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...l be appointed and employed under such conditions and qualifications as set forth in those chapters.

...y, or malfeasance in office against any deputy mine inspector are made and filed with the chief of the division of mineral resources management, signed by not less than fifteen employees, or an owner, lessee, or agent of a mine, the chief shall promptly investigate such charges and advise in writing the complainant whose name appears first in the charges, the result of such investigation. If the mine employs less th...

...y, or malfeasance in office against the deputy mine inspector are filed with the chief of the division of mineral resources management, signed by not less than fifteen employees, or otherwise as provided in section 1561.50 of the Revised Code, or the owner, lessee, or agent of a mine, and the signers of the charges are dissatisfied with the result of the investigation made by the chief, they may appeal to the reclam...

...ant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.

...es any section of this chapter or any order of the chief of the division of mineral resources management is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...pt for section 1563.11 of the Revised Code, nothing in this chapter applies to activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code.

...he Revised Code. If such sample of air contains less than one half of one per cent of methane and if no other sample of air, taken in any of the open workings of such mine within twenty-four hours of the time such first-mentioned sample was taken, is, upon analysis by said laboratory, found to contain one fourth of one per cent or more of methane, such mine is not a gaseous mine unless a sample of air thereafter tak...

...h mine to be made at such time as the second opening required by section 1563.14 of the Revised Code is completed in such mine. Such map shall be made on a scale not less than two hundred feet per inch and shall show: (A) The boundary lines and the 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 a...

...The operator of each underground mine shall have a survey made whenever the workings of the mine have extended four hundred feet in any direction from the point shown on the map by the last survey of such mine, but not more often than once every six months, or whenever such mine is to be abandoned or shut down for a sufficient period of time to make it impossible to survey the working faces as prescribed by this sect...

..., 1563.04, and 1563.42 of the Revised Code, within sixty days after being directed to do so by the chief of the division of mineral resources management, the chief 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 in any court of competent jurisdiction in th...

...urpose of making the examinations provided for in this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. and applicable provisions of Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, and each deputy mine inspector, may enter any mine at a reasonable time, by day or by night, but in such manner as will not necessarily impede the working of the mine, and the owner, lessee, ...

...d 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.

...When the affidavit has been made, and notice given, as provided in section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, upon the application of the person giving notice, the person in charge of the 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 with a competent guide, and supply them with necessary and proper lamps. The person req...

...owning or operating a mine shall not hinder or obstruct an examination or survey under section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, if made at a reasonable time, in a reasonable manner, and as provided by law. If the owner or lessee of a mine sustains damage for which compensation should be made because such examination or survey was made at an unreasonable time, or in an improper or unwarranted manner, the person making su...

...ns 1563.08 and 1563.09 of the Revised Code, 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. The statute of limitations shall n...

...th such additional data and information concerning such work as such public authority may request and that shall be relevant, in making the determination that such public authority is required to make as to the amount of bond or other security the applicant shall be required to deposit before such a permit is issued to the applicant. Upon receipt of such an application such public authority shall promptly consider w...

...No owner, lessee, or agent shall conduct mining operations within twenty-five feet of any known well, or locate a mine opening within three hundred feet of any well that produces oil or gas unless the owner, lessee, or agent obtains permission in writing from the chief of the division of mineral resources management.

...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 is extended beyond a break-through 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. (B) A substantial structur...

...When a deputy mine inspector considers that the ways and means of egress in any underground mine from the interior working places to the surface are inadequate as a safe and ready means of escape in case of emergency, from danger of fire at any point, or any other cause that may result in the entombment of persons working in the mine, the deputy mine inspector shall give notice in writing to the owner, lessee, or age...

...wed at any one time in any mine until a connection has been made between the two mine openings. Such connections shall be made as quickly as possible. (B) A mine in which the second opening has become unavailable for any reason, so long as not more than twenty persons are employed therein at any one time and are engaged in the process of restoring the second opening or developing a new opening; (C) A mine in which ...

...ployed therein, the operator shall provide and maintain and additional opening by means of which such persons may escape without using the traveling or escapement way likely to be inundated. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...main or principal air currents shall be controlled by double doors to form an air lock, said doors to be self-closing and to be a sufficient distance apart to accommodate any trip that may be handled through them, thus having one door closed at all times. At all points where double doors are impracticable and single doors are used, there must be an attendant in charge of said door unless a self-closing door approved ...

...anent inlet and outlet airways shall be constructed in a substantial manner of brick, masonry, concrete, or nonperishable material, provided that in hand-loading and nongaseous mines such brattices may be of wood. In mines generating firedamp, so as to be detected by a flame safety lamp, the air current shall be conducted by brattice, or other means, near enough to the working face to expel the firedamp, and prevent ...

...ine 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 at least one opening to the surface. One of such traveling ways may be designated by such operator as the principal traveling way. One of such traveling ways shall be designated as the escapement way, which shall be properly ma...

...or of a mine worked by shaft shall provide, and keep free from obstruction, a traveling way or passageway from one side of the shaft bottom to the other. Slopes and mechanical haulageways 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 side of car or mechanical device to permit persons to pass moving cars ...