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§45-1. Oklahoma Mining Commission - Status - Appointment - Term - Membership - Meetings - Removal - Vacancies - Officers. - A. 1. There is hereby created the Oklahoma Mining Commission....
§45-1.2. Violation of Board order - Notice - Hearing - Misdemeanor - Injunction - Action. - A. Whenever the Board determines there are reasonable grounds to...
§45-1.3. Hearings - Hearing officer - Judicial review. - A. All hearings required by the Board may be conducted...
§45-1.4. Inspection of mines - Mining records. - The Chief Mine Inspector or his duly authorized representative shall...
§45-1.5. Rules and regulations. - The Board shall adopt within one hundred and eighty (180)...
§45-1a. Powers and duties of Commission. - A. The Oklahoma Mining Commission shall be the policy-determining agency...
§45-1b. Chief Mine Inspector - Director. - The chief executive officer of the Department of Mines shall...
§45-1c. Powers and duties of Director. - Subject to the policies, rules and regulations of the Oklahoma...
§45-1d. Additional powers and duties of Director. - A. The Director of the Department of Mines with the...
§45-1e. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute - Establishment - Faculty and services - Director - Advisor. - A. There is hereby established the Oklahoma Miner Training Institute....
§45-1f. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute - Duties. - The Oklahoma Miner Training Institute shall: 1. Conduct miner safety...
§45-1g. Department of Environmental Quality - Regulation of certain mining activities. - Any point source discharge, the disposal of any hazardous waste,...
§45-2. Certificates of competency - Violations - Examinations - Qualification. - A. No person shall act as a mine superintendent, mine...
§45-3. Chief Mine Inspector - Assistant Mine Inpectors. - The Chief Mine Inspector shall be a citizen of the...
§45-3.1. Director of Department of Mines. - In the absence of an appointed Chief Mine Inspector, the...
§45-5. Certificates - Contents - Fees. - Certifications required by this title shall be issued under the...
§45-6. Secretary - Record of issue of certificates - Effect of certificates - Notice and list of names. - The Secretary of the Oklahoma Mining Commission shall make a...
§45-8. Temporary permits. - The Secretary of the Board may, upon the recommendation of...
§45-9.1. Quarrying or mining with use of explosives near schools or churches prohibited - Exceptions. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation,...
§45-21.1. Mining districts. - It shall be the duty of the Chief Mine Inspector...
§45-31. Chief Mine Inspector - Annual report to Governor. - On or before the first day of August of each...
§45-32. Examinations of mines. - The Chief Mine Inspector shall, from time to time, make...
§45-33. Journal of inspections - Official communications - Equipment and material. - The Chief Mine Inspector shall keep in his office a...
§45-34. Office - Property of state. - The Chief Mine Inspector shall have an office at the...
§45-37. Withdrawal of person's from dangerous mine - Violations - Penalties. - The Chief Mine Inspector or assistant mine inspector is authorized...
§45-40. Obstruction of inspectors - Penalty. - Every person who willfully obstructs the Chief Mine Inspector or...
§45-41. Disputes between operators and miners. - In case of dispute between operators and miners on the...
§45-43. Legal assistance. - The Chief Mine Inspector is hereby authorized to employ two...
§45-44. Special counsel in certain proceedings involving Attorney General. - If the Attorney General shall seek redress on behalf of...
§45-45. Study of mining laws - Recommendations and proposed legislation. - In addition to its other powers, the Oklahoma Mining Commission...
§45-46. Market study and sulfur emissions standards study - Recommendations. - The Oklahoma Mining Commission is authorized and directed, within the...
§45-46.1. Acid mine drainage. - The Department of Environmental Quality, in cooperation with the Department...
§45-47. Funding of activities. - Funding for the Oklahoma Mining Commission's activities shall be derived...
§45-48. Borrow pits - Jurisdiction. - The Oklahoma Department of Mines shall have jurisdiction over only...
