Subject to the policies, rules and regulations of the Oklahoma Mining Commission, the Director shall:
1. Be responsible for organizing the Department of Mines in a manner efficiently to achieve the objectives of the Commission;
2. Prepare and submit plans for administering the programs of the Commission;
3. Prepare a personnel schedule, employ personnel, define duties, appoint technicians and consultants, and fix salaries or compensation, upon approval by the Commission; and
4. Administer all policies formulated and adopted by the Commission.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 239, § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§45-1.2. Violation of Board order - Notice - Hearing - Misdemeanor - Injunction - Action.
§45-1.3. Hearings - Hearing officer - Judicial review.
§45-1.4. Inspection of mines - Mining records.
§45-1.5. Rules and regulations.
§45-1a. Powers and duties of Commission.
§45-1b. Chief Mine Inspector - Director.
§45-1c. Powers and duties of Director.
§45-1d. Additional powers and duties of Director.
§45-1f. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute - Duties.
§45-1g. Department of Environmental Quality - Regulation of certain mining activities.
§45-2. Certificates of competency - Violations - Examinations - Qualification.
§45-3. Chief Mine Inspector - Assistant Mine Inpectors.
§45-3.1. Director of Department of Mines.
§45-5. Certificates - Contents - Fees.
§45-31. Chief Mine Inspector - Annual report to Governor.
§45-32. Examinations of mines.
§45-33. Journal of inspections - Official communications - Equipment and material.
§45-34. Office - Property of state.
§45-37. Withdrawal of person's from dangerous mine - Violations - Penalties.
§45-40. Obstruction of inspectors - Penalty.
§45-41. Disputes between operators and miners.
§45-44. Special counsel in certain proceedings involving Attorney General.
§45-45. Study of mining laws - Recommendations and proposed legislation.
§45-46. Market study and sulfur emissions standards study - Recommendations.
§45-47. Funding of activities.
§45-48. Borrow pits - Jurisdiction.
§45-412. Mine inspectors - Duties.
§45-413. Mine inspector to require compliance with act.
§45-414. Examination and inspection of mines - Time and manner.
§45-415. Dangerous conditions - Additional shafts.
§45-416. Health of employees - Underground excavations - Ventilation.
§45-417. Dust - Water lines - Sprinkling attachments.
§45-418. Loss of life or injury - Duty of operator and inspector.
§45-419. Shaft hoisting engineers - Age and experience - Duties - Loading and unloading.
§45-421. Shaft collars - Cribbing and timbering - Pipes and air lines.
§45-424. Explosives - Storage, transportation, handling and use.
§45-434. Orders of Mining Inspector - Review.
§45-435. Neglect or failure to perform requirements - Penalty.
§45-436. Open mine shafts - Covering - Approval - Penalties.
§45-437. Interference with protective covering devices - Penalties.
§45-442. Use of engines not meeting standards prohibited.
§45-477. May stop mining, when.
§45-478. Penalty for obstruction.
§45-502. Maps to be corrected every six months.
§45-503. Mine inspectors to be furnished copies of maps.
§45-504. Penalty for failure to furnish map copies.
§45-505. Conduct of developments.
§45-506. Ventilation - Construction of air and hoisting shafts.
§45-507. Openings to be separated by natural strata.
§45-508. Shaft not more than seventy-five feet deep.
§45-509. Hoisting machinery in shaft over seventy-five feet deep.
§45-510. Angle of traveled slope.
§45-511. Inspection of hoisting equipment and stairs.
§45-512. Safety equipment for shafts.
§45-513. Quality and testing of chains.
§45-514. Number of persons lowered or hoisted at one time.
§45-515. Inspection - Guard railings.
§45-518. Ventilating fans and doors.
§45-519. Mines to be kept free from gas.
§45-522. Electric wires to be insulated.
§45-523. Machines to be shielded - Electric pumps.
§45-524. Use of oil and grease.
§45-525. Precautions in dangerous workings.
§45-527. Precautions against dust or explosive matter.
§45-528.1. Water on cutter bars and rock drills - Use required.
§45-528.2. Violations by mine owners, operators, etc.
§45-528.3. Violations by miners and persons operating drills or machines.
§45-529. Workers' compensation coverage - Penalties - Exceptions.
§45-580. Punishment for offense.
§45-603. Cheating by molesting check numbers on cars.
§45-604. Punishment for offense.
§45-614. Definition of special terms.
§45-615. Violations of statute as misdemeanors - Civil liability.
§45-616. Construction of sewage or drainage facilities into operating or abandoned mine - Penalty.
§45-722. Declaration of policy.
§45-724. Permits - Limited Use Permits - Applications - Bond - Permit or bond release applications.
§45-725. Procedure for reclaiming land.
§45-726. Refuse disposal areas.
