HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1399

(g) The Bureau shall serve as the inspector of weights
and measures at every mine. The Bureau's inspectors, under
Bureau rules and regulations, shall conduct frequent
inspections of every scale, measuring instrument, car, and
container in order to determine its condition, accuracy,
correct branding weight, use, and operation, and assure the
proper use of the equipment and competency of any person
authorized to use it.

(h) A person having or using any scale, measure, car,
container, or other instrument for the purpose of
determining the amount of the product and the resulting
compensation of any workman employed in or about any mine,
knowingly or with gross negligence may not arrange,
construct, or operate any instrument so that an incorrect
determination and compensation is reported, or make or
permit to be made an incorrect and fraudulent record and
account of compensation. A separate offense exists for each
day any instrument is so arranged, constructed, or operated
to obtain an incorrect determination, or an incorrect and
fraudulent record and account is made or permitted to be
made.

(i) A person, with intent to cheat or defraud, may not
place on any car or other container loaded by any other
person, a number or check number, or change, alter, or
remove any number or check number.]

[7-458.

Every operator of any mine shall pay, in lawful money
of the United States, each worker, laborer, and wageworker,
or to his authorized agent, at his place of employment, his
correct wage, at intervals of not more than 17 days. An
operator may not refuse to pay the wage due any worker,
laborer, or wageworker at the proper time.]

[7-459.

If an operator of any mine discharges a worker, any
wage due the worker, and unpaid at the time of his discharge
becomes due and payable immediately.]

[7-460.

A person, not employed in the mine, may not enter the
mine unless he is authorized by law to do so or has the mine
operator's consent. A person entering the mine with the
operator's consent shall be accompanied by a competent guide
authorized by the operator.]

[7-461.

The operator of every mine shall adopt and install a
system under which any worker can check in and out of the
mine. The system shall be used if required by the rules and
regulations of the Bureau.]