Title 45 — Title 45 — Mines and Mining

Any order made by the Mining Inspector under the provisions of this or any other act pertaining to or affecting any mine or mines or the operation thereof, wherein the issuance thereof is within the discretion of the Mining Inspector and the doing or omitting of the specific act …

The neglect, failure or refusal to perform or comply with the authorized requirement of said Mining Inspector, acting under the provisions of this act, by any firm, association, corporation, person or parties required to perform them, shall be a misdemeanor, and where the duty so…

Any person, firm or corporation, who knowingly maintains, uses or abandons an open vertical mine shaft wherein lead, zinc or other metals have been sought or produced, without covering suitably, or surrounding such installations with protective fencing, or plugging and filling, t…

Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of destroying, removing, or damaging or otherwise interfering with the fencing, or other protective devices approved by the Chief Mine Inspector, as provided in Section 1 hereof, shall be fined not less than Twenty- five Dollars ($25.0…

General. If the Attorney General shall seek redress on behalf of the state as provided for in the Administrative Procedures Act, the Oklahoma Mining Commission is empowered to appoint a special counsel for such proceedings. Added by Laws 1985, c. 239, § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

Approval of use - Inspections - Suspension or discontinuance of use. The use of diesel engines equipped for detoxification in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Bureau of mines may be used in lead, zinc, and other metal mines in this state. Provided, th…

It shall be unlawful to use or to order or permit the use of any diesel engine in any lead, zinc or other metal mine in this state at any time which is not equipped with detoxification equipment and other safety devices meeting the standards set forth in the rules and recommendat…

legislation. In addition to its other powers, the Oklahoma Mining Commission is authorized and directed, within the limits of funds available to it, to engage in a continuing study of the mining laws of this state, and of changes therein required in order to carry out to the grea…

Recommendations. The Oklahoma Mining Commission is authorized and directed, within the limits of funds available to it, to study ways to expand existing markets and create new markets for Oklahoma coal and other minerals, to study the impact of sulfur emission standards on burnin…

The Department of Environmental Quality, in cooperation with the Department of Mines is authorized and directed, within the limits of federal funds available to the Department of Environmental Quality or any funds available to the Department of Mines, to study ways to remediate a…

45 O.S. § 461 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 462 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 463 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 464 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 465 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 466 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 467 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

45 O.S. § 468 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

Funding for the Oklahoma Mining Commission's activities shall be derived from funds appropriated to the Department of Mines for operating expenses. Funds required for any third party studies called for by a majority vote of the Commission members shall come from contributions by …

45 O.S. § 476 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 160, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

Such inspector, and each of his assistants, shall also have power to immediately stop the operation of any mine or part thereof where any dangerous or unlawful conditions are found: Provided, however, that where conditions exist justifying him to do so, he may grant a reasonable …

Every person who willfully obstructs the Chief Inspector or his assistant inspectors in the execution of his or their duties, and every owner, agent, lessee or manager of a mine who refuses or neglects to furnish to the Cheif Mine Inspector or his assistants, the means necessary …

The Oklahoma Department of Mines shall have jurisdiction over only those borrow pits which are located on property permitted as commercial mining operations pursuant to Title 45 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 1993, c. 232, § 2, eff. July 1, 1993.

Certifications required by this title shall be issued under the signature and seal of the Oklahoma Mining Commission. Such certificates shall bear the date of issuance, full name and age of the recipient and shall designate the position for which the recipient is certified by the…

The owner, agent, lessee or operator of every coal or other mine, shall make, or cause to be made by a competent mining engineer or surveyor, an accurate map or plan, of such mine, no smaller than on a scale of two hundred (200) feet to an inch, which map shall show as follows: (…

At least every six (6) months, or oftener if necessary, the operator, owner, lessee, or agent of each mine shall cause to be shown accurately on the map or plan of said mine, all the excavations made therein during the time elapsing since such excavations were last shown upon sai…

The operator or superintendent of every mine shall furnish the mine inspectors of the district in which said mine is located with a correct copy, on tracing muslin or sunprint, of the map or plan of said mine hereinbefore provided for, and the inspector of the district shall at t…

If any superintendent or operator of mines shall neglect or fail to furnish to the mine inspector any copy of maps or plans as hereinbefore required by this Act, or, if the mine inspector shall believe that any map or plan of any coal or other mine made or furnished in pursuance …

In the preparation of maps of the territory being, or to be, developed in mining operations, it shall be the duty of the operator, where practicable, to furnish the district inspector prospective plans suitable to the coal seam and adjacent strata, for the safe economic extractio…

