HB579 Alabama 2010 Session

This bill revises extensively the state mining laws relating to safety provisions, inspections, and enforcement, to conform state law to federal mining safety laws and to update the language of the state law

Relating to the Alabama Coal Mine Safety Law of1975, Articles 1 through 17, Chapter 9, Title 22, Code ofAlabama 1975; to extensively amend Chapter 9 to modernize thestate law, conform the state law to federal mine safety laws,and to enhance mining safety, inspection, and enforcementprovisions; to amend Sections 25-9-7, 25-9-9, 25-9-20,25-9-22, 25-9-24, 25-9-40, 25-9-60, 25-9-61, 25-9-67, 25-9-80,25-9-81, 25-9-82, 25-9-83, 25-9-86, 25-9-88, 25-9-131,25-9-132, 25-9-133, 25-9-210, 25-9-216, 25-9-273, 25-9-276,25-9-277, 25-9-278, 25-9-279, 25-9-280, 25-9-282, 25-9-360, and 25-9-361, Code of Alabama 1975; to repeal Sections 25-9-87and 25-9-153, Code of Alabama 1975; to add new Sections25-9-31, 25-9-32, and 25-9-217 to the Code of Alabama 1975;and to add a new Article 18, Section 25-9-380 and a newArticle 19, Sections 25-9-400 to 25-9-407, inclusive, to theCode of Alabama 1975, relating to independent contractorregistering, mine safety technology, and communication andtracking.