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§ 53-9-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the "Mississippi Surface Coal...
§ 53-9-3. Legislative findings and declarations - The Legislature finds and declares that: The State of Mississippi,...
§ 53-9-5. Purpose - It is the purpose of this chapter: To assume for...
§ 53-9-7. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...
§ 53-9-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter - The department is designated as the agency to administer this...
§ 53-9-23. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit-reissuance - Before granting the reissuance of any permit, the permit board...
§ 53-9-26. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; application cost assistance to small operators - If the Permit Board finds that the probable total annual...
§ 53-9-27. Filing of permit application with chancery court clerk; public inspection; exclusion of confidential information - Each applicant for a permit shall file, within ten (10)...
§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents - The reclamation plan shall include in the degree of detail...
§ 53-9-32. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; preparation of plain language summary of proposed operation and reclamation - Upon receipt of a complete application for a surface coal...
§ 53-9-33. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; requisites for approval of application for permit; schedule of notices of violation; permit to mine on prime farmland; restriction on transfer of rights; modification of permit provisions - Any determination made by the permit board under paragraph (e)...
§ 53-9-39. Disposition of application for permit; manner of notifying interested parties; hearing before review board and notification of decision; temporary relief; right to judicial appeal - The notification required under paragraph (b) of this subsection shall...
§ 53-9-45. Promulgation of regulations and performance standards relating to surface mining; variances - For the purposes of this subsection, the term "steep slope"...
§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices - To encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to...
§ 53-9-51. Records, reports and equipment to be maintained by permittees; evaluation of results; specification of monitoring sites; entry and inspection by department; release of materials to public - The monitoring, data collection and analysis required by this section...
§ 53-9-53. Sign at entrance of surface coal mining and reclamation operation - Each permittee shall conspicuously maintain at the entrance to the...
§ 53-9-57. Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order - Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or...
§ 53-9-61. Criminal penalties; resisting, preventing, impeding, or interfering with performance of duties - Any person who, except as permitted by law, willfully resists,...
§ 53-9-63. Nonexclusivity of penalty provisions - Nothing in Sections 53-9-55 through 53-9-57 shall be construed to...
§ 53-9-73. Cooperation with Secretary of Interior - The commission may enter into a cooperative agreement with the...
§ 53-9-75. Application of chapter to public corporations - Any agency, unit or instrumentality of federal, state or local...
§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter - This chapter shall not apply to any of the following...
§ 53-9-83. Lease of state coal deposits - In computing the three-year period, the commission may include periods...
§ 53-9-87. Training, examination, and certification of persons responsible for blasting - The commission shall promulgate regulations requiring the training, examination and...