, unless with the consent and approval of
+the chief inspector of mines, for illuminating purposes in any mine
+in this state contrary to the provisions of sections nine hundred
+and seventy-four and nine hundred and seventy-five of the General
+Code, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty
+dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and for a second or any
+subsequent offense shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars
+nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than
+thirty days nor more than sixty days, or both, at the discretion of
+the court.
+
+
+=Sale of oil for illuminating purposes in mines.=
+
+Any person, firm or corporation who sells, or offers for sale to any
+employe of a mine for illuminating purposes in a mine any oil or
+paraffine wax, fish oil or any other illuminant, other than those
+specially provided for in section nine hundred and seventy-four of
+the General Code, unless with the consent and approval of the chief
+inspector of mines contrary to the provisions of section nine
+hundred and seventy-four and nine hundred and seventy-five of the
+General Code, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than
+twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and for a second or
+any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five
+dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten
+days nor more than twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the
+court.
+
+
+=Using oil for illuminating purposes in mines.=
+
+Any person who knowingly uses for illuminating purposes in a mine,
+any oil or paraffine wax, fish oil or any other illuminant whatever
+other than those specially provided for in section nine hundred and
+seventy-four of the General Code, unless with the consent and
+approval of the chief inspector of mines, contrary to the provisions
+of sections nine hundred and seventy-four and nine hundred and
+seventy-five of the General Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
+fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, and for
+a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than five
+dollars nor more than ten dollars, or imprisoned not less than five
+days nor more than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the
+court.
+
+(934-1a.)
+
+
+
+=REGULATING AND PROHIBITING SOLID SHOOTING.=
+
+
+=Failure to obtain permit; penalty.=
+
+
+Sec. 976-1. Whoever being engaged in the operation of a coal mine
+causes or permits any solid shooting to be done therein without
+having first obtained a permit to do so from the industrial
+commission of Ohio shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred
+dollars.
+
+
+=Permit must be obtained.=
+
+
+Sec. 976-2. A permit to do solid shooting may be issued by the
+industrial commission of Ohio in the case of any mine when
+application shall be made therefor by the owner, lessee or person
+engaged in the operation thereof and by a majority of the miners
+employed therein, and when such industrial commission shall be
+satisfied that such method of blasting is necessary for the just and
+reasonably profitable operation of such mine. Such permit may be
+revoked at any time by said commission after sixty days' notice in
+writing to such owner, lessee or person operating such mine. Any
+person in interest who is dissatisfied with any order of said
+industrial commission made under the power conferred upon it by this
+section, may commence an action to set aside, vacate or amend such
+order in the same manner and for the same reason as other orders of
+such commission may be set aside, vacated or amended.
+
+
+=Each section declared to be independent section.=
+
+
+Sec. 976-3. Each section of this act is hereby declared to be an
+independent section and the holding of any section to be void or
+ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other
+section thereof.
+
+
+
+=RELATING TO FINES COLLECTED, PROSECUTIONS, WHEN ACT SHALL TAKE
+EFFECT, AND REPEALS.=
+
+
+Sec. 977. [=Fines collected.=] All fines collected by reason of
+prosecutions begun under the provisions of this act, shall be paid
+to the chief inspector of mines, and by him paid into the state
+treasury.
+
+
+Sec. 978. [=Prosecutions; how controlled.=] Any prosecutions begun
+under the provisions of this act shall be controlled by sections
+thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-three and thirteen
+thousand four hundred and thirty-two to thirteen thousand four
+hundred and thirty-nine inclusive of the General Code.
+
+
+
+=REGULATION OF WEIGHING OF COAL.=
+
+
+=Miner to be paid for all coal contained within car.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-1. Every miner and every loader of coal in any mine in this
+state who under the terms of his employment is to be paid for mining
+or loading such coal on the basis of the ton or other weight shall
+be paid for such mining or loading according to the total weight of
+all such coal contained within the car (hereinafter referred to as
+mine car) in which the same shall have been removed out of the mine
+unless otherwise agreed between employer and miner or loader.
+
+
+=Department of Industrial Relations to determine percentage of
+impurity.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-2. Said industrial commission shall ascertain and determine
+the percentage of slate, sulphur, rock, dirt, or other impurity
+unavoidable in the proper mining or loading of the contents of mine
+cars or coal in the several operating mines within this state
+subject, however, to the right of the employer and miner or loader
+in any of such mines to make an agreement with reference thereto.
+
+
+=Percentage of fine coal.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-3. When there is no agreement between the miner or loader
+of coal in any mine in this state and the operator thereof whereby
+the miner or loader is to be paid for mining or loading coal other
+than on the basis of the ton or other weight according to the total
+weight of all such coal contained within the car it shall be the
+duty of such miner or loader of coal and his employer to agree upon
+and fix, for stipulated periods, the percentage of fine coal
+commonly known as nut, pea, dust and slack allowable in the output
+of the mine wherein such miner or loader is employed. At any time
+when there shall not be in effect such agreed and fixed percentages
+of fine coal allowable in the output of any mine, said industrial
+commission shall forthwith upon request of such miner or loader or
+his employer, fix, such allowable percentage of fine coal, which
+percentage so fixed by said industrial commission shall continue in
+force until otherwise agreed and fixed by such miner or loader and
+his employer. Whenever said industrial commission shall find that
+the total output of such fine coal at any mine for a period of one
+month during which such mine shall have been operating while the
+percentage of fine coal so fixed by said industrial commission has
+been in force, exceeds the percentage so fixed by it, said
+industrial commission shall at once make, enter and cause to be
+enforced such order or orders relative to the production of coal at
+such mine, as will result in reducing the percentage of such fine
+coal, to the amount so fixed by said industrial commission.
+
+
+Sec. 978-4. Said industrial commission shall, as to all coal mines
+in this state, which have not been in operation heretofore, perform
+the duties imposed upon it by the provisions hereof.
+
+
+=Department of Industrial Relations may change percentage.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-5. Said industrial commission shall have full power from
+time to time, to change, upon investigation, any percentage by it
+ascertained and determined or fixed, as provided in the preceding
+sections hereof.
+
+
+=Unlawful to use screen.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-6. It shall be unlawful for the employer of a miner or
+loader of the contents of any car of coal to pass any part of such
+contents over a screen or other device, for the purpose of
+ascertaining or calculating the amount to be paid such miner or
+loader for mining or loading such contents, whereby the total weight
+of such contents shall be reduced or diminished unless otherwise
+agreed between employer and miner or loader. Any person, firm or
+corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed
+guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined for each
+separate offense not less than three hundred dollars nor more than
+six hundred dollars.
+
+
+=Loading impurity; penalty.=
+
+
+Sec. 978-7. A miner or loader of the contents of a mine car,
+containing a greater percentage of slate, sulphur, rock, dirt or
+other impurity, than that ascertained and determined by said
+industrial commission, as hereinbefore provided, shall be guilty of
+a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as follows: for
+the first offense within a period of three days he shall be fined
+fifty cents; for a second offense within such period of three days
+he shall be fined one dollar; and for the third offense within such
+period of three days he shall be fined not less than two dollars nor
+more than four dollars. Provided, that nothing contained in this
+section shall affect the right of a miner or loader and his employer
+to agree upon deductions by the system known as docking, on account
+of such slate, sulphur, rock, dirt or other impurity.
+
+
+
+=JURISDICTION.=
+
+
+The following are the sections of the General Code referred to in
+various sections of the mining law, and under which prosecutions
+will be made.
