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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75543</law_id><section_number>45.2-1154</section_number><catch_line> Duties of operator</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="45.2">Mines, Minerals, and Energy</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Mineral Mines</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Mineral Mines Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="11">Mineral Mine Safety Act</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="7">Mine Inspections</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Each operator of a mine, or his agent, shall furnish to the <span class="dictionary">Director</span> and each mine inspector proper facilities for entering such mine and making examinations or obtaining information and shall furnish any data or information not of a confidential nature requested by such inspector. <a id="paragraph-271394" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-1154/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Each operator of an underground mine, or his agent, shall provide each mine inspector adequate means for transportation to the active working areas of the mine within a reasonable time following the mine inspector&#x2019;s arrival at the mine. <a id="paragraph-271395" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-1154/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Such operator or agent shall, when ordered to do so by a mine inspector during the course of an inspection, promptly clear the mine or section thereof of all persons. <a id="paragraph-271396" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-1154/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1997, c. 390, &#xA7; 45.1-161.292:60; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
