Alabama Administrative Code › Title 480 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter 480-3-3 - MINE SAFETY › Section 480-3-3-.29 - Maps

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) The operator of
			 every mine shall make or maintain or cause to be made or maintained by a
			 competent engineer or surveyor, a clear and accurate map or maps on a legible
			 scale, with sections if necessary, showing clearly all workings of such mine.
			 At least once in every calendar year or oftener, if necessary, the operator of
			 each mine shall cause to be shown clearly and accurately on the map or maps of
			 such mine, all the excavations made therein during the time elapsed since such
			 excavations were last shown on such map or maps, and all parts of said mine
			 that have been worked out or abandoned during said elapsed period of time shall
			 be clearly indicated on said map or maps, and all underground workings shall be
			 surveyed and mapped before they are allowed to become inaccessible.
(2) A print or copy of such map, certified by
			 the superintendent or operator, shall be filed in the office of the Department
			 annually. This map shall not be made available to any person other than the
			 Department, without the authorization of the owner of the property. Such maps
			 shall show the exact position of the mine in reference to the section lines or
			 sub-division of the section; the accurate position of any branches, creeks,
			 rivers, and railroads under which said mine workings extend; and the
			 approximate location of contiguous workings or adjacent mines. Such maps shall
			 show all shafts, slopes, tunnels, or other openings to the surface or to the
			 workings of a contiguous mine; the location of the fan and the direction of the
			 air currents, stoppings, undercasts or overcasts; the location of permanent
			 pumps, electrical sub-stations and transformers, hoisting engines, hoisting
			 planes, abandoned workings, fire walls and standing water; the approximate
			 boundary line of any surface outcrop of any seam. Such map shall also show by
			 elevation in feet and decimals thereof the rise and dip of seam from the
			 opening in either direction to the face of the workings. Said maps shall be
			 certified and signed by the engineer making the map.
(3) Before any mine, having underground
			 workings, is abandoned, the operator of such mine shall cause to be made by a
			 competent engineer or surveyor and file with the Department, a map on a legible
			 scale, showing all underground workings.
(4) An additional survey shall be made
			 between the regular survey periods, of the workings of any mines, the results
			 to be extended on the maps of the same and the copies thereof, whenever, in the
			 judgment of the Department, the safety of the workmen, the support of the
			 surface, and the conservation of the property or the safety of an adjoining
			 mine, require it.
(5) Subsequent to
			 the effective date of these rules, in no case shall the workings of any mine be
			 driven nearer than fifty (50') feet to the boundary line of the mineral rights
			 of the owner of said mine, except for the purpose of establishing an
			 underground communication between contiguous mines. By mutual consent of
			 adjacent property owners, this distance may be reduced, increased, or
			 eliminated entirely, and any operator working up to an abandoned mine may be
			 permitted to work up to his property line, if approved by the Department.
Author:
Marcus Davis, Workers' Compensation
				Examiner.
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										25-2-13(2).