+
+
+=JURISDICTION.=
+
+
+Sec. 13423. Justices of the peace, police judges and mayors of
+cities and villages shall have jurisdiction, within their respective
+counties, in all cases of violation of any law relating to:
+
+1. Adulteration or deception in the sale of dairy products and other
+food, drink, drugs and medicines.
+
+2. The prevention of cruelty to animals and children.
+
+3. The abandonment, non-support or ill treatment of a child by its
+parent.
+
+4. The abandonment or ill treatment of a child under sixteen years
+of age by its guardian.
+
+5. The employment of a child under fourteen years of age in public
+exhibitions or vocations injurious to health, life or morals, or
+which cause or permit it to suffer unnecessary physical or mental
+pain.
+
+6. The regulation, restriction or prohibition of the employment of
+minors.
+
+7. The torturing, unlawfully punishing, ill treating, or depriving
+anyone of necessary food, clothing or shelter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+15. The prevention of short weighing and measuring and all
+violations of the weights and measures laws.
+
+(1080 O.L., 41.)
+
+
+
+=JUSTICES, POLICE JUDGES AND MAYORS.=
+
+
+Sec. 13432. [=When imprisonment is a part of the punishment a jury
+shall be impaneled.=] In prosecutions before a justice, police judge
+or mayor, when imprisonment is a part of the punishment if a trial
+by jury is not waived the magistrate, not less than three days nor
+more than five days before the time fixed for trial, shall certify
+to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county that such
+prosecution is pending before him. (R.S. Sec. 3718a.)
+
+
+Sec. 13433. [=Clerk's duties.=] Thereupon the clerk, in the presence
+of representatives of both parties, shall draw from the jury wheel
+or box containing the names of persons selected to serve as petit
+jurors in the court of common pleas in such county, twenty names
+which shall be drawn and counted in a like manner as for jurors in
+the court of common pleas. The clerk shall forthwith certify the
+names so drawn to the magistrate, who, thereupon, shall issue to any
+constable, chief of police or marshal in the county a venire
+containing the names of the persons to serve as jurors in the case
+and make due return thereof. (R.S. Sec. 3718a.)
+
+
+Sec. 13434. [=Jurors.=] The jurors shall be subject to like
+challenges as jurors in criminal cases, except capital cases in the
+court of common pleas. If the venire is exhausted without obtaining
+the number required to fill the panel, the magistrate shall fill the
+panel with talesmen in the manner provided for criminal cases in the
+court of common pleas. (R.S. Sec. 3718a.)
+
+
+Sec. 13435. [=Second or subsequent offense.=] In such prosecutions,
+where a different punishment is provided for a second or subsequent
+offense, the information or affidavit upon which the prosecution is
+based, must charge that it is the second or subsequent offense or
+the punishment shall be as for the first offense. (R.S. Sec. 3781a.)
+
+
+Sec. 13436. Repealed. (108 O.L., 1203.)
+
+
+Sec. 13437. [=New trial.=] In such prosecutions, if there is a
+verdict for conviction, a new trial may be granted for like reasons
+and subject to like conditions as a new trial in criminal cases in
+the court of common pleas. (R.S. Sec. 3718a.)
+
+
+Sec. 13438. [=Fees of jurors and witnesses.=] In such prosecutions,
+the jurors shall be entitled to the same mileage and fees as in the
+criminal cases in the court of common pleas. (R.S. Sec. 3718a; Am.
+108 O.L., 1221.)
+
+
+Sec. 13439. [=Costs.=] In such prosecutions, no costs shall be
+required to be advanced or secured by a person authorized by law to
+prosecute. (R.S. Sec. 3718a; Am. 108 O.L., 1221.)
+
+
+
+=RELATIVE TO EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS.=
+
+
+=Sixteen years: age limit for following occupations.=
+
+
+Sec. 13001. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be
+employed, permitted or suffered to work at any of the following
+occupations or any of the following positions: (1) adjusting any
+belt to any machinery; (2) sewing or lacing machine belts in any
+workshop or factory; (3) oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery or
+assisting therein; (4) operating or assisting in operating any of
+the following machines (a) circular or band saws; (b) wood shapers;
+(c) wood jointers; (d) planers; (e) sandpaper or woodpolishing
+machinery; (f) woodturning or boring machinery; (g) picker machines
+or machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair or any other
+material; (h) carding machines; (i) paper-lace machines; (j)
+leather-burnishing machines; (k) job or cylinder printing presses
+operated by power other than foot power; (l) boring or drill
+presses; (m) stamping machines used in sheetmetal and tinware, or in
+paper and leather manufacturing, or in washer and nut factories; (n)
+metal or paper cutting machines; (o) corner staying machines in
+paper box factories; (p) corrugating rolls, such as are used in
+corrugated paper, roofing or washboard factories; (q) steam boilers;
+(r) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description; (s) wire
+or iron straightening or drawing machinery; (t) rolling mill
+machinery; (u) power punches or shears; (v) washing, grinding or
+mixing machinery; (w) calendar rolls in paper and rubber
+manufacturing; (x) laundering machines; (y) burring machinery; (5)
+or in proximity to any hazardous or unguarded belts, machinery or
+gearing; (6) or upon any railroad, whether steam, electric or
+hydraulic; (7) or upon any vessel or boat engaged in navigation or
+commerce within the jurisdiction of this state.
+
+
+=Sixteen years: age limit for following industries.=
+
+
+Sec. 13002. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be
+employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity (1) in,
+about or in connection with any processes in which dangerous or
+poisonous acids are used; (2) nor in the manufacture or packing of
+paints, colors, white or red lead; (3) nor in soldering; (4) nor in
+occupation causing dust in injurious quantities; (5) nor in the
+manufacture or use of dangerous or poisonous dyes; (6) nor in the
+manufacture or preparation of compositions with dangerous or
+poisonous gases; (7) nor in the manufacture or use of compositions
+of lye in which the quantity thereof is injurious to health; (8) nor
+on scaffolding; (9) nor in heavy work in the building trades; (10)
+nor in any tunnel or excavation; (11) nor in, about or in connection
+with _any mine, coal breaker, coke oven, or quarry_; (12) nor in
+assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco; (13) nor in operating
+any automobile, motor car or truck; (14) nor in a bowling alley;
+(15) nor in a pool or billiard room; (16) nor in any other
+occupation dangerous to the life and limb or injurious to the health
+or morals of such child.
+
+
+=Employer to furnish satisfactory evidence of age.=
+
+
+Sec. 13007-1. An inspector of factories, attendance officer, or
+other officer charged with the enforcement of the laws relating to
+the employment of minors or school attendance may make demand on any
+employer in or about whose place or establishment or material or
+equipment a person apparently under the age of eighteen years is
+employed or permitted or suffered to work, and whose employment
+certificate is not filed as required by this act, that such employer
+shall furnish him satisfactory evidence that such person is in fact
+over eighteen years of age. The inspector of factories, attendance
+officer, or other officer charged with the enforcement of such laws,
+shall require from such employer unless an overage certificate is
+held by the employe the same evidence of age of such child as is
+required upon the issuance of an age and schooling certificate.
+Failure of such employer to produce such evidence shall be deemed a
+violation of the laws relating to the employment of minors.
+
+
+=Failure to produce satisfactory evidence of age.=
+
+
+Sec. 13007-2. In case any employer shall fail to produce and deliver
+to a factory inspector, truant officer, or other officer charged
+with the enforcement of this act, within ten days after demand made
+pursuant to section 13007-1 of this act, the evidence of age therein
+required, proof of the making of such demand and of such failure to
+produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence of the
+illegal employment of such child in any prosecution brought
+therefor.
