H. B. 2348
(By Delegates Caputo, Tucker,
Kuhn, Butcher and Boggs)
[Introduced February 20, 2001; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section sixteen, article two, chapter
twenty-two-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring the
superintendent or owner-operator of the mine to sign the fire
boss record book each day along with the mine foreman.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section sixteen, article two, chapter twenty-two-a of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. UNDERGROUND MINES.
§22A-2-16. Examinations of reports of fire bosses.
The mine foreman, and the superintendent or owner-operator of
the mine, shall, also each day, read carefully and countersign with ink or indelible pencil all reports entered in the record book of
the fire bosses. and he The mine foreman shall supervise the fire
boss or fire bosses, except as hereinafter provided in section
twenty-one of this article.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the
superintendent or owner-operator of the mine to sign the fire boss
record book each day along with the mine foreman.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.