§45-361. Terms defined. - When used in this title the following terms, unless otherwise...
§45-411. Definitions. - The words defined in this section shall have the following...
§45-412. Mine inspectors - Duties. - The Mine Inspector of said mines in addition to other...
§45-413. Mine inspector to require compliance with act. - It shall be the duty of the Mine Inspector of...
§45-414. Examination and inspection of mines - Time and manner. - It shall be the duty of the Mine Inspector from...
§45-415. Dangerous conditions - Additional shafts. - The Mine Inspector is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to...
§45-416. Health of employees - Underground excavations - Ventilation. - The Mine Inspector is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to...
§45-417. Dust - Water lines - Sprinkling attachments. - The Mine Inspector is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to...
§45-418. Loss of life or injury - Duty of operator and inspector. - Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall occur...
§45-419. Shaft hoisting engineers - Age and experience - Duties - Loading and unloading. - All shaft hoisting engineers handling men or material must be...
§45-421. Shaft collars - Cribbing and timbering - Pipes and air lines. - All shaft collars shall extend at least eight (8) inches...
§45-423. Hoisting equipment. - The hoisting equipment shall be of such kind and in...
§45-424. Explosives - Storage, transportation, handling and use. - At all said mines in this state, all explosives shall...
§45-430. Map or plan of mine. - The operator of said mines in this state shall make...
§45-434. Orders of Mining Inspector - Review. - Any order made by the Mining Inspector under the provisions...
§45-435. Neglect or failure to perform requirements - Penalty. - The neglect, failure or refusal to perform or comply with...
§45-436. Open mine shafts - Covering - Approval - Penalties. - Any person, firm or corporation, who knowingly maintains, uses or...
§45-437. Interference with protective covering devices - Penalties. - Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of destroying, removing,...
§45-441. Use of engines equipped for detoxification permitted - Approval of use - Inspections - Suspension or discontinuance of use. - The use of diesel engines equipped for detoxification in accordance...
§45-442. Use of engines not meeting standards prohibited. - It shall be unlawful to use or to order or...
§45-477. May stop mining, when. - Such inspector, and each of his assistants, shall also have...
§45-478. Penalty for obstruction. - Every person who willfully obstructs the Chief Inspector or his...
§45-501. Maps of mines. - The owner, agent, lessee or operator of every coal or...
§45-502. Maps to be corrected every six months. - At least every six (6) months, or oftener if necessary,...
§45-503. Mine inspectors to be furnished copies of maps. - The operator or superintendent of every mine shall furnish the...
§45-504. Penalty for failure to furnish map copies. - If any superintendent or operator of mines shall neglect or...
§45-505. Conduct of developments. - In the preparation of maps of the territory being, or...
§45-506. Ventilation - Construction of air and hoisting shafts. - It shall be unlawful for the operator or superintendent, mine...
§45-507. Openings to be separated by natural strata. - In all shaft mines the openings to the surface hereinbefore...
§45-508. Shaft not more than seventy-five feet deep. - When the opening or outlet other than the main opening...
§45-509. Hoisting machinery in shaft over seventy-five feet deep. - When any mine is operated by a shaft which exceeds...
§45-510. Angle of traveled slope. - At any mine where one of the two openings as...
§45-511. Inspection of hoisting equipment and stairs. - The ropes, chains, machinery and all of its connections used...
§45-512. Safety equipment for shafts. - The operator or superintendent shall provide and maintain from the...
§45-513. Quality and testing of chains. - The main coupling chain, attached to the socket of the...
§45-514. Number of persons lowered or hoisted at one time. - No greater number of persons shall be lowered or hoisted...
§45-515. Inspection - Guard railings. - The ropes, chains, machinery and all of its connections used...
§45-516. Ventilation. - The operator of every coal or other mine, whether shaft,...
§45-517. Number working in same air current - Fans and furnaces - Stoppings between intake and return airways. - Not more than forty-five persons shall be permitted to work...
