Arkansas Code
Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 7 - Regulation of Mines

Subchapter 2 - State Mine Inspector

§ 11-7-201. Act cumulative - This act shall not repeal any of the mining laws...

§ 11-7-202. Penalties - (a) (1) Any person who shall willfully obstruct or hinder...

§ 11-7-203. Prosecution of violations - It shall be and is made the duty of the...

§ 11-7-204. Appointment, term, and qualifications - (a) The Governor shall appoint a State Mine Inspector, who...

§ 11-7-205. Office, staff, and compensation - (a) The State Mine Inspector shall have an office, which...

§ 11-7-206. State Mine Inspector — Powers and duties - (a) In addition to the duties imposed upon him or...

§ 11-7-207. Assistant State Mine Inspector - (a) There is created the office of Assistant State Mine...

§ 11-7-208. Inspection of mines - (a) The State Mine Inspector shall devote his or her...

§ 11-7-209. Owner, agent, or operator to facilitate inspections — Failure to comply - (a) The owner, agent, or operator of a mine is...

§ 11-7-210. Action to enjoin unsafe working conditions - (a) (1) If the inspector shall, after examination of any...

§ 11-7-211. Authority to arrest violators or clear mine — Injunctive relief for owner - (a) The State Mine Inspector is empowered concurrently with the...

Subchapter 3 - Regulation of Operation

§ 11-7-301. Penalty for endangering mine or miners - (a) Any miner, workman, or other person who shall knowingly...

§ 11-7-302. Right of action for death or injury - (a) For any injury to persons or property occasioned by...

§ 11-7-303. Map or plan of mine - (a) (1) The owner, agent, or operator of each and...

§ 11-7-304. Mine openings and escapeways - (a) (1) Every underground mine shall have at least two...

§ 11-7-305. Ventilation generally - (a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine, whether...

§ 11-7-306. Regulation of air currents - (a) Air regulation of all slopes, drifts, or shafts used...

§ 11-7-307. Manner of working room and pillar plan mine - (a) The owner, agent, lessee, or operator of any coal...

§ 11-7-308. Bore holes - The owner, agent, or operator shall provide that a bore...

§ 11-7-309. Means of signaling — Cages - (a) The owner, agent, or operator of every mine operated...

§ 11-7-310. Gates, bonnets, and other safety measures - (a) The owner, agent, or operator shall cause every landing...

§ 11-7-311. Prop timbers - The owner, agent, or operator of any mine shall keep...

§ 11-7-312. Medical and emergency supplies - (a) There shall be kept in the engine room or...

§ 11-7-313. Washroom and lockers - (a) It shall be the duty of every owner or...

§ 11-7-314. Use of water on cutter bars and jackhammers required - (a) In order to promote safety in coal mines by...

§ 11-7-315. Daily inspection by fire boss - (a) In all mines where a fire boss is employed,...

§ 11-7-316. High water danger - (a) Whenever and wherever a coal mine in this state...

§ 11-7-317. Reports of accidents - (a) Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall...

§ 11-7-318. Age of miners - No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall...

§ 11-7-319. Bond for semimonthly payment of wages - (a) (1) Every person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in...

Subchapter 4 - Employee Certification

§ 11-7-402. Director of the Division of Labor — Power to administer oaths - (a) To more effectively carry out the intentions and purposes...

§ 11-7-403. Fire bosses, mine foremen, etc. — Examination — Qualifications - (a) No fire bosses, hoisting engineers, or mine foremen shall...

§ 11-7-404. Fire bosses, mine foremen, etc. — Certificate — Grades - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Labor shall...

§ 11-7-405. Fire bosses, mine foremen, etc. — Duplicate certificate - In case of loss or destruction of a certificate, the...

§ 11-7-406. Fire bosses, mine foremen, etc. — Revocation of certificate - (a) All certificates issued pursuant to this subchapter may be...

§ 11-7-407. Fire bosses, mine foremen, etc. — Misrepresentation of certificate - Any person who shall forge, alter, or counterfeit a certificate,...

§ 11-7-408. Penalty for violation of § 11-7-401 and §§ 11-7-403 — 11-7-407 - (a) Any owner, operator, lessee, or agent of any coal...

§ 11-7-409. Coal miners — Definition - (a) The term “coal miner” as used in §§ 11-7-402...

§ 11-7-410. Coal miners — Certificate required - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to work...

§ 11-7-411. Coal miners — Examination — Qualifications — Certificates - (a) The Director of the Division of Labor shall hold...

§ 11-7-412. Coal miners — Temporary permit — Grandfather clause - (a) A person making application for a coal miner's certificate...

§ 11-7-413. Coal miners — Apprentices - (a) Any certified miner may have one (1) person working...

§ 11-7-414. Coal miners — Duplicate certificate — Revocation of certificate - The Director of the Division of Labor shall possess powers...