Okla. Stat. tit. 45, § 45-501
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Maps of mines
Official statutory text
The owner, agent, lessee or operator of every coal or other
mine, shall make, or cause to be made by a competent mining engineer
or surveyor, an accurate map or plan, of such mine, no smaller than
on a scale of two hundred (200) feet to an inch, which map shall
show as follows:
(a) All measurements of said mines in feet or decimal parts
thereof.
(b) All openings, excavations, shafts, tunnels, slopes, planes,
main entries, rooms, and other parts, in proper numerical order in
each opening or stratum of coal in said mine.
(c) The directions of the air currents, when practicable, by
darts, or arrows, marked thereon.
(d) An accurate delineation of the boundary lines between said
mine and all adjoining mines or coal lands where owned or operated
by the same operator or other operators, and the relation and
proximity of the workings of said mine to any other adjoining mine
or coal land.
(e) The bearings and lengths of each tunnel, or entry, or the
boundary of property lines.
The said map or plans, or a true copy thereof, shall be kept in
the general mine office by the said operator or superintendent for
the use only of the mine officials and mine inspectors, and for the
inspection of all persons working in said mines whenever said person
or persons shall have cause to fear that any working place is
becoming dangerous by reason of its proximity to other workings that
may contain water or dangerous gas.
mine, shall make, or cause to be made by a competent mining engineer
or surveyor, an accurate map or plan, of such mine, no smaller than
on a scale of two hundred (200) feet to an inch, which map shall
show as follows:
(a) All measurements of said mines in feet or decimal parts
thereof.
(b) All openings, excavations, shafts, tunnels, slopes, planes,
main entries, rooms, and other parts, in proper numerical order in
each opening or stratum of coal in said mine.
(c) The directions of the air currents, when practicable, by
darts, or arrows, marked thereon.
(d) An accurate delineation of the boundary lines between said
mine and all adjoining mines or coal lands where owned or operated
by the same operator or other operators, and the relation and
proximity of the workings of said mine to any other adjoining mine
or coal land.
(e) The bearings and lengths of each tunnel, or entry, or the
boundary of property lines.
The said map or plans, or a true copy thereof, shall be kept in
the general mine office by the said operator or superintendent for
the use only of the mine officials and mine inspectors, and for the
inspection of all persons working in said mines whenever said person
or persons shall have cause to fear that any working place is
becoming dangerous by reason of its proximity to other workings that
may contain water or dangerous gas.
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