§45-518. Ventilating fans and doors. - All ventilating fans shall be kept in operation night and...
§45-519. Mines to be kept free from gas. - All mines generating fire damp shall be kept free of...
§45-520. Inspection for gas. - In all mines wherein explosive gas is generated, and also...
§45-521. Danger signals. - The fire boss shall at each entrance to the mine,...
§45-522. Electric wires to be insulated. - In all mines where electricity is, used as a part...
§45-523. Machines to be shielded - Electric pumps. - In mines where mining machines are used, each machine shall...
§45-524. Use of oil and grease. - The oiling or greasing of cars inside of the mines...
§45-525. Precautions in dangerous workings. - In any place that is being driven towards, or in...
§45-527. Precautions against dust or explosive matter. - In case any entry, or room in any coal mine...
§45-528.1. Water on cutter bars and rock drills - Use required. - In order to promote the safety in coal mines by...
§45-528.2. Violations by mine owners, operators, etc. - Any person or persons, partnership, association, corporation, owner, operator and/or...
§45-528.3. Violations by miners and persons operating drills or machines. - It is hereby also unlawful for any person, miner, operator...
§45-529. Workers' compensation coverage - Penalties - Exceptions. - (A) Any person or persons, partnership, association, corporation, owner, operator...
§45-580. Punishment for offense. - A violation of Section 16 hereof, or of any part...
§45-603. Cheating by molesting check numbers on cars. - It shall be unlawful for any person to change, exchange,...
§45-604. Punishment for offense. - Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of...
§45-612. Rules to be posted. - All operators of coal or other mines shall keep posted...
§45-614. Definition of special terms. - The term "mine committee" as used in this chapter, shall...
§45-615. Violations of statute as misdemeanors - Civil liability. - The neglect, failure or refusal to perform any of the...
§45-616. Construction of sewage or drainage facilities into operating or abandoned mine - Penalty. - If any person shall construct or cause to be constructed...
§45-721. Short title. - This act may be known and cited as "The Mining...
§45-722. Declaration of policy. - It is hereby declared to be the policy of this...
§45-723. Definitions. - Whenever used or referred to in Sections 722 through 738...
§45-724. Permits - Limited Use Permits - Applications - Bond - Permit or bond release applications. - A. It shall be unlawful for any operator to engage...
§45-725. Procedure for reclaiming land. - A. All affected land other than lands affected by coal...
§45-726. Refuse disposal areas. - All refuse disposal areas shall be reclaimed or treated or...
§45-727. Inspection. - The Department, or its accredited representatives, may enter upon the...
§45-728. Bond - Cash deposit. - A. Any bond required to be filed with the Department...
§45-729. Violations - Notice - Hearing - Enforcement - Informing of surface owners. - The Department of Mines shall notify the operator and the...
§45-730. Lateral support. - In the case of strip mining operations which remove and...
§45-731. Maps - Release. - The operator shall submit to the Department, no later than...
§45-732. Powers and duties of Department. - In addition to the duties and powers conferred on the...
§45-733. Legal assistance. - At the request of the Department the Attorney General shall...
§45-734. Chief Mine Inspector. - Any act authorized to be done by the Department may...
§45-735. Sand and gravel - Inspections - Penalties. - The Department is designated as the agency to make safety...
§45-736. Revoked permits. - In no event shall a permit be issued to any...
§45-737. Governmental agencies to conform. - Any municipal or county governmental agency or body engaged in...
§45-738. Judicial review. - All final decisions and orders of the Department shall be...
§45-740.1. Short title. - This act may be cited as the "Oklahoma Abandoned Mine...
§45-740.2. Legislative findings - Purpose. - A. The Legislature finds that: 1. The Congress of the...
§45-740.3. Powers and duties of Commission. - To accomplish the purposes of this act, the Oklahoma Conservation...
§45-740.4. Participation in Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. - The Commission is authorized to take all action necessary to...
