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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71999</law_id><section_number>45.2-730</section_number><catch_line> Signs, life lines, and equipment</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="II">Coal Mining</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Underground Coal Mines</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="7">Requirements Applicable to Underground Coal Mines; Mine Construction</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="6">Mine Openings and Escapeways</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Direction signs shall be posted conspicuously at all points where a travel way to the mine opening, escapeway, or escapement shaft is intercepted by another travel way. The signs shall indicate the direction of the place of exit and any manway or escapeway. <a id="paragraph-259434" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-730/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Continuous life lines shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the approved emergency response plan pursuant to subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title=" Emergency response plans; list of next of kin" href="/45.2-820/">45.2-820</a>. <a id="paragraph-259435" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-730/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Every escapeway shall be equipped with all necessary stairways, ladders, cleated walkways, or other equipment approved by the <span class="dictionary">Chief</span>. All equipment shall be installed in such a manner that a person using it in an emergency may do so quickly and without undue hazard. <a id="paragraph-259436" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/45.2-730/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 45-71, 45-71.1; 1954, c. 191; 1966, c. 594, &#xA7;&#xA7; 45.1-94, 45.1-95; 1984, c. 228; 1985, c. 395; 1990, c. 372; 1992, c. 360; 1994, c. 28, &#xA7; 45.1-161.166; 1996, c. 774; 2011, cc. 826, 862; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
