supreme in health State board supreme in all health matters and they are empowered to remove any deputy or local health officer for any violation of any of the provisions of this act. matters Sections herein SEC. 28. Each section of this act and every part of each section thereof is hereby declared to be independent sections and parts of sections and the holding of any section or part independent thereof to be void or ineffective for any cause shall not be of each other deemed to affect any other section or part thereof. declared Printing Repeal Relief of SEC. 29. The state printer shall supply to the state board of health all stationery, blanks and bound books that may be required on a requisition of the secretary of said board. SEC. 30. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. CHAP. 200-An act to provide for the relief of Guy Guinan. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of three hundred and fifty ($350) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Guy Guinan, for services as assistant clerk in the office of clerk of supreme court, for the months of January, February and the first ten days of March, during the year 1911. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his Duties of con- warrant in favor of the said Guy Guinan for the amount named in this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the troller and treasurer same. Inspector has full power to make investigations CHAP. 201-An act to amend an act entitled An act creating the office of inspector of mines; fixing his duties and powers: providing for the appointment of a deputy and firing the compensation of both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines," approved March 24, 1909, by amending section 5 and by adding additional sections thereto. [Approved March 27, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. Said state inspector of mines shall have full power and authority at all hours, to enter and examine any and all mines in this state, and shall have the right to enter into any and all mine stopes, levels, winzes, tunnels, shafts. has full tigations drifts, crosscuts, working and machinery for the purpose of Inspector such examination; and the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, man- power to ager or other person in charge of such mine or mines shall make invesrender the inspector such assistance as may be required by the inspector to enable him to make full, thorough and complete examination of each and every part of such mine or mines, and whenever as the result of the examination of any mine (whether such examination is made in consequence of a complaint, as hereinafter provided, or otherwise) the inspector shall find the same to be in an unsafe condition, he shall at once serve or cause to be served, a written notice upon the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, manager, or other person in charge of such mine, stating in detail in what particular the mine is dangerous or insecure, and shall require all necessary changes to be made, without delay, for the purpose of making said mine safe for the employees therein, and in the case of any criminal or civil proceedings at law against the party or parties so notified, on account of the loss of life or bodily injury sustained by an employee subsequent to the service of such notice, and in consequence of a neglect or refusal to obey the inspector's requirements, a certified copy served by the inspector shall be prima facie evidence of the culpable negligence of the party or parties so notified. SEC. 2. The following additional sections are added to said act to be numbered as follows: Section 14. No blasting powder or any high explosive con- Amount of taining nitroglycerine shall be stored in any mine; provided, poited to that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the underground operator of any mine from keeping sufficient blasting powder or other high explosive within such mine to meet the estimated requirements of such mine during the succeeding twenty-four hours; and provided further, that such temporary supply shall not be kept in any place within such mine, where its accidental discharge would cut off the escape of miners working therein. All blasting powder, or other high explosive, in excess of the temporary supply required in such mine shall be stored in a magazine not less than three hundred feet distant from any shaft, adit, habitation, public highway or public railway. tamping bars Section 15. Companies shall at all times furnish the Wooden miners with wooden tamping bars to be used in loading or must be used charging holes, and any one using a steel or metal tamping bar shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in a competent court shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. Section 16. All timber removed shall, as soon as practi- Dead timber cable, be taken from the mine and shall not be piled up and must be permitted to decay underground. taken away Section 17. All hoisting machinery using steam, electric- Indicator ity, gasoline or hydraulic motive power, for the purpose of must be used hoisting or lowering into metalliferous mines, employees and on loaded material, shall be equipped with an indicator to be placed in plain view of engineer. Section 18. All persons shall be prohibited from riding As to riding upon the cage, skip or bucket loaded with tools, timber, powder or other material, except for the purpose of assisting in passing same through shaft or incline, and then only on special signal. buckets Shafts to have two compart ments, when Section 19. All shafts shall be equipped with ladders, and shafts more than 200 feet in depth inclined more than 45 degrees from the horizontal equipped with hoisting machinery shall be divided into at least two compartments; one compartment to be partitioned off and set aside for a ladderThe ladders shall be sufficiently strong for the purpose demanded and landings shall be constructed not more than thirty feet apart; said landing to be closely covered except an opening large enough to permit the passage of a man. A landing shall be constructed in manway at all working levels. Ladders and way. landings trap door near collar of shaft Ladders in upraises and winzes shall be provided and kept in repair, but where winzes or raises connecting levels are used only for ventilation and exit, only one such on each level need be equipped. Section 20. In every mine within this state, if more than Bulkhead or 200 feet in depth, where a single shaft affords the only means of egress to persons employed underground and the ladderway compartment is covered by a nonfireproof building, it shall be the duty of the operator of said mine to cause said ladderway to be securely bulkheaded or a trap door placed over same at a point at least twenty-five feet below the collar of the shaft, and if a trap door is used it must be kept closed or so arranged that it can be closed from a point outside of the building by the releasing of a rope, and below this bulkhead or trap door, if the shaft is situated upon a side hill. a drift shall be driven to the surface, and if the shaft containing said ladderway may be otherwise situated, this drift shall be driven on a