§45-740.5. Property adversely affected by past coal mining practices - Entry - Acquisition - Title - Disposition. - A. If the Commission makes a finding of fact that:...
§45-740.6. Liens. - A. Within six (6) months after the completion of projects...
§45-740.7. Emergencies. - A. The Commission is authorized to spend monies from the...
§45-742.1. Short title - Intent of Legislature - Application of act - Public policy - Purpose of act. - This act shall be known and may be cited as...
§45-742.2. Definitions. - As used in this act: 1. "Acid drainage" means water...
§45-744. Application of act. - All surface coal mining operations which commence operations pursuant to...
§45-745. Exemptions. - Surface coal mining operations in operation pursuant to a permit...
§45-745.1. Permits for separate mining operations - Application - Forms - Plan of reclamation - Fees - Exemptions. - A. It shall be unlawful for any operator to engage...
§45-745.2. Term of permit - Fee - Transferability. - All permits issued pursuant to the requirements of this act...
§45-745.3. Termination of permit - Extension. - A permit shall terminate if the permittee has not commenced...
§45-745.4. Renewal of permit - Application - Burden of proof - Term. - Any valid permit issued pursuant to this act shall carry...
§45-745.5. Reclamation plan. - A. Each applicant for a permit shall be required to...
§45-745.6. Performance bond. - A. After a surface coal mining and reclamation permit application...
§45-745.7. Grant, modification or denial of application for permit - Notice to applicant - Burden of proof - Notice to political subdivisions. - Upon the basis of a complete mining application and reclamation...
§45-745.8. Criteria for approval of permit or revision application. - No permit or revision application shall be approved unless the...
§45-745.9. Schedule of notices of violations of air or water environmental protection laws to be submitted - Effect of prior violations on application. - The applicant shall file with his permit application a schedule...
§45-745.10. Revision of permit. - A. 1. During the term of the permit the permittee...
§45-745.11. Exploration regulations - Contents - Confidential or privileged information - Tonnage limitations - Violations. - A. Coal exploration operations which substantially disturb the natural land...
§45-745.12. Advertisement of ownership, location and boundaries of affected land - Notice to political subdivisions, etc. - Comments on proposed operation. - At the time of submission of an application for a...
§45-745.13. Objections to application for permit - Informal conference - Hearings. - A. Any person having an interest which is or may...
§45-745.14. Findings - Notice to applicant - Hearing on findings. - A. If an informal conference has been held, the Department...
§45-745.15. Temporary relief pending final determination of proceedings - Conduct of hearings - Appeals. - When a hearing is requested pursuant to this act, the...
§45-745.16.1. Small operator assistance program. - The Department shall operate a small operator assistance program to...
§45-745.17. Copy of application to be filed with county recorder or appropriate public office - Liability insurance - Blasting plans. - A. Each applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation...
§45-745.18. Impoundments of water on mining sites. - The operator may create, if authorized in the approved mining...
§45-745.19. Augering operations. - The operator shall conduct any augering operation associated with surface...
§45-745.20. Disposal of wastes. - The operator shall, with respect to surface disposal of mine...
§45-745.21. Surface mining near active and abandoned underground mines. - The operator shall refrain from surface coal mining within five...
§45-745.22. Reclamation efforts - Variances. - The operator shall insure that all reclamation efforts proceed in...
§45-746. Restoration of land. - The operator shall restore the land affected to a condition...
§45-747. Backfilling, compacting, and grading. - The operator shall backfill, compact where advisable to insure stability...
§45-748. Conditions where backfilling, compacting, and grading are necessary. - In surface coal mining: 1. Which is carried out at...
§45-749. Restoring excess overburden, spoils and waste materials. - In surface coal mining where the volume of overburden is...
§45-750. Removal and restoration of topsoil. - The operator shall remove the topsoil from the land in...
§45-751. Disturbances to hydrologic balance. - The operator shall minimize the disturbances to the prevailing hydrologic...
§45-752. Waste piles. - The operator shall design, locate, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, modify...
