Effective: October 29, 1995
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly
When any working place approaches within fifty feet of accurately surveyed completed workings in the same mine, or within two hundred feet of any other abandoned workings, that cannot be inspected and which may contain dangerous accumulations of water or gas, boreholes shall be drilled at least twenty feet in advance of the face, and forty-five degree angle rib holes shall be drilled at least twenty feet deep and not more than eight feet apart in one or both ribs as may be necessary for adequate protection. Completed workings are accurately surveyed when a competent engineer or surveyor has certified as to the surveying and recording thereof.
No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 15 | Conservation of Natural Resources
Chapter 1563 | Mine Construction, Maintenance, Abandonment
Section 1563.01 | Chapter Does Not Apply to Chapter 1514 Activities.
Section 1563.02 | Gaseous Mine Defined.
Section 1563.03 | Map of New Mine.
Section 1563.04 | Survey - Copies of Map and Survey - Certification.
Section 1563.05 | Failure to Make and File Map or Addition.
Section 1563.06 | Right of Entry.
Section 1563.07 | Examination or Survey of Mine by Adjoining Landowner - Notice.
Section 1563.08 | Surveying Party - Fees.
Section 1563.09 | Examination or Survey - Liability for Damage.
Section 1563.10 | Refusal to Permit Survey - Judgment.
Section 1563.11 | Mining Near Public Roads.
Section 1563.111 | Mining Near Oil or Gas Well.
Section 1563.12 | Construction Regulations to Be Observed in Opening Mine.
Section 1563.13 | Maintenance of Means of Egress From Mine.
Section 1563.14 | Two Openings Required - Exceptions.
Section 1563.15 | Additional Opening for Protection Against Inundation.
Section 1563.17 | Break-Throughs and Brattices.
Section 1563.18 | Separate Traveling Ways.
Section 1563.19 | Slopes and Mechanical Haulageways - Refuge Holes.
Section 1563.20 | Track in Mines - Minimum Clearance.
Section 1563.21 | Location of Boilers.
Section 1563.24 | Mine Foreperson of Gaseous Mine - Powers and Duties.
Section 1563.25 | Accumulation of Combustible Materials Prohibited.
Section 1563.26 | Rock Dusting - Testing of Dust Samples.
Section 1563.27 | Examination of Working Place by Mine Foreman.
Section 1563.28 | Examination of Working Place by Fire Boss.
Section 1563.29 | Examination of Working Place by Miner.
Section 1563.30 | Unsafe Working Place.
Section 1563.31 | Work to Cease When Working Place Found Dangerous.
Section 1563.32 | Fencing of Dangerous Places - Danger Signs.
Section 1563.33 | Roof Control System and Plan.
Section 1563.34 | Operator Program for Improving Roof Control Systems.
Section 1563.35 | Criteria or Specifications Applied to Plans.
Section 1563.36 | Excessive Widths of Rooms and Entries or Faulty Pillar Recovery Methods.
Section 1563.37 | Operator to Supply Roof Support Materials - Roof Bolts - Testing of Danger Areas.
Section 1563.39 | Precautions When Working Place Approaches Completed or Abandoned Workings.
Section 1563.40 | Closing of Openings to Abandoned Mines - Closing Abandoned Vertical Shafts.
Section 1563.41 | Sealing Off Abandoned Workings.
Section 1563.42 | Filing of Map of Abandoned Mine.
Section 1563.43 | When Notice to Chief Required.