                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 AFFILIATIONS OF DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL WITH LABOR UNION, MINING COMPANY, ETC.;
INTEREST IN MINE; INSPECTIONS OF MINES WHERE INSPECTOR PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED (§
45.2-1108)

A. Neither the Director nor any other officer or employee of the Department
shall, upon taking office or being employed, or at any other time during the
term of his office or employment, have any affiliation with any operating
company, operators&#8217; association, or labor union or fail to comply with the
provisions of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act (&#xA7;
2.2-3100 et seq.). Neither the Director nor any other officer while in office
shall be directly or indirectly interested as owner, partner, proprietor,
lessor, operator, superintendent, or engineer of any mine, nor shall the
Director or any other officer while in office own any stock in a corporation
that owns a mine either directly or through a subsidiary.

B. Neither the Director nor any mine inspector shall perform an inspection at
any mine at which he was last employed for a period of two years following
termination of his employment.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 390, § 45.1-161.292:9; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.