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CHAPTER IX—Employees and Others.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 69. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 68.

69. No person shall be permitted to work in any mine until he has
satisfied the operator thereof that he can do the work allotted to him with-
out endangering the lives of his fellow workers, unless such person is put
to work with an experienced miner or some qualified person whose duty
it shall be to instruct such person how to perform his duties safely and
properly.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 70. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 69.

70. Each miner shall examine his working place upon entering same
before commencing work, and after any stoppage of work during the shift
he shall repeat such examination; and if any part of the roof thereof needs
propping, he shall prop the same, and shall not commence or resume work
until it is made safe. Such miner shall be very careful to keep his working
place in a safe condition at all times.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 71. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 70.

71. Such miner shall immediately cease work if at any time he finds
his place has become dangerous from any cause or condition beyond his
power to remedy. Upon leaving such place, he shall place some plain
danger signal at the entrance thereto, to warn other persons from enter-
ing ; and shall immediately notify the mine foreman; and he shall not
return thereto until notified by the mine foreman that the danger has been
removed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 72. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 71.

72. It shall be the duty of each employee at any such mine to notify
the mine foreman or other official of any unsafe condition, including un-
safe conditions of any working place, haulage road, or traveling way, or of
damage to doors, brattices, or of obstructions to any air passage or failure
in the ventilation which may become known to such employee.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 73. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 72.

73. Any person who shall intentionally or carelessly injure any safety
lamp, instrument, air course or brattice, or without authority handle, re-
move or damage any fencing, means of signalling, apparatus or machinery,
or shall obstruct or throw open airways, or enter a place in or about any
mine against caution, or carry fire, open lights, matches, pipes or other
smokers' articles beyond any station beyond which approved safety lamps
are used, or open any door the opening of which is forbidden, or disobey
any order given in carrying out the provisions of this sub-title or regula-
tion pursuant thereto, or do any other act whatsoever, whereby the lives or
health of persons employed or the security of the mine property is en-
dangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 74. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 73.

74. Such special duties relating to security of lives or property may
be defined and required of each employee in or about such mines by classes
of employment, as the Bureau by regulation may prescribe.