+
+
+=Age and schooling certificate; by whom approved.=
+
+
+Sec. 7766. An age and schooling certificate may be issued only by
+the superintendent of schools and only upon satisfactory proof that
+the child to whom the certificate is issued is over sixteen years of
+age and has satisfactorily passed a test for the completion of the
+work of the seventh grade, provided that residents of other states
+who work in Ohio must qualify as aforesaid with the proper school
+authority in the school district in which the establishment is
+located, as a condition of employment or service.
+
+Any such age and schooling certificate may be issued only upon
+satisfactory proof that the employment contemplated by the child is
+not prohibited by any law regulating the employment of such
+children; and when the employer of any minor for whom such age and
+schooling certificate shall have been issued shall keep such age and
+schooling certificate on file as provided by law, the provisions of
+section 6245-2, General Code, shall not apply to such employer in
+respect to such child while engaged in an employment legal for a
+child of the given sex and of the age stated therein.
+
+Age and schooling certificate forms shall be formulated by the
+superintendent of public instruction, and except in cases otherwise
+specified by law must be printed on white paper. Every such
+certificate must be signed in the presence of the officer issuing it
+by the child in whose name it is issued. Blank certificates shall be
+furnished by the superintendent of public instruction upon request.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-1. The superintendent of schools shall not issue such
+certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the
+following papers duly executed:
+
+(1) The written pledge or promise of the person, partnership or
+corporation to legally employ the child, to permit him to attend
+school as provided in section 7767, General Code, and to return to
+the superintendent of schools the age and schooling certificate of
+the child or give notice of the non-use thereof within two days from
+the date of the child's withdrawal or dismissal from the service of
+that person, partnership or corporation, giving the reasons for such
+withdrawal or dismissal.
+
+(2) The school record of the child, properly filled out and signed
+by the person in charge of the school which the child last attended;
+giving the recorded age of the child, his address, standing in
+studies, rating in conduct, and attendance in days during the school
+year of his last attendance, and if that was not a full year, during
+the preceding school year.
+
+(3) Evidence of the age of the child as follows:
+
+(a) The birth certificate of the child (or duly attested transcript
+thereof) issued near the date of the birth of the child by the
+registrar of vital statistics of Ohio, or by a similar officer
+charged with the duty of recording births in another state or
+country, shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the child.
+
+(b) In the absence of such certificate, a passport (or duly attested
+transcript thereof) showing the date and place of birth of the
+child, filed with a register of passports at a port of entry of the
+United States; or a duly attested transcript of the certificate of
+birth or baptism or other religious record, showing the date and
+place of birth of the child, shall be conclusive evidence of the age
+of the child.
+
+(c) In case no one of the above proofs of age can be produced, other
+documentary evidence (except the affidavit of the parent, guardian
+or custodian) satisfactory to the superintendent of schools may be
+accepted in lieu thereof.
+
+(d) In case no documentary proof of age can be procured, the
+superintendent may receive and file an application signed by the
+parent, guardian or custodian of the child that a physician's
+certificate be secured to establish the sufficiency of the age of
+the child. Such application shall state the alleged age of the
+child, the place and date of birth, his present residence, and such
+further facts as may be of assistance in determining the age of the
+child, and shall certify that the person signing the application is
+unable to obtain any of the documentary proofs specified in (a), (b)
+and (c) above.
+
+If the superintendent of schools is satisfied that a reasonable
+effort to procure such documentary proof has been without success
+such application shall be granted and the certificate of the school
+physician or if there be none, of a physician employed by the board
+of education, that said physician is satisfied that the child is
+above the age required for an age and schooling certificate as
+stated in section 7766, General Code, shall be accepted as
+sufficient evidence of age.
+
+(4) A certificate from the school physician or physician designated
+by him, or if there be no school physician from the district health
+commissioner, or physician designated by him, showing after a
+thorough examination that the child is physically fit to be employed
+in such occupations as are not prohibited by law for a boy or girl,
+as the case may be, under eighteen years of age.
+
+But a certificate with the word limited written, printed or stamped
+diagonally across its face may be furnished by the school physician
+or other person indicated in the above sentence, and accepted by the
+superintendent of schools in issuing a "limited" age and schooling
+certificate provided in section 7766-3, General Code, showing that
+the child is physically fit to be employed in some particular
+occupation not prohibited by law for a boy or girl as the case may
+be of the child's age which the child contemplates entering even if
+the child's complete physical ability to engage in any occupation as
+required in the preceding sentence cannot be vouched for.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-2. When an age and schooling certificate, returned
+according to section 7766-1, General Code, is reissued, the pledge
+of the new employer and certificate from the school physician or
+other person in his stead shall be secured and filed.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-3. The age and schooling certificate provided in section
+7766, General Code, shall be issued only with the word "limited"
+printed or stamped diagonally across its face if the certificate of
+the physician provided in section 7766-1 or 7766-2, General Code, is
+a limited certificate and in that case the particular employment to
+which it is limited shall be stated in the certificate, and the
+certificate cannot serve as the legal age and schooling certificate
+for employment in another occupation. Such limited certificate shall
+be printed on pink paper.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-4. In order to ascertain whether applicants for age and
+schooling certificates have satisfactorily completed the school work
+prescribed in section 7766, General Code, the board of education of
+any city school district may appoint a juvenile examiner who shall
+receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board of education.
+When such a juvenile examiner is employed no such certificate shall
+be granted by the superintendent of schools of the district unless
+the juvenile examiner has certified that he has examined the child
+and that the child has passed to his satisfaction the grade test as
+provided by section 7766, General Code, provided, however, that if a
+child in the opinion of said juvenile examiner is below the normal
+in mental development so that he cannot with further schooling and
+due industry pass such test, such fact shall be certified to by said
+examiner and the superintendent of schools shall grant the child an
+age and school certificate printed on yellow paper with the words
+"Retarded-Schooling not Standard" written, printed or stamped
+diagonally across the face; and provided, further, that if the
+juvenile examiner is satisfied that the standard of any school is
+sufficiently high, he may accept the records thereof as showing that
+a child has passed the required test. In case no juvenile examiner
+is employed the superintendent of schools may proceed and determine
+in like manner; if after proper tests he determines that a child is
+below normal in mental development to the extent specified above, he
+shall grant such a "retarded" age and schooling certificate. If a
+child who desires an age and schooling certificate is granted a
+"retarded" certificate but secures only a limited health
+certificate; the word "limited" shall be written or stamped across
+the face of the "retarded" certificate and the limited "retarded"
+certificate shall be on yellow paper; in which case the certificate
+shall show to what employment it is limited.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-5. A record giving all the facts contained in every age
+and schooling certificate issued shall be kept on file in the office
+issuing the same; and also a record of the names and addresses of
+the children to whom certificates have been refused, together with
+the names of the schools and grades which such children should
+attend and the reasons for the refusals; and also a record of all
+certificates returned or no longer used, as provided in sections
+7766-1, (1), 7766-6 or 7766-9, General Code, with the reasons
+therefor, and the subsequent assignment of the child to a school, if
+any; and also a record of the conditions on which any certificates
+were issued, and there shall be kept on file also the pledges given
+in connection therewith; and also a record of the special facts
+connected with the issuing of "retarded" or limited certificates.
