50-73-306. Operator to give notice of happening of certain occurrences. Immediate notice must be conveyed to the department by the operator interested:
     (1) when an accident occurs whereby a person receives serious or fatal injury;
     (2) when work is commenced to sink a shaft, slope, or drift either for hoisting or escape purposes;
     (3) when there is intent to abandon a mine or to reopen an abandoned mine;
     (4) upon the appearance of a large body of firedamp in a mine, whether accompanied by explosion or not, and upon the occurrence of a serious fire within the mine or on the surface around the mine;
     (5) when the workings of a mine are approaching near an abandoned mine believed to contain accumulation of water or gas; or
     (6) upon the accidental closing or intended abandonment of a regularly established passageway to an escape outlet.

     History: En. 50-477 by Sec. 20, Ch. 267, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 50-477(part); amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989.