Kentucky Statutes 352.170 – Approved electric lamps and multigas detectors required — Unauthorized devices for making lights and fires forbidden
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(1) All underground mines shall be worked exclusively by the use of approved electric lamps for personal lighting.
(2) A mine operator shall provide an MSHA-approved, handheld, multigas detector that can measure methane, oxygen, and carbon monoxide to each group of two (2) or more miners working in close proximity of each other underground, the foreman, fireboss, and to each person who works alone, such as pumpers, examiners, and outby miners. The mine operator shall make available one (1) multigas detector at the working face for use by any miner working on the section. Miners shall be trained in the proper use and calibration of the multigas detectors and shall document that the training has been provided. Signs shall be prominently posted at places miners gather with instructions on the proper use of multi-gas detectors.
(3) No person shall at any time carry into any mine any intoxicants. No person shall at any time enter any underground mine with matches, lighters, pipes, cigars, cigarettes, or any device for making lights or fire not authorized or approved, including but not limited to electronic cigarettes, cigars, or any component that heats liquids or other material to produce vapor. The licensee shall at frequent intervals search, or cause to be searched, any person entering or about to enter the mine or inside the mine, to prevent the person from taking, carrying, or using the articles therein.
Effective: July 14, 2018
History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 14, effective July 14, 2018. — Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 18, effective January 1, 2008. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 355, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 32, effective April 9, 1996. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 16. — Amended
1952 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 24, effective March 25, 1952. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-26.
Legislative Research Commission Note (4/9/96). The action taken with respect to this statute by 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308 was to have become effective April 8, 1996, under Section 51 of that Act. The Act, however, did not become effective until April 9,
1996, when the Governor’s signed copy of the Act was filed with the Secretary of
State.
(2) A mine operator shall provide an MSHA-approved, handheld, multigas detector that can measure methane, oxygen, and carbon monoxide to each group of two (2) or more miners working in close proximity of each other underground, the foreman, fireboss, and to each person who works alone, such as pumpers, examiners, and outby miners. The mine operator shall make available one (1) multigas detector at the working face for use by any miner working on the section. Miners shall be trained in the proper use and calibration of the multigas detectors and shall document that the training has been provided. Signs shall be prominently posted at places miners gather with instructions on the proper use of multi-gas detectors.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 352.170
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Approved: means that a device, apparatus, equipment, machinery, or practice employed in the mining of coal has been approved by the commissioner of the Department for Natural Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 352.010
- 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 352.010
- 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 352.010
- Operator: means the licensee, owner, lessee, or other person who operates or controls a coal mine. See Kentucky Statutes 352.010
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Working face: means any place in a coal mine at which the extraction of coal from its natural deposit in the earth is performed during the mining cycle. See Kentucky Statutes 352.010
(3) No person shall at any time carry into any mine any intoxicants. No person shall at any time enter any underground mine with matches, lighters, pipes, cigars, cigarettes, or any device for making lights or fire not authorized or approved, including but not limited to electronic cigarettes, cigars, or any component that heats liquids or other material to produce vapor. The licensee shall at frequent intervals search, or cause to be searched, any person entering or about to enter the mine or inside the mine, to prevent the person from taking, carrying, or using the articles therein.
Effective: July 14, 2018
History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 14, effective July 14, 2018. — Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 18, effective January 1, 2008. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 355, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 32, effective April 9, 1996. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 16. — Amended
1952 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 24, effective March 25, 1952. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-26.
Legislative Research Commission Note (4/9/96). The action taken with respect to this statute by 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308 was to have become effective April 8, 1996, under Section 51 of that Act. The Act, however, did not become effective until April 9,
1996, when the Governor’s signed copy of the Act was filed with the Secretary of
State.