+The superintendent of public instruction shall have the power to
+prescribe methods of filing of all such facts, records and papers,
+for purposes of effective reference. The above-named record is
+nevertheless not required in the cases of certificates denied to
+those determined immediately at the time of inquiry to be of
+insufficient age.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-6. The superintendent of schools may issue a vacation
+certificate to a boy or girl under eighteen years of age and over
+fourteen years of age which shall permit him to be employed within
+the restrictions of other statutes during the summer school vacation
+up to August 25th, in occupations not forbidden by sections 13001,
+13002 or 13007-3, General Code, to children of his age and sex,
+regardless of what schooling he has completed, but before such
+certificate is issued the requirements prescribed in section 7766-1
+with relation to health, written pledge of employment, and proof of
+age must be complied with. Such vacation certificate shall be
+printed on blue or blue-tinted paper and the word "vacation" shall
+be printed or stamped across its face; such certificate shall
+include a statement of the school and grade in which the child is
+enrolled. Such certificates must be returned to the superintendent
+of schools by employers within the same period and under the same
+penalties as regular age and schooling certificates and may be
+revoked by the superintendent of schools at any time because of the
+physical condition of the child or other sufficient cause.
+
+If a child who desires a vacation age and schooling certificate
+secures only a limited health certificate the word "limited" shall
+be written or stamped across the face of the vacation certificate
+and the limited vacation certificate shall be on blue or blue-tinted
+paper; in which case the certificate shall show to what employment
+it is limited.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-7. Whenever the school record of a child as specified in
+section 7766-1, General Code, is required for the purpose of
+determining his eligibility to an age and schooling certificate,
+such record shall be furnished by the superintendent, principal,
+teacher or other official in charge of the public, private or
+parochial school attended by the child within two days after a
+request for the same is made by the parent, guardian or custodian of
+the child.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-8. Whenever an age and schooling certificate is applied
+for by a child over sixteen years of age who is unable to
+satisfactorily pass a test for the completion of the work of the
+seventh grade and who is not so below the normal in mental
+development that he cannot with further schooling and due industry
+pass such a test, an age and schooling certificate with the words
+"Conditional--Schooling not Standard" printed or stamped across its
+face may be issued by the superintendent of schools to such child
+upon proof acceptable to such superintendent of schools of the
+following facts and upon agreement to the respective conditions made
+in writing by the child and by the parent, guardian or custodian in
+charge of such child:
+
+(A) Facts to be proved:
+
+That the child is addicted to no habit which is likely to detract
+from his reliability or effectiveness as a worker, or proper use of
+his earnings or leisure, or the probability of his faithfully
+carrying out the conditions to which he agrees as specified in (B)
+below, and in addition any one of the following groups of facts--
+
+(1) That the child has been a resident of the school district for
+the last two or more years, has diligently attended upon instruction
+at school for the last two years or more, and is able to read, write
+and perform the fundamental operations of arithmetic. These
+abilities shall be judged by the juvenile examiner or if there be
+none, by the superintendent of schools.
+
+(2) That the child having been a resident of the school district
+less than two years, diligently attended upon instruction in school
+in the district or districts in which the child was a resident next
+preceding his residence in the present district for the last school
+year preceding his removal to the present district, and has
+diligently attended upon instruction in the schools of the present
+school district for the period that he has been a resident thereof.
+
+(3) That the child has removed to the present school district since
+the beginning of the last annual school session, and that
+instruction adapted to his needs is not provided in the regular day
+schools in the school district.
+
+(4) That the child is not sufficiently familiar with the English
+language to be properly instructed in the full-time day schools of
+the district.
+
+(5) That the child is needed for the support or care of a parent or
+parents or for the support or care of brothers or sisters for whom
+the parents are unable to provide and that the child is desirous of
+working for the support or care of such parents or siblings and that
+such child cannot render such needed support or care by a reasonable
+effort outside of school hours. But no age and schooling certificate
+shall be granted to a child upon proof of the facts in the preceding
+sentence without written consent given to the superintendent of
+schools by the judge of the juvenile court and by the board of state
+charities.
+
+(B) Conditions to be agreed to:--
+
+(1) In case the certificate is granted under facts (1), (2), (3) or
+(5) above, that until reaching the age of eighteen years the child
+will diligently attend in addition to part-time classes, such
+evening classes as will add to his education for literacy,
+citizenship or vocational preparation which may be made available to
+him in the school district and which he may be directed to attend by
+the superintendent of schools, or in case no such classes are
+available, that he will pursue such reading and study and report
+monthly thereon as may be directed by the superintendent of schools.
+
+(2) In case the certificate is granted under fact (4) above, that
+until the age of twenty-one years or until the person is eighteen
+years of age and has learned to read, write and speak the English
+language, the said person will attend in addition to part-time
+classes, such evening classes as will assist the person to learn the
+American language or advance in Americanization which may be made
+available to him in the school district and which he may be directed
+to attend by the superintendent of schools. Such conditional age and
+school certificate shall be printed on green paper. If a conditional
+age and schooling certificate is at the same time a limited
+certificate, the word "limited" shall be written or stamped
+diagonally across the face and the provisions of section 7766-3,
+General Code, shall apply except as to the color of the certificate.
+
+
+Sec. 7766-9. A special age and schooling certificate which shall
+permit a child to be employed during the hours that the school to
+which the holder is assigned is not in session, other than the
+summer vacation, or, where cooperative part-time classes approved by
+the state board of education have been established, shall permit a
+child to be employed on the alternate days, weeks, or periods, on
+which his division is assigned to such part-time employment may be
+issued to a child above fourteen years of age under all of the
+conditions other than age and education which apply to a regular age
+and schooling certificate and such additional conditions as the
+superintendent of schools may deem necessary. Such special age and
+schooling certificate shall entitle such child to engage in
+occupations not forbidden to such children by section 13001, 13002
+or 13007-3, General Code. Provided, however, that said sections
+13001, 13002 and 13007-3, shall not be interpreted in such a way as
+to prevent any pupil from working on any properly guarded machine in
+the manual training department of any school when such work is
+performed under the personal supervision of an instructor.
+
+No child under sixteen years of age shall be engaged in school and
+employment above nine hours altogether in any one day.
+
+Every special age and schooling certificate shall be limited and
+specific and shall be in such form as will show all essential facts,
+and the form thereof or directions for recording the facts thereon
+may be prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction.
+
+Such certificate shall be printed on light brown paper.
+
+Such certificate shall be returned to the superintendent of schools
+on or before the day that school adjourns for the summer vacation
+except when the co-operative part-time classes continue during the
+summer vacation. They shall be filed and returned by employers under
+the same conditions and penalties as apply to regular age and
+schooling certificates.
+
+(H.B. No. 111--109 O.L., 376.)
+
+
+
+=CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.=
+
+
+Sec. 154-1. In order that the governor may exercise the supreme
+executive power of the state vested in him by the constitution and
+adequately perform his constitutional duty to see that the laws are
+faithfully executed, the administrative functions of the state are
+organized as provided in this chapter.
+
+All powers vested in and duties imposed upon the lieutenant
+governor, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the
+treasurer of state and the attorney general by the constitution and
+the laws shall continue except as otherwise provided by this
+chapter.
+
+
+Sec. 154-2. As used in this chapter:
+
+"Department" means the several departments of state administration
+enumerated in section 154-3 of the General Code.
+
+"Division" means a part of a department established as provided in
+section 154-8 of the General Code, for the convenient performance of
+one or more of the functions committed to a department by this
+chapter.
+
+The phrase "departments, offices and institutions" includes every
+organized body, office and agency established by the constitution
+and laws of the state for the exercise of any function of the state
+government, and every institution or organization which receives any
+support from the state.
+
+
+Sec. 154-3. The following administrative departments are created:
+
+The department of industrial relations, which shall be administered
+by the director of industrial relations, hereby created;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The director of each department shall, subject to the provisions of
+this chapter, exercise the powers and perform the duties vested by
+law in such department.
