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This law was first created in 1993. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 389 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1993 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1994, chapter 28<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":86193,"section_number":"45.2-529","catch_line":" Reexamination","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-529\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":223665,"object_type":"law","relational_id":79432,"identifier":"45.2-857","token":"45.2\/II\/B\/8\/5\/45.2-857","url":"\/45.2-857\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-857\/","token":"45.2\/II\/B\/8\/5\/45.2-857","dublin_core":{"Title":" Allowing persons to work in a mine with smoker’s articles; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-857","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No operator, agent, or mine foreman<\/span> shall knowingly permit any person in an underground coal mine to smoke, carry, or possess any smoker’s articles or materials<\/span> used for igniting smoker’s articles. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Violation of this section is a Class 6 felony<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n ALLOWING PERSONS TO WORK IN A MINE WITH SMOKER’S ARTICLES; PENALTY (\u00a7\n45.2-857)\n\nA. No operator, agent, or mine foreman shall knowingly permit any person in an\nunderground coal mine to smoke, carry, or possess any smoker’s articles or\nmaterials used for igniting smoker’s articles.\n\nB. Violation of this section is a Class 6 felony.\n\nHISTORY: 1993, c. 389, \u00a7 45.1-98.3; 1994, c. 28, \u00a7 45.1-161.178; 2021, Sp.\nSess. I, c. 387.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}