2808 ARTICLE 89.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 172.

173. No person shall go into or around a mine or the buildings or
machinery connected therewith, while under the influence of intoxicants
or deleterious drugs; nor shall any person use, carry, or have in his posses-
sion at, in, or around any such mine or the buildings or machinery con-
nected therewith, any intoxicants or deleterious drugs; and any violation
of this provision shall be a misdemeanor.

1922, ch. 307, see. 173.

174. No male child under the age of sixteen years, nor female of any
age, shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in,
about or in connection with any mine; provided, that this section shall
not apply to mine offices.
See art. 100.

CHAPTER XXVI—General Provisions.
1922, ch. 307, sec. 174.

175. Any person who neglects or refuses to perform the duties required
of him by this sub-title, or by regulations duly made thereunder, or who
violates any of the provisions or requirements thereof, shall, except as
otherwise provided in this sub-title, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall, upon conviction thereof in the circuit court of the county within
which the misdemeanor was committed, be punished by fine not exceeding
two hundred dollars. Any violation of this sub-title specially declared to
be a misdemeanor by any provision thereof shall be punished by a fine not
less than one hundred dollars, nor more chan five hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment not exceeding one year, unless otherwise specially provided
herein.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 175.

176. Wherever because of any provision of this sub-title' it becomes
necessary for any operator or other person to construct, reconstruct, change,
alter, commence or abandon any thing, matter or practice in, about, or
relating to any mine or mining operation, such operator or other person
may have three months time after October 1, 1922, for compliance there-
with ; and if after diligent effort such time prove insufficient, then such
operator or other person may, upon proper showing of diligence and
inability to comply, be granted by the Bureau a farther extension of time
for such compliance, not exceeding six months additional time.

1922, ch. 307, sec. 176.

177. If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
sub-title is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this sub-title, it being
the intention of the General Assembly to pass this subtitle, and each section,
sub-section, sentence and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any
one or more other sections, sub-sections, sentences or phrases be declared
unconstitutional.