                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXEMPTIONS (§ 59.1-413)

This chapter shall not apply to the construction, reconstruction, operation, and
maintenance of overhead electrical or communication circuits or conductors and
their supporting structures and associated equipment of (i) rail transportation
systems, (ii) electrical generating, transmission or distribution systems, (iii)
communication systems, including cable television, or (iv) any other publicly or
privately owned system provided that such work on any of the foregoing systems
is performed by the employees of the owner or operator of the systems or
independent contractors engaged on behalf of the owner or operator of the system
to perform the work.
		This chapter also shall not apply to electrical or communications circuits or
conductors on the premises of coal or other mines which are subject to the
provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. § 801
et seq.) and regulations adopted pursuant to that Act by the Mine Safety and
Health Administration.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 341.