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25-9-216
Section 25-9-216 Transportation of men. (a) Man-trips shall be operated at safe speeds consistent
with the condition of roads and type of equipment used, but not to exceed 12 miles an hour
in mine cars or 15 miles an hour when special, substantially covered man-trip cars are used.
(b) Each man-trip shall be under the charge of a responsible person and it shall be operated
independently of any loaded trip of coal or other material. (c) Cars on the man-trip shall
not be overloaded and sufficient cars in good mechanical condition shall be provided. (d)
No person shall ride under the trolley wire unless suitably covered man-cars are used. (e)
No material or tools shall be transported in the same mine car with men and all persons shall
ride inside of man-trip cars, except the motorman and brakeman or person in charge of the
man-trip. Where compartmented man-cars are used, tools or supplies, other than explosives,
secured so that they cannot cause injury to men in other compartments, may be...
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25-9-132
Section 25-9-132 Underground transportation of explosives and detonators. (a) Individual containers
used to carry permissible explosives or detonators shall be constructed of substantial, nonconductive
material, kept closed and maintained in good condition. (b) When explosives or detonators
are transported underground by locomotive, rope, or shuttle car they shall be in covered cars
or in special containers. (1) The bodies and covers of special cars and containers shall be
constructed of nonconductive material. (2) If explosives and detonators are hauled in the
same explosives car or in the same special containers, they shall be separated by at least
a four-inch substantially fastened hardwood partition or the equivalent. (3) Where quantities
of explosives and detonators are transported in special cars or in special containers in cars,
they shall be hauled on a special trip not connected to any other trip, and shall not be hauled
into or out of a mine within five minutes preceding or...
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25-9-86
Section 25-9-86 Examinations for gases and other dangerous conditions. (a) Operators of mines
are required to employ one or more certified fire bosses and to have a preshift examination
made. The duties of the fire boss are to examine for dangerous conditions all manways, slopes,
and entries used by men in traveling to and from work and to examine for gas and other dangerous
conditions all working places, adjoining abandoned places, and accessible pillar falls for
accumulation of gas. The fire boss will ascertain that the air is traveling in its proper
course and that all ventilation appliances are in good condition and working effectively.
The fire boss will indicate his examination of working and abandoned places, pillar falls,
and ventilating appliances by marking his initial and the date conspicuously in or on such
places. (b) Whenever gas is detected or danger exists to men entering any place, the fire
boss shall leave at each entrance to the place a conspicuous DANGER sign. (c)...
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25-9-215
Section 25-9-215 Safety devices and practices. (a) Locomotives shall be equipped with proper
devices for the rerailing of locomotives and cars. (b) An audible warning device and headlights
shall be provided on each locomotive. (c) Approved trip markers shall be used on the rear
of trips pulled or pushed and on the front of trips lowered into slopes. Markers are not required
to be used during gathering operations at working faces. Permissible trip lights, efficient
reflectors, or closed nonpermissible trip lights are acceptable as trip markers. (d) Other
than the motorman and trip rider, no person shall ride on a locomotive unless authorized by
the mine foreman, and no person shall ride on loaded cars or between cars of any trip; except,
that the trip rider may ride on the part of the trip adjudged safest by the mine foreman and
concurred in by the mine inspector, preferably the first or the last car. When officials or
other persons authorized by the mine foreman, trafficman, haulage...
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37-2-1
Section 37-2-1 "Transportation company" defined. The term "transportation company"
shall mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business
that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control, as common carriers or for
hire: Any railroad or part of a railroad in this state or any cars or other equipment used
thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks used in connection therewith, whether owned by
such railroad or otherwise; any express companies; any car companies; any sleeping car companies;
any steamboat or steam packet company or common carrier for hire by water regardless of the
propelling power used; any railroad depot or terminal station; any telegraph line; any telephone
line; any pipeline for the transportation of oil or other commodity, whether the transportation
is by pipeline or partly by pipeline and partly by rail, truck or water. This term shall also
mean and include two or more transportation companies rendering joint...
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13A-11-1
Section 13A-11-1 Definitions. The following definitions apply in this article: (1) OBSTRUCT.
To "obstruct" means to render impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
A gathering of persons to hear a person speak or otherwise communicate does not constitute
an obstruction. (2) PUBLIC PLACE. A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons
has access, and includes but is not limited to highways, transportation facilities, schools,
places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and hallways, lobbies and other portions of apartment
houses not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence; provided, that
no private dwelling and no place engaged for a private gathering is included within the meaning
of public place with respect to any person specifically invited therein. (3) TRANSPORTATION
FACILITY. Any conveyance, premises or place used for or in connection with public passenger
transportation, whether by air, railroad, motor vehicle or any other method....
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25-9-210
Section 25-9-210 Hoist engineers; signal codes, etc.; safety features of cages, hoist engines,
hoist ropes, and hoist shafts; hoisting of tools, timber, animals, etc. (a) Only competent
engineers shall be placed in charge of or permitted to operate any engine used for conveying
into and hoisting out of any coal mine. When men are being lowered or hoisted, an additional
engineer competent to act in emergencies shall be present at the hoist controls. At all times
when men are in the mine, a competent hoist engineer shall be available to receive notice
or signals requiring his presence at the hoist engine controls. No engineer shall be required
for automatically operated cages, elevators, or platforms. (1) Only authorized persons shall
enter the hoist engine room and no person shall interfere with or intimidate the hoist engineer
in the discharge of his duties. No person shall speak to the hoist engineer while the engine
is in motion, except to give signals to him. This subdivision shall...
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23-1-411
Section 23-1-411 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms have the following
meanings: (1) AIRPORT. Any area of existing land or man-made construction, except a restricted
landing area, that is currently used, made available, or designed for the landing and takeoff
of aircraft, whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter, servicing, maintenance,
or repair of aircraft, and whether or not facilities are provided for receiving and discharging
passengers or cargo, so long as such area meets the minimum requirements as to size, design,
surfacing, marking, equipment, and management provided by the department for airports owned
or operated by a political subdivision. A military airport under the control of the federal
government is an airport for purposes of this article. For purposes of this article, only
a publicly owned, public use airport shall be considered to be an airport; provided, however,
that a heliport shall not be considered to be an airport for...
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25-9-84
Section 25-9-84 Coursing of air. (a) Two available openings to the surface are required from
each seam or stratum of coal worked. In drift or slope mines, such openings provided after
August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 40 feet of natural strata, and all crosscuts
between them shall be closed with stoppings of fireproof material. In shaft mines, such openings
provided after August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 200 feet of natural strata.
The second opening may be made through an adjoining mine. Until these provisions are met,
not over five men in a drift, 10 men in a slope, and 20 men in a shaft shall work in the mine
at one time, and no additional development shall be permitted until the connection is made
to the second opening. In mines wherein final pillar robbing operations necessitate closing
the second opening, the above limitations as to the number of men permitted to work will apply
until the mine is worked out and abandoned. (b) Both openings...
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32-1-1.1
Section 32-1-1.1 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this title, for
the purpose of this title, shall have meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section,
except when the context otherwise requires: (1) ALLEY. A street or highway intended to provide
access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the
purpose of through vehicular traffic. (2) ARTERIAL STREET. Any United States or state numbered
route, controlled-access highway, or other major radial or circumferential street or highway
designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial
system of streets or highways. (3) AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such fire department vehicles,
police vehicles, and ambulances as are publicly owned, and such other publicly or privately
owned vehicles as are designated by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
or the chief of police of an incorporated city. (4) BICYCLE....
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