2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .170   Gas detectors or electric lamps required -- Unauthorized devices for making lights and fires forbidden.

352.170 Gas detectors or electric lamps required -- Unauthorized devices for making lights and fires forbidden. (1) All underground mines shall be worked exclusively by the use of approved electric lamps for personal lighting. (2) All mine foremen and fire bosses employed in mines shall carry approved gas detection devices for the purpose of detecting the presence of explosive and dangerous gases and deficiencies of oxygen. (3) No person shall at any time carry into any mine any intoxicants. No person shall at any time enter any underground mine with matches, pipes, cigars, cigarettes, or any device for making lights or fire not authorized or approved, and the licensee shall at frequent intervals search, or cause to be searched, any person entering or about to enter the mine or inside the mine, to prevent the person from taking, carrying, or using the articles therein. Effective: July 15, 2002 History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 355, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 32, effective April 9, 1996. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 16. -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 24, effective March 25, 1952. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-26. Legislative Research Commission Note (4/9/96). The action taken with respect to this statute by 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308 was to have become effective April 8, 1996, under Section 51 of that Act. The Act, however, did not become effective until April 9, 1996, when the Governor's signed copy of the Act was filed with the Secretary of State.