purchased.
[=Provisions of this act shall apply only to oil used for open
lights.=] The provisions of this act relating to the compounding,
sale and use of oil for illuminating purposes in coal mines, shall
apply to oil used in lamps for open lights. The oil used in safety
lamps may be of such composition as will best serve the purpose.
(Sec. 944, 974; Penalty, Sec. 976.)
=RELATING TO PENALTIES.=
=County Coroner.=
Sec. 976. Any county coroner who, after receiving notice of a fatal
accident, or of an accident, which has resulted in the death of a
person, at, in, or around a mine, from the owner, lessee or agent of
such mine, or the chief inspector of mines, willfully refuses or
neglects to comply, so far as such provisions relate to him, with
the provisions of section nine hundred and twenty-one of the General
Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, at the discretion
of the court.
=Owner, lessee or agent.=
Any owner, lessee or agent of a mine, or any person, firm or
corporation opening a new mine, having written knowledge of a
violation of this act, who willfully refuses or neglects to comply
with the provisions of section nine hundred and twenty-two, nine
hundred and twenty-three, nine hundred and twenty-four, nine hundred
and twenty-five, nine hundred and twenty-six, nine hundred and
twenty-seven, nine hundred and twenty-eight, nine hundred
twenty-nine, nine hundred and thirty, nine hundred and thirty-one,
nine hundred and thirty-two, nine hundred and thirty-three, nine
hundred and thirty-four, nine hundred and thirty-seven, nine hundred
and thirty-eight, nine hundred and thirty-nine, nine hundred and
forty, nine hundred and forty-one, nine hundred and forty-two, nine
hundred and forty-three, nine hundred and forty-four, nine hundred
and forty-five, nine hundred and forty-six, nine hundred and
forty-seven, nine hundred and forty-eight, nine hundred and
forty-nine, nine hundred and fifty, or nine hundred and seventy-one
of the General Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and for a
second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the
court.
=Superintendent, mine-foreman or over-seer.=
Any superintendent, mine-foreman, foreman or overseer, who willfully
refuses or ne
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