It shall be unlawful for the operator or superintendent, mine foreman or other person, to employ more than ten persons in any coal or other mine, or permit more than ten persons to be employed therein at any one time unless they are in communication with at least two available op…

In all shaft mines the openings to the surface hereinbefore provided for shall be separated from each other by natural strata at all points by a distance of not less than one hundred fifty (150) feet, and at all mines worked by slope openings, the distance separating openings sha…

When the opening or outlet other than the main opening is a shaft and does not exceed seventy-five (75) feet in vertical depth, and is used by the employees for the purpose of ingress and egress from the mine, it shall be kept in a safe and available condition and free from steam…

When any mine is operated by a shaft which exceeds seventy-five (75) feet in vertical depth, the persons employed in said mine shall be lowered into and raised from said mine by means of machinery, and where the employees are lowered into and hoisted from the mines at the main sh…

At any mine where one of the two openings as required herein, is a slope and is used as a traveling way, it shall not have a greater angle of descent than twenty degrees (20o) and may be of any depth. R.L.1910, § 3965.

The ropes, chains, machinery and all of its connections used for lowering or raising the employees into or out of the mines, and the stairs used for ingress and egress shall be kept in a safe condition, and inspected once every twenty-four (24) hours by a competent person provide…

The operator or superintendent shall provide and maintain from the top to bottom of every shaft, where persons are raised or lowered, a metal tube suitably adapted to the free passage of sound through which conversation may be held between persons at the top and bottom of said sh…

The main coupling chain, attached to the socket of the wire rope, shall be made of the best quality of iron and shall be tested by weights, or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the mine inspector of the district where the mine is located, and the bridle chains shall be attached t…

No greater number of persons shall be lowered or hoisted at any one time than may be permitted by the mine inspector of the district, and notice of the number so allowed to be lowered or hoisted at any one time shall be kept posted up by the operator or superintendent in conspicu…

The ropes, chains, machinery and all of its connections used at the operating shaft and slope mines, where the employees are lowered into or hoisted from the mine, and the same used on all gravity and inclined planes, shall be inspected and a record made of said inspection in the…

The operator of every coal or other mine, whether shaft, slope or drift shall provide and hereafter maintain ample means of ventilation affording not less than one hundred fifty (150) cubic feet of air per minute, for each and every person employed therein, and seven hundred fift…

Stoppings between intake and return airways. Not more than forty-five persons shall be permitted to work in the same air current and mines where ten or more persons are employed shall be provided with a fan or other artificial means to produce the ventilation, but no furnace shal…

All ventilating fans shall be kept in operation night and day unless operations are indefinitely suspended, except written permission is given by the mine inspector of the district to stop the same, and the said written permission shall state the particular hours the said fan may…

All mines generating fire damp shall be kept free of standing gas in all working places and roadways. No accumulation of explosive gas shall be allowed to exist in the worked-out or abandoned parts of any mine. It shall be removed as soon as possible after its discovery, and no m…

In all mines wherein explosive gas is generated, and also in all mines where the fire damp has generated, in sufficient quantities to be detected by the ordinary safety lamp, every working place without exception, and all roadways shall be carefully examined immediately before ea…

The fire boss shall at each entrance to the mine, or to the main intake airway, near to the mine entrance, prepare a permanent station with the proper danger signals designated as follows: X-(DATE OF MONTH)-X and it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, except the mine o…

In all mines where electricity is, used as a part of the system, power or means of mining and procuring the coal or other mineral therefrom, the owners, or operators thereof shall cause all wires conducting electricity in and about said mines, to be carefully and thoroughly insul…

In mines where mining machines are used, each machine shall be equipped and provided with a sufficient shield for the protection of those employed in or about said machines or in the use and operation thereof, and said shield shall be kept in use constantly while said machine is …

The oiling or greasing of cars inside of the mines is strictly forbidden, unless the place where said oil or grease is used is thoroughly cleansed once every day to prevent the accumulation of waste oil or grease on the roads or in the drains at that point. Not more than one (1) …

In any place that is being driven towards, or in dangerous proximity to, an abandoned mine or part of mine, suspected of containing inflammable, noxious or poisonous gases, or which may be inundated with water, boreholes shall be kept not less than twelve (12) feet in advance of …

In case any entry, or room in any coal mine in this state is so dry that the air becomes clogged with dust, the operator, owner, lessee or agent, or whoever is operating said mine in any capacity, shall have such entry, airway or room, regularly and thoroughly sprinkled, sprayed …