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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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25-9-134
Section 25-9-134 Blasting practices and procedures generally. (a) Only competent persons shall
be designated or permitted to handle explosives or do blasting. Only electric detonators of
proper strength may be used and the use of delay electric detonators is prohibited for blasting
coal or coal and other material. Primers shall be made up as needed for blasting and prepared
in accordance with the safety standards of the Institute of Makers of Explosives or of the
manufacturer of the explosives as approved by the chief; provided, however, that nothing provided
in this subsection shall prohibit the use of permissible millisecond blasting in conformity
with the requirements, exceptions, limitations, conditions, and restrictions on the use thereof
established or hereinafter established by the Bureau of Mines of the United States Department
of the Interior. (b) Care shall be used in placement and drilling of holes. Test roof, face,
ribs and timbers for dangerous conditions before drilling...
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25-9-80
Section 25-9-80 Main fans. (a) All main fans shall be installed on the surface, in fireproof
housings, the fan situated not less than 30 feet from its air shaft or air course and on one
side of the line of such opening so that the fan will not be in direct line of the force of
a blast or explosion. The air duct connecting the fan with the mine opening shall be fireproof
and provided with self-closing explosion doors. (b) In mines ventilated with multiple fans,
each main fan shall be equipped with fireproof doors automatically closing in the event of
a fan failure to prevent air reversal through the fan. (c) Every main fan installed after
August 12, 1949, ventilating a mine classed as gassy, must have an auxiliary drive mechanism
that will operate the fan at not less than 80 percent of its regular volume. Dual fan installations,
independently powered so that one is operative at 80 percent of regular volume during electrical
failures, meet this requirement. (d) All main fans are required...
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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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25-9-17
Section 25-9-17 Persons authorized to act as fire boss; temporary fire boss or mine foreman.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall act as fire boss in any
coal mine in this state unless he or she is in possession of a fire boss's certificate of
competency or a mine foreman's certificate of competency. (b) If it is impossible for an operator,
owner, or lessee to secure the immediate service of a certified mine foreman or fire boss,
he or she may employ a person, who holds a valid underground coal mine foreman certification
issued by another state, has worked in an underground mine in Alabama for at least 30 calendar
days, and meets the qualifications to work as a mine foreman in this state, as concurred in
by the chief, or mine inspector delegated by the chief, to act as a temporary mine foreman
or fire boss until the date of the next mine foreman examination that the person is eligible
to take. (c) The requirements for a temporary mine foreman or fire boss...
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25-9-190
Section 25-9-190 Testing and examination of roof, faces, ribs, etc.; correction of and precautions
against unsafe conditions. (a) It shall be the duty of the mine foreman and his subordinate
supervisors to ascertain that all workmen are trained in proper methods of testing the roof,
face, and ribs. The mine foreman shall designate the tool or tools to be used for testing.
(b) Face workers and other employees whose work exposes them to hazards of falls of rock and
coal shall thoroughly test the roof, face, and ribs before starting work or before starting
a machine and frequently thereafter. The required test may be made by any competent person
for a crew. No person shall start work in a place tested by another unless he is satisfied
as to the thoroughness of the test, or until after he himself has made a test. (c) If the
roof, face, or rib conditions are found to be unsafe, they shall be corrected by taking down
loose material or securely supporting the same before work is started. (d)...
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25-9-300
Section 25-9-300 Map of mine - Required; contents; filing; examination, etc. The owner, operator,
or lessee of any underground coal mine in this state shall make or cause to be made by a competent
engineer an accurate and exact detail map of said mine, showing the exact position of said
mine in reference to the section line, which shall be connected with known boundary lines
of the section or subdivision of the section. Such map shall show accurately the position
of any branches, creeks, rivers, railroads, oil and gas pipelines under which said mine workings
extend and, as near as possible, the position of any coal mines nearby. The location of all
oil and gas wells shall be shown on said map. Said maps shall show all shafts, slopes, tunnels,
or other openings to the surface or to the workings of a contiguous coal mine; all excavations,
entries, rooms, and crosscuts; the location of the fan and the direction of the air currents;
the location of pumps, hauling engines, engine planes,...
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40-23-4
Section 40-23-4 Exemptions. (a) There are exempted from the provisions of this division and
from the computation of the amount of the tax levied, assessed, or payable under this division
the following: (1) The gross proceeds of the sales of lubricating oil and gasoline as defined
in Sections 40-17-30 and 40-17-170 and the gross proceeds from those sales of lubricating
oil destined for out-of-state use which are transacted in a manner whereby an out-of-state
purchaser takes delivery of such oil at a distributor's plant within this state and transports
it out-of-state, which are otherwise taxed. (2) The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales,
of fertilizer when used for agricultural purposes. The word "fertilizer" shall not
be construed to include cottonseed meal, when not in combination with other materials. (3)
The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales, of seeds for planting purposes and baby chicks and
poults. Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt or exclude from the computation of...
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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued pursuant
to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface coal
mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and such
other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance standards
shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require
the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to maximize
the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that reaffecting
the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore the land
affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting
prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so
long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections
as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to
license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound
racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth
in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession
in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time
to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil
suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to
adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission
shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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