2800 ARTICLE 89.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 133.

134. Any mine foreman holding a first-class certificate of competency
may act as fire boss; and in an emergency any fire boss, properly certified,
may act as assistant mine foreman until a regularly qualified person may
be employed.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 134.

135. The operator shall provide a permanent station at or near the
principal entrance of the mine, indicated plainly by legible signs, at which
the fire boss shall attend before men go in to their shifts, to give informa-
tion regarding the state of the mine. When the working portions of any
mine are one mile or more from the entrance to such mine or from the
bottom of the shaft or slope, a station may, with the approval of the dis-
trict mine inspector, be located near such workings. No one but the mine
foreman or fire boss or some one by them especially authorized in an
emergency may pass beyond such station until such mine has been ex-
amined in every part as hereinbefore required and reported safe. The fire
boss shall not permit any persons not authorized to enter into or remain in
any portion of such time through which a dangerous accumulation of gas
is being passed into the ventilating current from any portion of such mine,
and shall report any violation of this provision to the mine foreman. When
the station of the fire boss is located at a distance within the mine in order
to be convenient to portions being worked, the operator shall wall off all
abandoned workings, whether finished or not, from the main intake and
manway headings or passageways of the mine by stoppings of masonry or
concrete, sufficiently heavy to keep explosive or noxious gases from enter-
ing the intake air at any point between such fire bosses' station and the
entrance to such mine.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 135.

136. Suitable record books shall be kept at the mine office on the sur-
face and at the fire bosses' permanent station, in duplicate, to be accessible
to the district mine inspector and any employee of such mine. The fire
boss shall enter and sign in ink, a full daily report of each day's examina-
tion, stating clearly the approximate amount of explosive or noxious gases
found and where found, and also state clearly the nature and location of
any danger that may have been discovered in any place in such mine, and
whether such danger has been immediately reported to the mine foreman.
The mine foreman shall read and countersign such report each day.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 136.

137. Any fire boss who neglects to make any of the examinations here-
inbefore required, or fails to report any danger discovered or knowingly
reports falsely upon any condition within such mine, or fails or neglects
to make the reports required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.