§45-753. Explosives - Rules and regulations. - A. The operator shall insure that explosives are used only...
§45-754. Reestablishment of native flora - Length of liability. - A. The operator shall establish on the regraded areas and...
§45-754.1. Spoil material - Placement. - The operator shall place all excess spoil material resulting from...
§45-754.2. Performance standards. - The operator shall also fulfill the following performance standards: 1....
§45-755. Steep slope surface mining - Performance standards - Exemptions. - The following performance standards shall be applicable to steep slope...
§45-756. Performance standards for removal of entire coal seam - Postmining land use as condition for granting permit. - A. Where a surface coal mining operation will remove an...
§45-757. Prime farmland - Soil restoration - Exemptions. - If the area proposed to be mined contains prime farmland,...
§45-760. Mine operators - Duties. - Each permit issued relating to underground coal mining shall require...
§45-760.1. Suspension of underground mining in certain areas. - In order to protect the stability of the land, the...
§45-760.2. Application of act to surface operations - Modifications. - The provisions of this act relating to permits, bonds, inspections...
§45-761. Licenses and permits - Display - Inspection. - A copy of all current permits, licenses, approved plans or...
§45-765. Data collection and analysis. - A. The Department shall require any permittee to establish and...
§45-766. Right of entry - Inspections - Signs - Violations - Public inspection of records, etc. - A. The representatives of the Department may enter upon the...
§45-767. Conflicts of interest - Violations. - No employee of the Department of Mines or any other...
§45-768. Reports of violations of act - Informal review - Inspection procedure. - A. Any person who is or may be adversely affected...
§45-769. Civil penalties. - A. In the enforcement of a state program pursuant to...
§45-770. Release of performance bond or deposit - Application. - The permittee may file a request with the Department for...
§45-771. Release of performance bond or deposit - Inspection and evaluation of reclamation work. - Upon receipt of the notification and request, the Department shall...
§45-772. Release of performance bond or deposit - Schedule of release - Disapproval of application - Protection of affected area. - A. The Department may release in whole or in part...
§45-773. Release of performance bond or deposit - Notice to municipalities - Objections - Hearings - Informal conference - Authority of department. - A. When any application for total or partial bond release...
§45-774. Civil actions to compel compliance with act - Exceptions. - A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section,...
§45-775. Inspection of violations. - Whenever the Department has reason to believe that any person...
§45-776. Conditions or practices in violation of act - Cessation order - Additional obligations on operator. - If, on the basis of any inspection, the Department determines...
§45-777. Abatement of violation - Notice - Hearing - Cessation orders. - If the Department determines that any permittee is in violation...
§45-778. Suspension or revocation of permit. - If the Department determines that a pattern of violations of...
§45-779. Notices and orders - Requirements. - Notices and orders issued pursuant to Sections 42 through 45...
§45-780. Action for damages and expenses - Injunctions, restraining orders or other orders - Jurisdiction - Relief. - A. The Attorney General, upon request of the Department, shall...
§45-781. Land unsuitable for certain types of surface coal mining operations - Designation - Criteria. - A. The Department shall establish a planning process enabling objective...
§45-782. Petition to designate area as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations - Hearing - Decision - Impact statement. - A. Any person having an interest which is or may...
§45-783. Limitations on surface coal mining operations. - After August 3, 1977, and subject to valid existing rights,...
§45-784. Cooperative agreements with federal government. - The Department shall have the authority to enter into cooperative...
§45-785. Compliance with act. - Every agency, unit, or instrumentality of federal, state or local...
§45-786. Review of notices or order or modification, vacation or termination of notices or orders - Application - Investigation - Hearing - Temporary relief - Suspension or revocation of permit - Costs. - A. A permittee issued a notice or order by the...
§45-787. Appeal of order or other action. - Any order or other action of the Department or the...
§45-788. Enforcement or protection of interest in water resources - Replacement of water supply. - A. Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting...
