Sec. 975. [=No oil for illuminating purposes in mines shall be sold
except oil prescribed in this act.=] No person, firm or corporation
shall sell or offer for sale, any oil for illuminating purposes in
any coal mine unless the barrel or package in which such oil was
received bears the label of the compounder as provided for in this
act. Each person, firm or corporation selling or offering for sale
any oil for illuminating purposes in any coal mine, shall, upon
request of any district inspector of mines, or of any officer or
duly authorized agent of any owner or lessee of a coal mine located
within two miles of the point where such oil is offered for sale,
submit such oil and the original containers for examination, and
upon request, give a sample of such oil from one or more original
containers selected by such inspector, officer or agent, for the
purpose of making a test thereof.
[=Adulteration of illuminating oil forbidden.=] No person shall
adulterate any oil either before or after taking same from the
original containers, and shall not alter, transfer, or re-use any
label placed upon any container.
[=Persons forbidden to use oil other than prescribed in this act.=]
No person shall use for illuminating purposes in any coal mine, any
oil other than the oil specifically provided for in this act. Each
person, while in a coal mine, shall, upon request of any district
inspector of mines, or any officer or duly authorized agent of the
owner or lessee, submit his lamp and supply of oil for examination,
and upon request, give sample of oil for purpose of making test
thereof, and state from whom 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.=
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