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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56771</law_id><section_number>45.2-832</section_number><catch_line> Notice of monitor tampering prohibition</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="8">Requirements Applicable to Underground Coal Mines; Electricity, Safety, Etc</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="4">Ventilation, Mine Gases, and Other Hazardous Conditions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The operator or agent shall display, in bold-faced type, on a sign placed at the mine office, at the bath house, and on a bulletin board at the mine site, the following notice:
		NOTICE: IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISTURB, DISCONNECT, BYPASS, IMPAIR, OR OTHERWISE TAMPER WITH METHANE MONITORS OR OTHER DEVICES CAPABLE OF DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF EXPLOSIVE GASES IN AN UNDERGROUND COAL MINE. A VIOLATION IS PUNISHABLE AS A CLASS 6 <span class="dictionary">FELONY</span>.</p></section></text><history>1993, c. 247, &#xA7; 45.1-65.2; 1994, c. 28, &#xA7; 45.1-161.215; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
