MINING LAWS OF OHIO, 1921 ***

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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