+
+
+Sec. 154-4. Each director whose office is created by section 154-3
+of the General Code shall be appointed by the governor by and with
+the advice and consent of the senate, and shall hold his office
+during the pleasure of the governor.
+
+
+Sec. 154-5. In each department there shall be an assistant director,
+who shall be designated by the director to fill one of the offices
+within such department, enumerated in section 154-6 of the General
+Code, or as the head of one of the divisions created within such
+department as authorized by section 154-8 of the General Code. When
+a vacancy occurs in the office of director of any department, the
+assistant director thereof shall act as director of the department
+until such vacancy is filled.
+
+
+Sec. 154-6. Offices are created within the several departments as
+follows:
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  In the Department of Industrial Relations
+    Chiefs of divisions as follows:
+      Factory inspection
+      Labor statistics
+      Mines
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Sec. 154-7. The officers mentioned in sections 154-5 and 154-6 of
+the General Code shall be appointed by the director of the
+department in which their offices are respectively created, and
+shall hold office during the pleasure of such director.
+
+
+Sec. 154-8. The officers mentioned in sections 154-5 and 154-6 of
+the General Code shall be under the direction, supervision and
+control of the directors of their respective departments, and shall
+perform such duties as such directors shall prescribe.
+
+With the approval of the governor, the director of each department
+shall establish divisions within his department, and distribute the
+work of the department among such divisions. Each officer created by
+section 154-6 of the General Code shall be the head of such a
+division.
+
+With the approval of the governor, the director of each department
+shall have authority to consolidate any two or more of the offices
+created in his department by section 154-6 of the General Code, or
+to reduce the number of or create new divisions therein.
+
+The director of each department may prescribe regulations, not
+inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the
+conduct of its employes, the performance of its business and the
+custody, use and preservation of the records, papers, books,
+documents and property pertaining thereto.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Sec. 154-14. Each officer whose office is created by sections 154-3,
+154-5 and 154-6 of the General Code shall, before entering upon the
+duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath of office as
+provided by law and give bond, conditioned according to law, with
+security to be approved by the governor in such penal sum as shall
+be fixed by the governor, not less in any case than ten thousand
+dollars. Such bond and oath shall be filed in the office of the
+secretary of state.
+
+The director of each department may, with the approval of the
+governor, require any chief of a division created under the
+authority of this chapter, or any officer or employe in his
+department, to give like bond in such amount as the governor may
+prescribe. The premium, if any, on any bond required or authorized
+by this section may be paid from the state treasury.
+
+
+Sec. 154-15. The director of each department may, with the approval
+of the governor, establish and appoint advisory boards to aid in the
+conduct of the work of his department or any division or divisions
+thereof. Such advisory boards shall exercise no administrative
+function, and their members shall receive no compensation, but may
+receive their actual and necessary expenses.
+
+
+Sec. 154-16. Each officer whose office is created by sections 154-3,
+154-5 and 154-6 of the General Code shall devote his entire time to
+the duties of his office, and shall hold no other office or position
+of profit. In addition to his salary provided by law, each such
+officer and each member of the boards and commissions in the
+departments created by this chapter shall be entitled to his actual
+and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official
+duties.
+
+
+Sec. 154-17. Each department shall maintain a central office in the
+city of Columbus. The director of each department may, in his
+discretion and with the approval of the governor, establish and
+maintain, at places other than the seat of government, branch
+offices for the conduct of any one or more functions of his
+department.
+
+
+Sec. 154-18. Each department shall adopt and keep an official seal,
+which shall have engraved thereon the coat of arms of the state as
+described in section thirty of the General. Code, shall be one and
+three-fourths inches in diameter, and shall be surrounded by the
+proper name of the department, to which may be added the title of
+any division, board or commission within the department, if the
+director of the department shall so prescribe. Such seal may be
+affixed to any writs and authentications of copies of records and
+official papers, and to such other instruments as may be authorized
+by law or prescribed by the proper authority in any department to be
+executed. When so authenticated, any copy of such record, official
+paper, or other instrument shall be received in evidence in any
+court in lieu of the original.
+
+Each department shall provide for the keeping, within such
+department, of such records and journals as may be necessary to
+exhibit its official actions and proceedings.
+
+
+Sec. 154-19. Each department is empowered to employ, subject to the
+civil service laws in force at the time the employment is made, the
+necessary employes, and, if the rate of compensation is not
+otherwise fixed by law, to fix their compensation. Nothing in this
+chapter shall be construed to amend, modify or repeal the civil
+service laws of the state, except as herein expressly provided.
+
+All offices created by sections 154-5 and 154-6 of the General Code
+shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state.
+
+
+Sec. 154-20. All employes in the several departments shall render
+not less than eight hours, of labor each day, Saturday afternoons,
+Sundays and days declared by law to be holidays excepted in cases in
+which, in the judgment of the director, the public service will not
+thereby be impaired.
+
+Each employe in the several departments shall be entitled during
+each calendar year to fourteen days leave of absence with full pay.
+In special and meritorious cases where to limit the annual leave to
+fourteen days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship,
+it may, in the discretion of the of the department, be extended. No
+employe in the several departments, employed at a fixed
+compensation, shall be paid for any extra services, unless expressly
+authorized by law.
+
+
+Sec. 154-21. Under the direction of the governor, the directors of
+departments shall devise a practical and working basis for
+cooperation and coordination of work and for the elimination of
+duplication and overlapping functions. They shall, so far as
+practicable, cooperate with each other in the employment of services
+and the use of quarters and equipment. The director of any
+department may empower or require an employe of another department,
+subject to the consent of the superior officer of the employe, to
+perform any duty which he might require of his own subordinates.
+
+
+Sec. 154-22. Each department shall make and file a report of its
+transactions, and proceedings at the time and in the manner
+prescribed by section 2264-1 of the General Code.
+
+
+Sec. 154-23. Whenever power is vested in any of the departments
+created by this chapter, or in any other state department, board or
+commission, to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to
+procure assistance from another department, office or institution, a
+duty is hereby imposed upon the department, office or institution,
+upon which demand is made, whether created by this chapter or
+otherwise, to make such power effective.
+
+
+Sec. 154-24. Whenever rights, powers or duties which have heretofore
+been vested in or exercised by any officer, board, commission,
+institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate
+officer thereof, are, by this chapter, transferred, either in whole
+or in part, to or vested in a department created by this chapter, or
+any other department, office or institution, such rights, powers and
+duties shall be vested in, and shall be exercised by the department,
+office or institution to which the same are hereby transferred, and
+not otherwise; and every act done in the exercise of such rights,
+powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the
+former officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any
+deputy, inspector, or subordinate officer thereof. Every person,
+firm and corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and
+duties and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of
+such rights, powers and duties as if such rights, powers and duties
+were exercised by the officer, board, commission, department or
+institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated
+in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments
+created by this chapter. Every person, firm and corporation shall be
+subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for
+failure to perform any such obligation or duty, or for doing a
+prohibited act, as if such obligation or duty arose from, or such
+act were prohibited in, the exercise of such right, power or duty by
+the officer, board, commission or institution, or deputy, inspector
+or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are
+to be administered by departments created by this chapter. Every
+officer and employe shall, for any offense, be subject to the same
+penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by
+existing law for the same offense by any officer or employe whose
+powers or duties devolve upon him under this chapter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+=Department of Industrial Relations.=
+
+
+Sec. 154-45. The department of industrial relations shall have all
+powers and perform all duties vested by law in the industrial
+commission of Ohio, excepting the following:
+
+Those powers and duties of the commission which it exercises as
+successor of the state liability board of awards, the state board of
+arbitration, the board of boiler rules, and in the investigation,
+ascertainment and determination of standards, devices, safeguards,
+and means of protection, being all powers and duties mentioned in
+paragraphs 3 to 8, both inclusive, of section 871-22 of the General
+Code, sections 871-23, 871-26, 871-27, 871-28, 871-30, 871-32,
+871-33, 871-34 and 871-35, sections 1058-8 to 1058-12, both
+inclusive, 1058-16, 1063 to 1077, both inclusive, and sections
+1465-37 to 1465-108, both inclusive, of the General Code, and the
+powers of the commission as successor of the board of boiler rules
+under section 1058-18 of the General Code, which shall continue to
+be exercised and performed by the industrial commission of Ohio in
+the manner provided by law for the exercise of such powers and the
+performance of such duties.
