                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 ADOPTION OF REGULATIONS (§ 45.2-1402)

The Director shall adopt regulations:

1. Regarding transportation of miners, including regulations regarding (i) the
carrying of tools by miners on mantrips; (ii) the riding of any miner, except
the motorman and trip rider, inside a car; and (iii) the boarding and
disembarking of miners to and from mantrips;

2. Requiring any bare wire and any cable other than a ground wire, grounded
power conductor, or trailing cable to be supported by insulators and away from
combustible materials, roof, and ribs;

3. Regarding the bonding, welding, or securing of rails and track switches where
track is used to conduct electrical power;

4. Requiring the installation of disconnecting switches underground in all main
power circuits at appropriate locations;

5. Requiring respiratory equipment and hearing protection, including by
requiring that (i) each miner exposed for short periods to a hazard from
inhalation of gas, dust, or fumes wear approved respiratory equipment and (ii)
each operator supply hearing protection to miners upon request; and

6. Requiring that fire precautions be taken when mining equipment is transported
underground in proximity to energized trolley wires or trolley feeder wires.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 45-14.1, 45-69.2, 45-82, 45-82.1, 45-82.3, 45-86; 1954,
c. 191; 1966, c. 594, §§ 45.1-74, 45.1-78, 45.1-80, 45.1-89, 45.1-99; 1985, c.
296; 1994, c. 28, § 45.1-161.298; 1974, c. 323; 1978, c. 118, 729, §
45.1-99.1; 1984, c. 590; 1985, c. 296, 500; 1993, c. 442; 1994, c. 28, §§
45.1-161.298 through 45.1-161.303; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.