level to a safe distance, but in no case less than thirty feet beyond the walls of the building covering the main shaft and from such a point a raise shall be made to the surface. The said raise shall be equipped with a ladderway and it, together with the drift connecting with the main shaft. shall be kept in good repair and shall afford an easy exit in the event of fire. Signboards, when No gasoline underground Precautions in sinking shaft Section 21. Whenever the exit or outlet from a mine is not in a direct or continuous course signboards plainly marked showing the direction to be taken must be placed at each departure from the continuous course. Section 22. Use of gasoline underground is forbidden. Section 23. Employees engaged in sinking shaft or incline shall at all times be provided with chain or other kind of ladder so arranged as to insure safe means of exit. Section 24. At all shaft stations a guard rail or rails shall at stations be provided and kept in place across the shaft, in front of the Guard rails level, so arranged that it will prevent persons from walking, and winzes falling or pushing a car or other conveyance into the shaft. All winzes and all mill holes shall be covered or surrounded with guard rails to prevent persons from stepping or falling into the same. encased, and appliances Section 25. The cage or cages in all shafts over 350 feet Cages to be in depth shall be provided with sheet-iron or steel casing, not have other less than 1 inch thick, or with a netting composed of wire safety not less than 1 inch in diameter and with doors made of the same material as the side casing, either hung on hinges or working in slides. These doors shall extend at least four feet above the bottom of the cage and must be closed when lowering or hoisting men, except timbermen riding on the cage to attend to timbers that are being lowered or hoisted; provided, that when such cage is used for sinking only, it need not be equipped with such doors as are hereinbefore provided for. Every cage must have overhead bars of such arrangement as to give every man on the cage an easy and secure handhold. Section 26. A pillar of ground shall be left standing on Shaft each side of the shaft of sufficient dimensions to protect and protected secure the same, and in no case shall stoping be permitted up Close stoping to or within such close proximity to the shaft as to render prohibited the same insecure, until such time as the shaft is to be abandoned and the pillar withdrawn. provisions Section 27. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any Shaft houses, mine within this state to erect any structure over the shaft regarding of any mine, except head frames necessary for hoisting from such shaft or outlet, and the hatch or door necessary for closing such shaft or outlet; provided, however, it shall be lawful to erect a housing of noninflammable and fireproof material over such shaft or adit to protect the men working at such point. In the case of existing houses covering the mouths of shafts or adits, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the mine to cause the immediate removal of all inflammable material stored therein and it shall be the further duty of such superintendent to prohibit the storage of any inflammable material thirty feet from the exterior walls of any housing hereinafter built. tunnels Section 28. It shall be the duty of every operator to pro- Buildings at vide every tunnel or adit level, the mouth of which is covered mouths of by a house or building of any kind, with a door near the month of the same, that can be closed from the outside of the building by a pull wire or cable in the event of fire; inside of door a raise shall be run to connect with surface, thus affording a means of exit in case of fire. be of iron or Section 29. It shall be unlawful to use in any mine, any Hoisting rope or cable for hoisting or lowering either men or material ropes must when such hoisting or lowering is done by any means other steel than human or animal power, unless such rope or cable shall Factor of safety established ulations regarding hoisting ropes be composed of iron or steel wires, with a factor of safety determined as hereinafter set forth; provided, that such iron or steel wires may be laid around a hemp center. The factor of safety of all ropes or cables shall in no case be less than five, and shall be calculated by dividing the breaking strength of the rope as given in the manufacturer's published tables, by the sum of the maximum load to be hoisted, plus the total weight of the rope in the shaft when fully let out, plus 10 per cent of such values, to take account of shock at starting and stopping. Section 30. It shall be unlawful to use any rope or cable Further reg for the raising or lowering of men, either when the number of breaks in any running foot of said rope exceeds 10 per cent of the total number of wires composing the rope, or when the wires on the crown of the strands are worn down to less than one-half their original diameter, or when it shows marked signs of corrosion. be regularly examined Section 31. All boilers used for generating steam in and Boilers must about mines shall be kept in good order and the owner, operator or superintendent shall have them examined and inspected by a qualified person as often as once in six months, and oftener if the inspector or his deputy shall deem it necessary. The result of such examination shall be certified in writing to the inspector within thirty (30) days thereafter. Hoisting prohibited during repairs Wages not paid in liquor houses tilation must be maintained Section 33. No hoisting shall be done in any compartment of a shaft while repairs are being made in that compartment, excepting such hoisting as is necessary in order to make such repairs. Section 34. for the sale of Section 35. Wages shall not be paid on any premises used intoxicating liquors. The operator of every mine, whether operated Proper ven- by shaft, stope or drift, shall provide and maintain for every such mine a good and sufficient amount of ventilation for such men and animals as may be employed therein and shall cause an adequate amount of pure air to circulate through and into all shafts, winzes, levels and all working places of such mine. Solitary employment regulated Engineer must be employed Riding on Section 36. That no man be allowed to work in a stope at such a distance from another that his cries, in case of need. cannot be heard. Section 37. That at all times when men are in a mine, worked through a shaft, equipped with hoisting machinery, an engineer shall be kept on duty to answer signals. Section 38. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride cable or bail upon the bail or cable of a hoisting bucket, cage or skip. unlawful Notice of maximum number on Section 39. Notice of the maximum number of men permitted to ride upon or in the cage, skip or bucket, at one time, shall be posted at the collar of the shaft and each level. All men or employees riding upon or in an overloaded cage, Overloading skip or bucket as provided in notice so posted, shall be guilty punished of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in a competent court. cage must be posted cage |