+
+The industrial commission of Ohio shall be a part of the department
+of industrial relations for administrative purposes in the following
+respects: The director of industrial relations shall be ex-officio
+the secretary of said commission, shall succeed to and perform all
+of the duties of the secretary of said commission, and shall
+exercise all powers of said secretary as provided by law; but such
+director may designate any employe of the department as acting
+secretary to perform the duties and exercise the powers of secretary
+of the commission. All clerical, inspection and other agencies for
+the execution of the powers and duties vested in the said industrial
+commission shall be deemed to be in the department of industrial
+relations, and the employes thereof shall be deemed to be employes
+of said department and shall have and exercise all authority vested
+by law in the employes of such commission. But the industrial
+commission of Ohio shall have direct supervision and control over,
+and power of appointment and removal of, such employes whose
+position shall be designated by the governor as fully subject to the
+authority of such commission.
+
+The commission may appoint advisers, who shall without compensation
+assist the commission in the execution of the powers and duties
+retained by it under this section.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Sec. 2250. The annual salaries of the appointive state officers and
+employes herein enumerated shall be as follows:
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Department of Industrial Relations:
+    Director of industrial relations, six thousand five hundred
+      dollars.
+    Chief of division of factory inspection, three thousand six
+      hundred dollars.
+    Chief of division of labor statistics, three thousand
+      dollars.
+    Chief of division of mines, three thousand six hundred
+      dollars.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SECTION 3. Said original sections 243, 321, 496, 710-6, 840, 1170,
+(enacted as section 93 of an act entitled "An Act to create the
+agricultural commission of Ohio and to prescribe its organization",
+etc., approved May 3, 1913, (103 Ohio Laws 323)), 1170, (enacted as
+section 1 of an act entitled "An Act to create a board of control
+for the Ohio agricultural experiment station", etc., approved April
+8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws, 122)), 1171, 1172, (enacted as section 95 of
+an act entitled "An Act to create the agricultural commission of
+Ohio and to prescribe its organization", etc., approved May 3, 1913
+(103 Ohio Laws, 324)), 1172, (enacted as section 7 of an act entitled
+"An Act to create a board of control for Ohio agricultural
+experiment station", etc., approved April 8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws,
+123)), 1173, (enacted as section 96 of an act entitled "An Act to
+create the agricultural commission of Ohio and to prescribe its
+organization", etc., approved May 3, 1913, (103 Ohio Laws, 324)),
+1173, (enacted as section 8 of an act entitled "An Act to create a
+board of control for the Ohio agricultural experiment station",
+etc., approved April 8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws, 123)), 1178, 1233,
+1261-2, 1807, 1857, 1931-1, 2248, 2250, 2288-1 as enacted by the act
+approved March 29, 1917 (107 O.L. 457), 2312, 2313 and 7939 of the
+General Code, and sections 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 146, 147, 148, 149,
+150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 196-1, 196-2, 196-3, 196-16, 196-18, 199,
+242-1, 242-2, 270-1, 270-4, 270-5, 367-3, 367-4, 403-1, 406, 408,
+409, 498, 615, 616, 618, 619, 620, 674, 675, 744-14, 744-15, 744-16,
+744-17, 744-19, 744-20, 744-23, 746, 747, 752, 788, 789, 790, 791,
+798-2, 798-4, 708-8, 799, 800, 801, 820, 821, 822, 823, 842, 844,
+845, 848, 871-46, 871-47, 905, 982, 1079, 1079-1, 1080, 1081, 1083,
+1084, 1087, 1087-2, 1088, 1089, 1089-1, 1099, 1123, 1171-2, 1171-3,
+1177-22, 1177-23, 1177-24, 1177-25, 1179, 1180, 1183, 1232-1,
+1233-1, 1236-2, 1261-1, 1440, 1465-8, 1465-43, 1808, 1809, 1833,
+1834, 1836, 1837, 1841-7, 1861 and 5227 of the General Code are
+hereby repealed.
+
+
+SECTION 4. Every officer and employe in the classified civil service
+of the state civil service at the time this act takes effect shall
+be assigned to a position in the proper department created by this
+act, and, so far as possible, to duties equivalent to his former
+office or employment; and such officers and employes shall be
+employes of the state in the classified civil service of the state
+of the same standing, grade and privileges which they respectively
+had in the office, board, department, commission or institution from
+which they were transferred, subject, however, to existing and
+future civil service laws. This section shall not be construed to
+require the retention of more employes than are necessary to the
+proper performance of the functions of such departments.
+
+All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal,
+and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and
+duties by this act transferred to or vested in a department created
+by this act, or to or in any other office, department or
+institution, at the time this act takes effect shall be delivered
+and transferred to the department, office or institution succeeding
+to such rights, powers and duties.
+
+This act shall not affect any act done, ratified or affirmed, or any
+right accrued or established, or any pending action, prosecution or
+proceedings, civil or criminal, at the time it takes effect; nor
+shall this act effect causes of such action, prosecution or
+proceeding existing at the time it takes effect; but such actions,
+prosecutions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued, or
+instituted and prosecuted, by or before the department having
+jurisdiction or power under this act of the subject matter to which
+such action, prosecution or proceeding pertains.
+
+If the senate is not in session at the time initial appointments are
+to be made under this act, the governor shall make temporary
+appointments as in case of a vacancy, to all offices required by
+this act to be filled by appointment by the governor by and with the
+advice and consent of the senate, unless the initial appointments
+are otherwise provided for in this act.
+
+If this act shall go into effect prior to the expiration of the
+present fiscal year, the present existing departments, bureaus,
+offices, boards, commissions, and other organizations of the state
+government affected by this act shall continue, and the officers and
+employes therein shall continue to serve until the expiration of the
+present fiscal year for which appropriations have been made, unless
+their terms of office expire prior thereto; and the reorganization
+herein provided for shall be put into effect and the officers whose
+positions are hereby created shall assume their duties at the
+commencement of the succeeding fiscal year.
+
+
+SECTION 5. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency law
+necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health
+and safety. The reasons for such necessity lie in facts, which
+two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the general
+assembly have considered, found and determined and which are
+separately set forth herein, as follows:
+
+The eighty-third general assembly created a joint legislative
+committee to "investigate all of the * * * offices which have been
+created by the general assembly * * * with a view of * * * combining
+and centralizing the duties of the various departments, eliminating
+such as are useless and securing for the state of Ohio such a
+reorganization of its governmental activities as will promote
+greater efficiency and greater economy therein." Said committee made
+exhaustive investigations and published numerous reports, declaring
+the necessity of reorganizing fundamentally the executive branch of
+the state government in order to promote efficiency and conserve the
+public funds. Upon the organization of the eighty-fourth general
+assembly, special committees were appointed in each house thereof to
+consider the recommendations of the former joint committee. The
+governor, in his message to the general assembly, recommended action
+along the general lines indicated by the former committee's report.
