2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 352 - MINING REGULATIONS
352.110 Mines to have two openings -- Exception -- Condemnation of land for opening.
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<![CDATA[352.110 Mines to have two openings -- Exception -- Condemnation of land for
opening.
(1)
(2)
No licensee, superintendent, mine manager, or mine foreman of any mine
opened after June 16, 1972, shall permit persons to work therein unless there
are to every seam of coal worked in the mine at least two (2) separate outlets,
separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred fifty (150) feet in
breadth if the mine is worked by shaft or slope, and separated by a pillar of
natural strata of not less than two thousand (2,000) square feet if the mine is
worked by drift, by which outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are
readily available to persons employed in the mine, but it shall not be necessary
for the two (2) outlets to belong to the same mine. This subsection does not
apply to the openings of a new entry that is being worked for the purpose of
making connection between the two (2) outlets so long as not more than twenty
(20) persons are employed at one (1) time in making the connection or driving
the second opening, or to any mine in which the second opening has been
rendered unavailable by reason of final robbing or removal of pillars so long as
not more than twenty (20) persons are employed therein at one (1) time, and
the workings are no farther than five hundred (500) feet from the bottom of the
shaft or slope or from the drift opening.
If any mine has but one (1) means of ingress or egress for persons employed
therein, and the owner does not own suitable ground for another opening, the
owner may select appropriate adjacent ground for that purpose and have it
condemned pursuant to the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 15, effective July 12, 2006. -Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 28, effective April 9, 1996. -- Amended
1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 279, effective January 2, 1978. -Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 11. -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 162,
sec. 20, effective March 5, 1952. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-21.
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.
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