Sec. 976-1. Whoever being engaged in the operation of a coal mine causes or permits any solid shooting to be done therein without having first obtained a permit to do so from the industrial commission of Ohio shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Permit must be obtained.
Sec. 976-2. A permit to do solid shooting may be issued by the industrial commission of Ohio in the case of any mine when application shall be made therefor by the owner, lessee or person engaged in the operation thereof and by a majority of the miners employed therein, and when such industrial commission shall be satisfied that such method of blasting is necessary for the just and reasonably profitable operation of such mine. Such permit may be revoked at any time by said commission after sixty days' notice in writing to such owner, lessee or person operating such mine. Any person in interest who is dissatisfied with any order of said industrial commission made under the power conferred upon it by this section, may commence an action to set aside, vacate or amend such order in the same manner and for the same reason as other orders of such commission may be set aside, vacated or amended.
Each section declared to be independent section.
Sec. 976-3. Each section of this act is hereby declared to be an independent section and the holding of any section to be void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other section thereof.
[RELATING TO FINES COLLECTED, PROSECUTIONS, WHEN ACT SHALL TAKE EFFECT, AND REPEALS.]
Sec. 977. [Fines collected.] All fines collected by reason of prosecutions begun under the provisions of this act, shall be paid to the chief inspector of mines, and by him paid into the state treasury.
Sec. 978. [Prosecutions; how controlled.] Any prosecutions begun under the provisions of this act shall be controlled by [sections thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-three] and [thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-two] to [thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine] inclusive of the General Code.