+Wide publicity has been given to various projected plans of
+reorganization.
+
+According to the annual reports of the auditor of state, the
+balances subject to draft in the general revenue fund of the state,
+from which many of the activities of the state government are
+supported, had shrunk from more than two million dollars on June
+30th, 1919, to less than one million dollars on June 30th, 1920,
+(all of which, and more, was covered by unlapsed appropriations for
+the preceding fiscal year), clearly indicating the immediate
+necessity either for increasing the revenues of the state, or for
+effecting such a reorganization of the state administration as would
+tend to conserve the present revenues. General economic conditions
+make increased taxes highly undesirable at the present time.
+
+At the convening of the eighty-fourth general assembly numerous
+vacancies existed in various state offices and in various state
+boards, and other like vacancies have occurred since that time. By
+reason of the known probability of a reorganization such as is
+embodied in this act, persons appointed to fill such vacancies have
+uncertain tenure and are thereby deterred from initiating and
+carrying through definite administrative policies; and in several
+instances such appointments have been accepted temporarily only,
+pending early reorganization.
+
+As a result of all the foregoing, the state service in the
+appointive state departments, shown by said investigations to be
+wasteful and inefficient, is becoming increasingly demoralized. All
+of these departments exercise functions pertaining to the protection
+of the public health, the conservation of the public peace and
+morals, or the promotion of the public safety. The necessity of
+placing their functions upon a sound, economical, permanent and
+secure basis is great and immediate.
+
+The appropriations for the current expenses of the state government
+and institutions which must be made by the eighty-fourth general
+assembly for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1st, 1921, cannot be
+effectually apportioned nor their amounts fixed unless the
+reorganization effected by this act is operative during the period
+to be covered by such appropriations, so that the departments and
+offices of the state government are definitely determined; and such
+determination must be made and the framework of the executive branch
+of the state government must be definitely established and known at
+the time the general assembly is considering such appropriations.
+
+Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.
+
+Passed April 19, 1921.
+
+Approved April 26, 1921.
+
+                                    RUPERT BEETHAM,
+                      _Speaker of the House of Representatives_.
+
+                                  CLARENCE J. BROWN,
+                              _President of the Senate_.
+
+    HARRY L. DAVIS, _Governor_.
+
+Filed in office of Secretary of State, April 26, 1921.
+
+(109 O.L., 105.)
+
+
+
+
+=INDEX.=
+
+
+
+INDEX                                      SECTIONS.
+
+
+=A.=
+
+Abandoned mines--precautions when
+  approaching                              938
+
+Accidents--
+  fatal--duty of inspectors                907
+  fatal--notice to chief inspector and
+    coroner                                940
+  fatal--coroner's duty                    921
+  superintendent's duty                    951
+  provisions for persons injured           934
+  action in case of                        972
+
+Access to mines by inspectors              912
+
+Acetylene gas in mines                     974-1
+
+Penalty of                                 974-3
+
+Action for non-compliance with Statutes    916
+
+Act shall not create new office, etc.      920
+
+Additional openings                        950
+
+Airway obstruction                         960
+
+Alternating current                        948
+
+Annual report of owner, lessee or agent
+  to chief inspector                       940
+
+Appliances--Safe                           927-928
+
+Appointments--
+  chief inspector and qualifications       899
+  district inspectors and qualifications   900-901
+
+Appropriation of land                      968
+
+Assistant mine-foreman--
+  duties of                                952, 953, 959
+  penalty for non-compliance               976
+
+Attendant--Rescue car                      915
+
+Automatic doors                            923, 943, 958
+
+
+=B.=
+
+Blasting                                   956
+
+Blasting powder                            962-963
+
+Boilers--location of                       944
+
+Bonds--
+  weighmaster                              966
+
+Board of examiners                         919
+
+Breakthroughs                              926
+
+Brattices                                  926
+
+
+=C.=
+
+Cages--
+  Safe appliances                          927
+  protection of, etc.                      928
+  lowering and hoisting, No. persons,
+    etc.                                   929, 959
+
+Caution board                              959
+
+Checkweighmen--
+  duties of                                970
+  penalty for non-compliance               976
+
+Check-measurer--
+  duties of                                970
+  penalty for non-compliance               976
+
+Child labor                                13001, 13002,
+                                           13007-1-2, 7766
+
+Circuit breakers                           947
+
+Closing of doors                           923, 943, 958
+
+Committee of miners--
+  Report of                                906-967
+
+Code of signals                            942
+
+Conveying of explosives                    962
+
+Construction of new mines                  949
+
+Copper tools                               963
+
+Coroner--
+  duties of                                921
+  penalty for non-compliance               976
+
+Coal dust--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           944
+  duty of miner                            956
+
+Combustible matter--removal of             944, 956
+
+Complaint against chief and district
+  inspectors                               918-919
+
+Crossing public highway                    971
+
+Controversy or disagreement between
+  district inspector and owner, lessee or
+  agent                                    910
+
+
+=D.=
+
+Damages caused by examination              969
+
+Dangerous places fenced--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           925
+  duty of superintendent and mine-foreman  952
+  duty of miner                            956
+
+Danger signal                              925, 959
+
+Defraud--intent to                         960
+
+Department of Industrial Relations         154-1
+
+Detaching locomotive--traveling ways       932
+
+Disagreement between district inspector
+  and owner, lessee or agent               910
+
+District inspectors--
+  duties of                                909
+
+District inspectors as sealers of weights
+  and measures                             910
+
+Discretionary power of mining department   911
+
+Doors                                      923, 943, 958
+
+Drivers                                    958
+
+Dust and fine coal--
+  duties of owner, lessee or agent         944
+  duty of miner                            956
+
+Duties of assistant mine-foreman           952, 953, 959
+
+Duties of chief and district inspectors    906, 915
+
+Duties of chief and oil and gas well
+  inspector relating to oil and gas wells  914
+
+Duties of coroner                          921
+
+Duties of check-weighman                   970
+
+Duties of check-measurer                   970
+
+Duties of employes                         956
+
+Duties of fire-boss                        925, 955, 959
+
+Duties of machine-men                      957
+
+Duties of miners                           956
+
+Duties of mine-foreman                     952, 953, 959
+
+Duties of over-seer                        954, 965
+
+Duties of recorder                         921-937
+
+Duties of superintendent                   951
+
+Duties of stableman                        955
+
+Duties of trip-riders and motormen         943, 958, 961
+
+Duties of weighmaster                      966
+  (For penalties, see Section 976.)
