Chapter VII: Section 5: This act is hereby declared to be an emergency law

necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. The reasons for such necessity lie in facts, which two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the general assembly have considered, found and determined and which are separately set forth herein, as follows:

The eighty-third general assembly created a joint legislative committee to "investigate all of the * * * offices which have been created by the general assembly * * * with a view of * * * combining and centralizing the duties of the various departments, eliminating such as are useless and securing for the state of Ohio such a reorganization of its governmental activities as will promote greater efficiency and greater economy therein." Said committee made exhaustive investigations and published numerous reports, declaring the necessity of reorganizing fundamentally the executive branch of the state government in order to promote efficiency and conserve the public funds. Upon the organization of the eighty-fourth general assembly, special committees were appointed in each house thereof to consider the recommendations of the former joint committee. The governor, in his message to the general assembly, recommended action along the general lines indicated by the former committee's report. Wide publicity has been given to various projected plans of reorganization.

According to the annual reports of the auditor of state, the balances subject to draft in the general revenue fund of the state, from which many of the activities of the state government are supported, had shrunk from more than two million dollars on June 30th, 1919, to less than one million dollars on June 30th, 1920, (all of which, and more, was covered by unlapsed appropriations for the preceding fiscal year), clearly indicating the immediate necessity either for increasing the revenues of the state, or for effecting such a reorganization of the state administration as would tend to conserve the present revenues. General economic conditions make increased taxes highly undesirable at the present time.

At the convening of the eighty-fourth general assembly numerous vacancies existed in various state offices and in various state boards, and other like vacancies have occurred since that time. By reason of the known probability of a reorganization such as is embodied in this act, persons appointed to fill such vacancies have uncertain tenure and are thereby deterred from initiating and carrying through definite administrative policies; and in several instances such appointments have been accepted temporarily only, pending early reorganization.

As a result of all the foregoing, the state service in the appointive state departments, shown by said investigations to be wasteful and inefficient, is becoming increasingly demoralized. All of these departments exercise functions pertaining to the protection of the public health, the conservation of the public peace and morals, or the promotion of the public safety. The necessity of placing their functions upon a sound, economical, permanent and secure basis is great and immediate.

The appropriations for the current expenses of the state government and institutions which must be made by the eighty-fourth general assembly for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1st, 1921, cannot be effectually apportioned nor their amounts fixed unless the reorganization effected by this act is operative during the period to be covered by such appropriations, so that the departments and offices of the state government are definitely determined; and such determination must be made and the framework of the executive branch of the state government must be definitely established and known at the time the general assembly is considering such appropriations.

Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.

Passed April 19, 1921.

Approved April 26, 1921.

RUPERT BEETHAM,
_Speaker of the House of Representatives_.

CLARENCE J. BROWN,
_President of the Senate_.

HARRY L. DAVIS, _Governor_.

Filed in office of Secretary of State, April 26, 1921.

(109 O.L., 105.)

=INDEX.=

INDEX SECTIONS.

=A.=

Abandoned mines--precautions when
approaching 938

Accidents--
fatal--duty of inspectors 907
fatal--notice to chief inspector and
coroner 940
fatal--coroner's duty 921
superintendent's duty 951
provisions for persons injured 934
action in case of 972

Access to mines by inspectors 912

Acetylene gas in mines 974-1

Penalty of 974-3

Action for non-compliance with Statutes 916

Act shall not create new office, etc. 920

Additional openings 950

Airway obstruction 960

Alternating current 948

Annual report of owner, lessee or agent
to chief inspector 940

Appliances--Safe 927-928

Appointments--
chief inspector and qualifications 899
district inspectors and qualifications 900-901

Appropriation of land 968

Assistant mine-foreman--
duties of 952, 953, 959
penalty for non-compliance 976

Attendant--Rescue car 915

Automatic doors 923, 943, 958

=B.=

Blasting 956

Blasting powder 962-963

Boilers--location of 944

Bonds--
weighmaster 966

Board of examiners 919

Breakthroughs 926

Brattices 926

=C.=

Cages--
Safe appliances 927
protection of, etc. 928
lowering and hoisting, No. persons,
etc. 929, 959

