§ 351.010 Definitions for chapter — Applicability
§ 351.020 Commissioner of Department for Natural Resources — Functions
§ 351.025 Duties of department relating to mine safety — Administrative regulations
§ 351.030 Hearings before department — Petition for intervention
§ 351.040 Action to vacate order of department — Appeal
§ 351.060 Qualifications of director of Division of Mine Safety
§ 351.070 Duties of the commissioner — Division of Mine Safety — Secretary may promulgate administrative regulations — Family liaison — Civil monetary penalties
§ 351.075 Exceptions to mandatory mine safety standards
§ 351.080 Offices of mine inspectors
§ 351.090 Mine safety specialists — Appointment — Qualifications — Oath and bond — Background check
§ 351.101 Declaration of legislative finding of fact
§ 351.102 Certificate of competency and qualification or permit as trainee required — Proof of drug- and alcohol-free status to be submitted — Examinations — Hearing — Appeals
§ 351.103 Eligibility of mining specialists to work as miners
§ 351.1041 Mine Safety Review Commission
§ 351.1045 Required new miner training course and site visits for members of the Mine Safety Review Commission
§ 351.106 Education and training program — Alcohol and substance abuse training and education — Retraining and reeducation requirements — Administrative regulations — Implementation of program for training and examination — Records
§ 351.107 Requirements for certification as shotfirer
§ 351.1071 Training program — Certification as shotfirer and driller for solid blasting
§ 351.108 Superintendent to hold a mine foreman certificate
§ 351.109 Requirements for qualification and certification to perform electrical work — Written tests
§ 351.110 Examination prerequisites — Fees — Moneys from licenses and examination fees for use of department
§ 351.120 Issuance of certificates — Form and content — Classification — Duty of applicant — Drug- or alcohol-test-related suspension or revocation of certification or license — Notification of options — Reissuance after evaluation, treatment, and testi
§ 351.122 Reciprocity for miners certified in other states — Requirements — Reciprocal disciplinary action
§ 351.125 First-aid training
§ 351.127 Employment of certified emergency medical technicians or mine emergency technicians required at underground coal mine
§ 351.1291 Course of instruction for surface coal miners
§ 351.130 Duplicate certificates
§ 351.140 Duties and authority of mine inspectors — Frequency of underground and surface mine inspections
§ 351.150 Reports of mine inspectors
§ 351.160 Annual report of commissioner — Record and index of inspections and reports — Certified copies
§ 351.170 Reports of licensee — Alcohol and substance abuse reports
§ 351.173 Notice of possibility of subsidence — Language required in deed of conveyance
§ 351.175 Provisions concerning license to operate mine — Submissions required for license — Revocation of license
§ 351.182 Drug-and alcohol-free status required for miner certification — Proof — Costs of testing — Breath alcohol device at examination site — Ten-panel urine test
§ 351.183 Contracts for specimen collection and laboratory testing services — Standards, procedures, and protocol — Criteria for proof from other sources — Annual publication of certified collection and testing providers
§ 351.184 Division to notify applicant of test results when granting or denying certification — Notification of options — Issuance after evaluation, treatment, and testing — Right of appeal
§ 351.185 Confidentiality of drug and alcohol test results — Exceptions — Use of results in criminal proceeding against applicant prohibited
§ 351.186 Workers’ compensation premium — Credit for certified drug-free workplace program at coal mine
§ 351.190 Mine rescue divisions and stations — Supplies and equipment
§ 351.191 Trained mine rescue team to be available within specified driving time of each mine
§ 351.192 Qualified or operator-designated person performing mine rescue acts not liable for damages for such acts
§ 351.193 Safety rights of miners — Settlement of disputes
§ 351.194 Administrative hearing procedures — Hearing regarding licensee, coal operation, or other person — Order — Enforcement — Civil penalty or fine
§ 351.241 Statement of General Assembly
§ 351.242 Mine safety analysis program — Responsibility and powers of mine safety specialists
§ 351.243 Responsibilities and duties of mine safety analysts not to limit those provided in KRS Chapters 351 and 352 for other persons
§ 351.310 Definitions for KRS 351.315 to 351.375
§ 351.315 Licensing of blaster — Training requirements
§ 351.325 Classification of blasters
§ 351.330 Requirements governing blasting operations
§ 351.335 Rules and regulations — Authority of commissioner or his representative
§ 351.345 Revocation of license — Hearing
§ 351.350 Citation for violation — Action against violator
§ 351.355 Notification of accident — Investigation
§ 351.360 Records required
§ 351.365 Supplier of explosives to keep register and to register with department
§ 351.367 Permit to purchase, receive, or take possession of explosives — Procedures — Restrictions — Records
§ 351.370 Purchase of explosives
§ 351.375 Restriction of sale and use of hazardous explosives
§ 351.990 Penalties
§ 351.9901 Moratorium ending April 8, 1996, on levying of mandatory fines and penalties pursuant to KRS 351.990 — Exceptions
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 351 - Department for Natural Resources

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Adulterated specimen: means a specimen containing a substance that is not a normal constituent or containing an endogenous substance at a concentration that is not a normal physiological concentration. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assistant mine foreman: means a certified person designated to assist the mine foreman in the supervision of a portion or the whole of a mine or of the persons employed therein. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
    (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Commission: means the Mine Safety Review Commission created by KRS
    351. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the Department for Natural Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Director: means the director of the Division of Mine Safety. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Division: means the Division of Mine Safety. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Final order of the commission: means an order which has not been appealed to the Franklin Circuit Court within thirty (30) days of entry, or an order affirming the commission's order that has been entered by any court within the Commonwealth and for which all appeals have been exhausted. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Illicit substances: includes prescription drugs used illegally or in excess of therapeutic levels as well as illegal drugs. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Licensee: means any owner, operator, lessee, corporation, partnership, or other person who procures a license from the department to operate a coal mine. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Mine: means any open pit or any underground workings from which coal is produced for sale, exchange, or commercial use, and all shafts, slopes, drifts, or inclines leading thereto, and includes all buildings and equipment, above or below the surface of the ground, used in connection with the workings. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Mine foreman: means a certified person whom the licensee or superintendent places in charge of the workings of the mine and of the persons employed therein. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Operator: means the licensee, owner, lessee, or other person who operates or controls a coal mine. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Permissible: refers to any equipment, device, or explosive that has been approved by the United States Bureau of Mines, the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, or the Mine Safety and Health Administration and that meets all requirements, restrictions, exceptions, limitations, and conditions attached to the classification by the approving agency. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Serious physical injury: means an injury which has a reasonable potential to cause death. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Shaft: means a vertical opening through the strata that is used in connection with the mining of coal, for the purpose of ventilation or drainage, or for hoisting men, coal, or materials. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Superintendent: means the person who, on behalf of the licensee, has immediate supervision of one (1) or more mines. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Supervisory personnel: means a person certified under the provisions of this chapter to assist in the supervision of a portion or the whole of the mine or of the persons employed therein. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010