+
+
+=E.=
+
+Egress when inundation is probable         932
+
+Electricity--
+  application of                           947-948
+  discretionary power of chief and
+    district inspectors                    911
+
+Emergency appliances                       927
+
+Engineers                                  927
+
+Employes--duties of                        956-963
+
+Employment of minors                       944
+
+Examination of mine--damages caused by     969
+
+Examination and survey of mine             969
+
+Examination of working places--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           925
+  duty of mine-foreman                     952
+  duty of fire-boss                        955
+  duty of miner                            956
+  when unsafe                              953
+
+Examination of other than working places   925
+
+Examination of machinery, ventilating
+  current                                  967
+
+Examination of mine by fire-boss           925, 955, 959
+
+Examination of mine--right of employes     906, 967
+
+Examiners--board of                        918-919
+
+Explosives                                 962-963
+
+
+=F.=
+
+Fatal accidents--
+  duty of inspectors                       907
+  notice to chief inspector and coroner    940
+  coroner's duty                           921
+  superintendent's duty                    951
+  provisions for                           934
+  action in case of                        972
+
+Fire-boss--duties of                       925, 955, 959
+
+Fire in stable--must not be taken into     960
+
+Fire protection                            930
+
+Fine coal or coal dust--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           944
+  duty of miner                            956
+
+Fines collected                            977
+
+
+=G.=
+
+Gauges--pressure                           924
+
+Gasoline in mines                          946
+
+
+=H.=
+
+Haulage--rope                              943, 958
+
+Haulage trips--persons not permitted to
+  ride                                     961
+
+Hoisting and lowering of persons           927, 929, 959
+
+
+=I.=
+
+Illuminating oil                           974-975
+
+Illuminants                                974-2
+
+Industrial Relations Department            154-1
+
+Injured persons--provisions for            934
+
+Inundation                                 932, 938
+
+Inexperienced miners                       965
+
+Injuries to mine                           960
+
+Intoxicants--prohibition of                959
+
+Intent to defraud                          960
+
+Injury to persons or property--right of
+  action                                   972
+
+
+=J.=
+
+Justices of peace, etc.                    13432
+
+
+=L.=
+
+Lamps--size of                             961
+
+Land--appropriation of                     968
+
+Lien on property for labor                 972
+
+Light in mines                             943
+
+Light or signal on locomotive and train    943
+
+Loitering                                  959
+
+Lowering and hoisting of persons           929, 950
+
+Locomotives in mines                       943, 958
+
+Locomotives in mines--detaching            932
+
+
+=M.=
+
+Maps--
+  duty of chief inspector                  917
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           935
+  addition to previous                     936
+  abandoned mine map                       937
+  persons entitled to examine              904
+
+Machine men--duties of                     957
+
+Machine shields--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           941
+  duty of machine men                      957
+
+Machinery--examination of                  967
+
+Miners--duties of                          956
+
+Mine-foreman--duties of                    952, 953, 959
+
+Miner--qualifications of                   965
+
+Miner--inexperienced                       965
+
+Minors employed                            13001, 13002,
+                                           13007-1-2, 7766
+  duty of inspectors                       912
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           944
+  duty of mine-foreman                     953
+
+Mines, new--construction of                949
+
+Mine lamps                                 961
+
+Mine committee report                      906, 967
+
+Motormen and trip riders--duties of        943, 958, 961
+
+Monthly report of mine-foreman to chief
+  inspector                                953
+
+
+=N.=
+
+New mines--construction of                 949
+
+New office--shall not create               920
+
+Notice to chief inspector--when must be
+  given                                    939
+
+Notice to chief inspector and coroner of
+  accidents                                940
+
+Non-compliance with Statutes--action for   916
+
+
+=O.=
+
+Office--shall not create new               920
+
+Office--chief deputy                       904
+
+Oil--
+  illuminating                             974, 975
+  quantity allowed in mine                 944
+
+Oil lamp--size of                          961
+
+Oil and gas wells                          973
+
+Oil and gas wells--duty of chief oil and
+  gas well inspector                       914
+
+Openings--
+  additional                               950
+  second                                   930
+
+Over-seer--duties of                       954, 965
+
+
+=P.=
+
+Penalties--
+  Acetylene                                974-3
+  County coroner                           976
+  Check-weighman                           976
+  Check-Measurer                           976
+  Employes                                 976
+  Fire-boss                                976
+  Foreman                                  976
+  Mine-foreman                             976
+  Non-employes                             976
+  Owner, lessee or agent                   976
+  Over-seer                                976
+  Oil and gas well companies               976
+  Oil manufacturers                        976
+  Oil dealers                              976
+  Oil (persons using illegal)              976
+  Superintendent                           976
+  Stableman                                976
+  Weighmaster                              976
+
+Persons injured--provision for             934
+
+Persons on cage--number allowed            929, 959
+
+Persons not permitted to ride haulage
+  trips                                    961
+
+Persons not employes--relating to          964
+
+Powder                                     962-963
+
+Pressure gauges                            924
+
+Precautions approaching abandoned mines    938
+
+Props--supplying of                        953
+
+Prosecutions                               978
+
+
+=Q.=
+
+Quantity of hay allowed in mine            945
+
+Quantity of oil allowed in mine            944
+
+Quantity of gasoline allowed in mine       946
+
+Quantity of powder allowed in mine         962
+
+Qualifications of miner                    965
+
+Qualifications and appointment of chief
+  inspector                                899
+
+Qualifications and appointment of
+  district inspectors                      901
+
+
+=R.=
+
+Recorder's duty                            921, 937
+
+Records--who entitled to examine           904
+
+Regulations of weighing coal               978-1-7
+
+Repeals                                    978
+
+Report of fire-boss                        925, 955, 959
+
+Report of owner, lessee or agent to
+  chief inspector                          939, 940
+
+Report of district inspector to chief
+  inspector                                913
+
+Right of action                            972
+
+Reorganization of State Departments        154-1
+
+Report of mine committee                   906, 967
+
+Report of mine-foreman to chief
+  inspector, monthly                       953
+
+Rescue apparatus                           915
+
+Rescue stations                            915-1
+
+Refuge holes                               931
+
+Rope haulage                               943, 958
+
+Roof--miner shall prop, etc.               956
+
+
+=S.=
+
+Safe appliances for hoisting persons       927
+
+Safety appliances                          928
+
+Speaking tube                              928
+
+Safety lamps--
+  when owner shall provide                 941
+  oil for use in                           975
+
+Scales                                     910, 941
+
+Second opening                             930
+
+Shafts--fire protection                    930
+
+Shields--machine--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           941
+  duty of machine men                      957
+
+Signals--
+  code of                                  942
+  locomotive                               943
+  danger                                   925, 955, 959
+  persons designated to give and receive   929
+
+Solid shooting                             976-1-3
+
+Speaking tube                              928
+
+Squibs                                     963
+
+Stables--underground--
+  construction of                          945
+  fire must not be taken into              960
+  stablemen--duties of                     955
+
+Superintendent's duties                    951
+
+Surveying party--transportation of         969
+
+Survey of mine and examination             969
+
+Switches                                   947
+
+
+=T.=
+
+Tamping tools--kind permitted              963
+
+Telephones                                 934-2
+
+Test weights                               941
+
+Timber--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           933
+  duty of mine-foreman                     953
+  duty of miners                           956
+
+Trip riders and motormen--duties of        943, 958, 961
+
+Traveling ways and refuge holes            931
+
+Traveling ways--duty of employes           959
+
+Transportation of surveying party          969
+
+Trolley wires                              947
+
+
+=U.=
+
+Underground stables--
+  construction of                          945
+  fire must not be taken into              960
+  stablemen--duties of                     955
+  voltage                                  948
+
+
+=V.=
+
+Ventilation--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           922, 923, 924
+  duty of mine-foreman                     952, 953
+  report of mine committee                 906, 967
+  voltage                                  948
+
+
+=W.=
+
+Wash room                                  934-1
+
+Weigh scales                               910, 941
+
+Weighing of coal                           978-1-7
+
+Weighmaster--duties of                     966
+
+Weights and measures--sealers of           910
+
+Withdrawal of persons from mine            959
+
+When act takes effect                      978
+
+Who entitled to examine maps, records,
+  etc.                                     904
+
+Wires                                      947
+
+Working places--examination of--
+  duty of owner, lessee or agent           925
+  duty of mine-foreman                     952
+  duty of fire-boss                        955
+  duty of miner                            956
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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