Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1563 - Mine Construction, Maintenance, Abandonment

• Section 1563.01 - Chapter Does Not Apply To Chapter 1514 Activities.
  Except for section 1563.11 of the Revised Code, nothing in this chapter applies to activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of...
• Section 1563.02 - Gaseous Mine Defined.
  As used in this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. of the Revised Code, a gaseous mine is: (A) A mine in which...
• Section 1563.03 - Map Of New Mine.
  The operator of each underground mine shall, in opening a new mine, cause a map of such mine to be made at such time...
• Section 1563.04 - Survey - Copies Of Map And Survey - Certification.
  The operator of each underground mine shall have a survey made whenever the workings of the mine have extended four hundred feet in any...
• Section 1563.05 - Failure To Make And File Map Or Addition.
  Upon the refusal or neglect of the owner, lessee, or agent of the mine to make and file a map or any addition thereto,...
• Section 1563.06 - Right Of Entry.
  For the purpose of making the examinations provided for in this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. and applicable provisions of Chapter 1509....
• Section 1563.07 - Examination Or Survey Of Mine By Adjoining Landowner - Notice.
  Each person owning land adjoining a mine worked for the production of coal, and each person interested in such mine, who has reason to...
• Section 1563.08 - Surveying Party - Fees.
  When the affidavit has been made, and notice given, as provided in section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, upon the application of the person...
• Section 1563.09 - Examination Or Survey - Liability For Damage.
  The person owning or operating a mine shall not hinder or obstruct an examination or survey under section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, if...
• Section 1563.10 - Refusal To Permit Survey - Judgment.
  If the owner, lessee, or agent of a mine refuses to comply with sections 1563.08 and 1563.09 of the Revised Code, the person who...
• Section 1563.11 - Mining Near Public Roads.
  (A) Unless a permit has been issued by the director of transportation, or the board of county commissioners, or the board of township trustees,...
• Section 1563.111 - Mining Near Oil Or Gas Well.
  No owner, lessee, or agent shall conduct mining operations within twenty-five feet of any known well, or locate a mine opening within three hundred...
• Section 1563.12 - Construction Regulations To Be Observed In Opening Mine.
  Any person, firm, or corporation, beginning the opening of a mine, whether or not such person, firm, or corporation is the owner, lessee, or...
• Section 1563.13 - Maintenance Of Means Of Egress From Mine.
  When a deputy mine inspector considers that the ways and means of egress in any underground mine from the interior working places to the...
• Section 1563.14 - Two Openings Required - Exceptions.
  Except as provided in this section, the operator of an underground coal mine shall not employ, or permit any person to work therein, unless...
• Section 1563.15 - Additional Opening For Protection Against Inundation.
  At any mine where there is a stream or body of water on the surface, or in the workings of the mine, at a...
• Section 1563.16 - Doors.
  In the development of mines, doors shall be eliminated wherever practicable. All main or principal air currents shall be controlled by double doors to...
• Section 1563.17 - Break-throughs And Brattices.
  From a point where the seam is reached in the opening of an underground mine, to a point not exceeding a distance of four...
• Section 1563.18 - Separate Traveling Ways.
  The operator of a mine shall provide and maintain, in safe condition for the purpose provided, two separate and distinct traveling ways from the...
• Section 1563.19 - Slopes And Mechanical Haulageways - Refuge Holes.
  The operator of a mine worked by shaft shall provide, and keep free from obstruction, a traveling way or passageway from one side of...
• Section 1563.20 - Track In Mines - Minimum Clearance.
  For the protection of transportation workers, track shall be laid to provide a minimum clearance of fourteen inches on the side of the entry...
• Section 1563.21 - Location Of Boilers.
  The permanent boilers used for generating steam, and the buildings containing the boilers, shall not be nearer than sixty feet to any mine opening,...
• Section 1563.23 - Bathing Facilities, Clothing Change Rooms, And Sanitary Toilet Facilities To Be Provided.
  Each operator of an underground coal mine shall provide bathing facilities, clothing change rooms, and sanitary toilet facilities in a location at each mine...