Caution board 959

Checkweighmen--
duties of 970
penalty for non-compliance 976

Check-measurer--
duties of 970
penalty for non-compliance 976

Child labor 13001, 13002,
13007-1-2, 7766

Circuit breakers 947

Closing of doors 923, 943, 958

Committee of miners--
Report of 906-967

Code of signals 942

Conveying of explosives 962

Construction of new mines 949

Copper tools 963

Coroner--
duties of 921
penalty for non-compliance 976

Coal dust--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 944
duty of miner 956

Combustible matter--removal of 944, 956

Complaint against chief and district
inspectors 918-919

Crossing public highway 971

Controversy or disagreement between
district inspector and owner, lessee or
agent 910

=D.=

Damages caused by examination 969

Dangerous places fenced--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 925
duty of superintendent and mine-foreman 952
duty of miner 956

Danger signal 925, 959

Defraud--intent to 960

Department of Industrial Relations 154-1

Detaching locomotive--traveling ways 932

Disagreement between district inspector
and owner, lessee or agent 910

District inspectors--
duties of 909

District inspectors as sealers of weights
and measures 910

Discretionary power of mining department 911

Doors 923, 943, 958

Drivers 958

Dust and fine coal--
duties of owner, lessee or agent 944
duty of miner 956

Duties of assistant mine-foreman 952, 953, 959

Duties of chief and district inspectors 906, 915

Duties of chief and oil and gas well
inspector relating to oil and gas wells 914

Duties of coroner 921

Duties of check-weighman 970

Duties of check-measurer 970

Duties of employes 956

Duties of fire-boss 925, 955, 959

Duties of machine-men 957

Duties of miners 956

Duties of mine-foreman 952, 953, 959

Duties of over-seer 954, 965

Duties of recorder 921-937

Duties of superintendent 951

Duties of stableman 955

Duties of trip-riders and motormen 943, 958, 961

Duties of weighmaster 966
(For penalties, see Section 976.)

=E.=

Egress when inundation is probable 932

Electricity--
application of 947-948
discretionary power of chief and
district inspectors 911

Emergency appliances 927

Engineers 927

Employes--duties of 956-963

Employment of minors 944

Examination of mine--damages caused by 969

Examination and survey of mine 969

Examination of working places--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 925
duty of mine-foreman 952
duty of fire-boss 955
duty of miner 956
when unsafe 953

Examination of other than working places 925

Examination of machinery, ventilating
current 967

Examination of mine by fire-boss 925, 955, 959

Examination of mine--right of employes 906, 967

Examiners--board of 918-919

Explosives 962-963

=F.=

Fatal accidents--
duty of inspectors 907
notice to chief inspector and coroner 940
coroner's duty 921
superintendent's duty 951
provisions for 934
action in case of 972

Fire-boss--duties of 925, 955, 959

Fire in stable--must not be taken into 960

Fire protection 930

Fine coal or coal dust--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 944
duty of miner 956

Fines collected 977

=G.=

Gauges--pressure 924

Gasoline in mines 946

=H.=

Haulage--rope 943, 958

Haulage trips--persons not permitted to
ride 961

Hoisting and lowering of persons 927, 929, 959

=I.=

Illuminating oil 974-975

Illuminants 974-2

Industrial Relations Department 154-1

Injured persons--provisions for 934

Inundation 932, 938

Inexperienced miners 965

Injuries to mine 960

Intoxicants--prohibition of 959

Intent to defraud 960

Injury to persons or property--right of
action 972

=J.=

Justices of peace, etc. 13432

=L.=

Lamps--size of 961

Land--appropriation of 968

Lien on property for labor 972

Light in mines 943

Light or signal on locomotive and train 943

Loitering 959

Lowering and hoisting of persons 929, 950

Locomotives in mines 943, 958

Locomotives in mines--detaching 932

=M.=

Maps--
duty of chief inspector 917
duty of owner, lessee or agent 935
addition to previous 936
abandoned mine map 937
persons entitled to examine 904

Machine men--duties of 957

Machine shields--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 941
duty of machine men 957

Machinery--examination of 967

Miners--duties of 956

Mine-foreman--duties of 952, 953, 959

Miner--qualifications of 965

Miner--inexperienced 965

Minors employed 13001, 13002,
13007-1-2, 7766
duty of inspectors 912
duty of owner, lessee or agent 944
duty of mine-foreman 953