§45-789. Rules and regulations. - The Department shall adopt and promulgate all necessary rules and...
§45-790. Unconstitutionality of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87). - If any provisions of this act are required by the...
§45-791. Federal rules and regulations - Compliance - Reimbursement for costs. - In compliance with all federal laws, rules and regulations, the...
§45-791.1. Alternative reclamation practices. - In order to encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices...
§45-792. Assistance of state agencies. - The Department is authorized to call upon the expertise of...
§45-793. Federally inspected reclamation activities. - During any action under which the Office of Surface Mining,...
§45-851. Text of Compact. - The Interstate Mining Compact is hereby entered into by this...
§45-852. Governor as ex officio member. - The Governor shall be, ex officio, this state's member of...
§45-853. Supplementary agreements - Legislative appropriation. - Any supplementary agreement entered into pursuant to Article VII of...
§45-901. Definitions. - As used in this act: 1. "Active workings" means any...
§45-902. Certificate of competency - Violations - Examinations - First-aid certificates. - It shall be unlawful for any person in the State...
§45-903. Certification of applicants - Fees. - Certifications provided for in this act shall be issued under...
§45-904. Records - Rights and duties of certificate holders. - The Secretary of the Board shall maintain a record of...
§45-905. Revocation of certificates - Notice. - The State Mining Board shall have power to revoke any...
§45-906. Temporary permits. - The Secretary of the Board may, upon the recommendation of...
§45-907. Inspection and examination of active strip and surface mines - Reports - Recommendations. - It shall be the duty of the Department of Mines...
§45-908. Employment of certified strip pit mine foreman. - The operator shall employ a certified strip pit mine foreman...
§45-909. Foreman - Duties and responsibilities. - The mine foreman shall keep a careful watch over all...
§45-910. Proper ground control - Rules and procedures. - A. The following rules and procedures shall be complied with...
§45-911. Explosives - Rules and procedures for storage. - A. Rules and procedures for storage of explosives shall be...
§45-912. Drilling for blasting - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with when...
§45-913. Loading, hauling or dumping - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with when...
§45-914. Travelways - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in...
§45-915. Electricity - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in...
§45-916. Equipment - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in...
§45-917. Personal protection - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in...
§45-918. Augering - Rules and procedures. - The following rules and procedures shall be complied with in...
§45-919. General rules and procedures. - The following general rules and procedures shall be complied with:...
§45-931. Operator's fee - Disposition - Production report and forms. - A. All operators of coal mining operations shall pay to...
§45-932. Delinquent reports and fees - Penalty - Time extension. - A. Any operator who shall fail or refuse to file...
§45-933. Failure to report - Ascertainment of coal mined - Determination of fees - Penalty. - If any operator shall fail to make reports at the...
§45-934. Lien for fees - Perfecting - Notice - Indexing - Release - Fees which are due and unpaid shall be a first...
§45-935. Collection of delinquent fees. - All delinquent fees imposed by this act shall constitute a...
§45-936. Payment of fee as condition precedent to coal mining - Default in payment as ground for injunctive relief. - Payment of the fee levied by this act shall be...
§45-937. Violations; penalty. - Any person who willfully obstructs or hinders the Chief Mine...
§45-938. Department of Mines Revolving Fund. - There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving...
§45-938.1. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute Revolving Fund. - There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving...
§45-939. Coal-fired electric generating plants - Burning Oklahoma coal. - All entities providing electric power for sale to the consumer...
§45-939.1. Cost increases to consumers and impairment of certain contracts prohibited. - The cost to the entity shall not increase the cost...
§45-940. Fly ash or other material from coal combustion, power-generating facilities and kiln dust generated by cement-producing entities - Solid waste permit exemption. - A. All fly ash, bottom ash or any other such...
§45-950. Moratorium on issuing permits or amending permits for locations overlying sensitive sole source groundwater basins or subbasins. - A. For purposes of this section, a "subject mine" shall...