§45-729. Violations - Notice - Hearing - Enforcement - Informing of surface owners.
§45-732. Powers and duties of Department.
§45-734. Chief Mine Inspector.
§45-735. Sand and gravel - Inspections - Penalties.
§45-737. Governmental agencies to conform.
§45-740.2. Legislative findings - Purpose.
§45-740.3. Powers and duties of Commission.
§45-740.4. Participation in Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
§45-745.2. Term of permit - Fee - Transferability.
§45-745.3. Termination of permit - Extension.
§45-745.4. Renewal of permit - Application - Burden of proof - Term.
§45-745.8. Criteria for approval of permit or revision application.
§45-745.10. Revision of permit.
§45-745.13. Objections to application for permit - Informal conference - Hearings.
§45-745.14. Findings - Notice to applicant - Hearing on findings.
§45-745.16.1. Small operator assistance program.
§45-745.18. Impoundments of water on mining sites.
§45-745.19. Augering operations.
§45-745.20. Disposal of wastes.
§45-745.21. Surface mining near active and abandoned underground mines.
§45-745.22. Reclamation efforts - Variances.
§45-747. Backfilling, compacting, and grading.
§45-748. Conditions where backfilling, compacting, and grading are necessary.
§45-749. Restoring excess overburden, spoils and waste materials.
§45-750. Removal and restoration of topsoil.
§45-751. Disturbances to hydrologic balance.
§45-753. Explosives - Rules and regulations.
§45-754. Reestablishment of native flora - Length of liability.
§45-754.1. Spoil material - Placement.
§45-754.2. Performance standards.
§45-755. Steep slope surface mining - Performance standards - Exemptions.
§45-757. Prime farmland - Soil restoration - Exemptions.
§45-760. Mine operators - Duties.
§45-760.1. Suspension of underground mining in certain areas.
§45-760.2. Application of act to surface operations - Modifications.
§45-761. Licenses and permits - Display - Inspection.
§45-765. Data collection and analysis.
§45-766. Right of entry - Inspections - Signs - Violations - Public inspection of records, etc.
§45-767. Conflicts of interest - Violations.
§45-768. Reports of violations of act - Informal review - Inspection procedure.
§45-770. Release of performance bond or deposit - Application.
§45-771. Release of performance bond or deposit - Inspection and evaluation of reclamation work.
§45-774. Civil actions to compel compliance with act - Exceptions.
§45-775. Inspection of violations.
§45-777. Abatement of violation - Notice - Hearing - Cessation orders.
§45-778. Suspension or revocation of permit.
§45-779. Notices and orders - Requirements.
§45-783. Limitations on surface coal mining operations.
§45-784. Cooperative agreements with federal government.
§45-787. Appeal of order or other action.
§45-788. Enforcement or protection of interest in water resources - Replacement of water supply.
§45-789. Rules and regulations.
§45-790. Unconstitutionality of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87).
§45-791. Federal rules and regulations - Compliance - Reimbursement for costs.
§45-791.1. Alternative reclamation practices.
§45-792. Assistance of state agencies.
§45-793. Federally inspected reclamation activities.
§45-852. Governor as ex officio member.
§45-853. Supplementary agreements - Legislative appropriation.
§45-902. Certificate of competency - Violations - Examinations - First-aid certificates.
§45-903. Certification of applicants - Fees.
§45-904. Records - Rights and duties of certificate holders.
§45-905. Revocation of certificates - Notice.
§45-907. Inspection and examination of active strip and surface mines - Reports - Recommendations.
§45-908. Employment of certified strip pit mine foreman.
§45-909. Foreman - Duties and responsibilities.
§45-910. Proper ground control - Rules and procedures.
§45-911. Explosives - Rules and procedures for storage.
§45-912. Drilling for blasting - Rules and procedures.
§45-913. Loading, hauling or dumping - Rules and procedures.
§45-914. Travelways - Rules and procedures.
§45-915. Electricity - Rules and procedures.
§45-916. Equipment - Rules and procedures.
§45-917. Personal protection - Rules and procedures.
§45-918. Augering - Rules and procedures.
§45-919. General rules and procedures.
§45-931. Operator's fee - Disposition - Production report and forms.
§45-932. Delinquent reports and fees - Penalty - Time extension.
§45-933. Failure to report - Ascertainment of coal mined - Determination of fees - Penalty.
§45-934. Lien for fees - Perfecting - Notice - Indexing - Release
§45-935. Collection of delinquent fees.
§45-938. Department of Mines Revolving Fund.
§45-938.1. Oklahoma Miner Training Institute Revolving Fund.
§45-939. Coal-fired electric generating plants - Burning Oklahoma coal.
§45-939.1. Cost increases to consumers and impairment of certain contracts prohibited.