Mines, new--construction of 949

Mine lamps 961

Mine committee report 906, 967

Motormen and trip riders--duties of 943, 958, 961

Monthly report of mine-foreman to chief
inspector 953

=N.=

New mines--construction of 949

New office--shall not create 920

Notice to chief inspector--when must be
given 939

Notice to chief inspector and coroner of
accidents 940

Non-compliance with Statutes--action for 916

=O.=

Office--shall not create new 920

Office--chief deputy 904

Oil--
illuminating 974, 975
quantity allowed in mine 944

Oil lamp--size of 961

Oil and gas wells 973

Oil and gas wells--duty of chief oil and
gas well inspector 914

Openings--
additional 950
second 930

Over-seer--duties of 954, 965

=P.=

Penalties--
Acetylene 974-3
County coroner 976
Check-weighman 976
Check-Measurer 976
Employes 976
Fire-boss 976
Foreman 976
Mine-foreman 976
Non-employes 976
Owner, lessee or agent 976
Over-seer 976
Oil and gas well companies 976
Oil manufacturers 976
Oil dealers 976
Oil (persons using illegal) 976
Superintendent 976
Stableman 976
Weighmaster 976

Persons injured--provision for 934

Persons on cage--number allowed 929, 959

Persons not permitted to ride haulage
trips 961

Persons not employes--relating to 964

Powder 962-963

Pressure gauges 924

Precautions approaching abandoned mines 938

Props--supplying of 953

Prosecutions 978

=Q.=

Quantity of hay allowed in mine 945

Quantity of oil allowed in mine 944

Quantity of gasoline allowed in mine 946

Quantity of powder allowed in mine 962

Qualifications of miner 965

Qualifications and appointment of chief
inspector 899

Qualifications and appointment of
district inspectors 901

=R.=

Recorder's duty 921, 937

Records--who entitled to examine 904

Regulations of weighing coal 978-1-7

Repeals 978

Report of fire-boss 925, 955, 959

Report of owner, lessee or agent to
chief inspector 939, 940

Report of district inspector to chief
inspector 913

Right of action 972

Reorganization of State Departments 154-1

Report of mine committee 906, 967

Report of mine-foreman to chief
inspector, monthly 953

Rescue apparatus 915

Rescue stations 915-1

Refuge holes 931

Rope haulage 943, 958

Roof--miner shall prop, etc. 956

=S.=

Safe appliances for hoisting persons 927

Safety appliances 928

Speaking tube 928

Safety lamps--
when owner shall provide 941
oil for use in 975

Scales 910, 941

Second opening 930

Shafts--fire protection 930

Shields--machine--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 941
duty of machine men 957

Signals--
code of 942
locomotive 943
danger 925, 955, 959
persons designated to give and receive 929

Solid shooting 976-1-3

Speaking tube 928

Squibs 963

Stables--underground--
construction of 945
fire must not be taken into 960
stablemen--duties of 955

Superintendent's duties 951

Surveying party--transportation of 969

Survey of mine and examination 969

Switches 947

=T.=

Tamping tools--kind permitted 963

Telephones 934-2

Test weights 941

Timber--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 933
duty of mine-foreman 953
duty of miners 956

Trip riders and motormen--duties of 943, 958, 961

Traveling ways and refuge holes 931

Traveling ways--duty of employes 959

Transportation of surveying party 969

Trolley wires 947

=U.=

Underground stables--
construction of 945
fire must not be taken into 960
stablemen--duties of 955
voltage 948

=V.=

Ventilation--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 922, 923, 924
duty of mine-foreman 952, 953
report of mine committee 906, 967
voltage 948

=W.=

Wash room 934-1

Weigh scales 910, 941

Weighing of coal 978-1-7

Weighmaster--duties of 966

Weights and measures--sealers of 910

Withdrawal of persons from mine 959

When act takes effect 978

Who entitled to examine maps, records,
etc. 904

Wires 947

Working places--examination of--
duty of owner, lessee or agent 925
duty of mine-foreman 952
duty of fire-boss 955
duty of miner 956