• Section 1563.24 - Mine Foreperson Of Gaseous Mine - Powers And Duties.
  In all mines generating methane in such quantities as to be considered a gaseous mine under section 1563.02 of the Revised Code, the mine...
• Section 1563.25 - Accumulation Of Combustible Materials Prohibited.
  Coal dust, loose coal, and other combustible materials shall not be permitted to accumulate in any active workings. Where mining operations raise an excessive...
• Section 1563.26 - Rock Dusting - Testing Of Dust Samples.
  All mines, except those mines or locations in a mine that are too wet or too high in incombustible content to propagate an explosion,...
• Section 1563.27 - Examination Of Working Place By Mine Foreman.
  The mine foreman shall examine or have examined the working place of each person working in the mine on each coal-producing shift that such...
• Section 1563.28 - Examination Of Working Place By Fire Boss.
  The worker performing the duties of fire boss shall, in an approved manner, use a flame safety lamp when making examinations under this chapter...
• Section 1563.29 - Examination Of Working Place By Miner.
  Each miner shall examine his working place upon entering it, and shall not commence to mine or load until it is made safe. He...
• Section 1563.30 - Unsafe Working Place.
  When a working place becomes unsafe, the mine foreman shall order the persons working therein to cease mining or loading, and not remain in...
• Section 1563.31 - Work To Cease When Working Place Found Dangerous.
  If a miner finds his place becoming dangerous, he shall at once cease work and notify the mine foreman, or other person acting for...
• Section 1563.32 - Fencing Of Dangerous Places - Danger Signs.
  The mine foreman shall see that all dangerous places and old workings are properly fenced off, and proper danger signal boards are hung on...
• Section 1563.33 - Roof Control System And Plan.
  Each operator shall carry out on a continuing basis a program to improve the roof control system of each coal mine and the means...
• Section 1563.34 - Operator Program For Improving Roof Control Systems.
  Each operator shall adopt an adequate program for improving roof control systems. This program shall include a roof control plan, provision for the training...
• Section 1563.35 - Criteria Or Specifications Applied To Plans.
  The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall approve roof control plans on a mine-by-mine basis in accordance with the criteria or...
• Section 1563.36 - Excessive Widths Of Rooms And Entries Or Faulty Pillar Recovery Methods.
  The method of mining followed in any coal mine shall not expose the miner to unusual dangers from roof falls caused by excessive widths...
• Section 1563.37 - Operator To Supply Roof Support Materials - Roof Bolts - Testing Of Danger Areas.
  (A) The operator, in accordance with the approved plan, shall provide at or near each working face and at such other locations in the...
• Section 1563.39 - Precautions When Working Place Approaches Completed Or Abandoned Workings.
  When any working place approaches within fifty feet of accurately surveyed completed workings in the same mine, or within two hundred feet of any...
• Section 1563.40 - Closing Of Openings To Abandoned Mines - Closing Abandoned Vertical Shafts.
  The operator shall effectively close or fence all openings to mines abandoned after June 3, 1941, so that persons or animals cannot inadvertently enter...
• Section 1563.41 - Sealing Off Abandoned Workings.
  The operator of a mine, before sealing off any abandoned workings, shall obtain the approval of the deputy mine inspector and the chief of...
• Section 1563.42 - Filing Of Map Of Abandoned Mine.
  The operator of a mine, before the pillars are drawn previous to the abandonment of any part of the mine, shall have a correct...
• Section 1563.43 - When Notice To Chief Required.
  The operator of a mine shall give notice to the chief of the division of mineral resources management when: (A) A change occurs in...
• Section 1563.45 - Abandoned Mines Recorded.
  The county recorder, when presented with a map of an abandoned mine by the owner, lessee, or agent thereof, as provided for in section...
• Section 1563.46 - Injunction.
  If the appliances of a mine for the safety of the persons working therein do not conform to this chapter and Chapters 1509., 1561.,...
• Section 1563.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever knowingly violates any section of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Effective Date: 10-29-1995

Last modified: October 10, 2016