351.030 Hearings before department -- Petition for intervention.
(1) All administrative hearings conducted by the department shall be conducted in
accordance with KRS Chapter 13B and this section. Following the hearing, the <br>department shall decide each matter in controversy. No person shall be discharged <br>or otherwise discriminated against by his or her employer for testifying, or for his <br>failure to testify, at these hearings.
(2) The executor or administrator of a deceased miner's estate, or his or her designee, in
the case of a fatality, miners that are injured as a result of an accident, and miners <br>that are significantly affected by the conduct that gave rise to a disciplinary <br>proceeding shall be granted the right of intervention in the penalty phase of that <br>proceeding. The petition for intervention shall be made in accordance with KRS <br>13B.060(3). All hearings before the Mine Safety Review Commission shall be open <br>proceedings. Any party with pertinent information regarding a mine accident may <br>submit that information directly to the Office of Mine Safety and Licensing's chief <br>accident investigator.
Effective: June 26, 2007 <br>History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 2, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 308, sec. 2, effective April 9, 1996; and ch. 318, sec. 330, effective July 15, 1996. <br>-- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 298, sec. 2. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, <br>sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3766b-16.
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 <br>Section 51 of that Act. The Act, however, did not become effective until April 9, <br>1996, when the Governor's signed copy of the Act was filed with the Secretary of <br>State.
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