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Rep. David Reis
Filed: 3/19/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3163
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3163 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Coal Mining Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 1.25 and by changing Sections 5.11, 6.10, and 6.11 as |
| 6 | | follows:
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| 7 | | (225 ILCS 705/1.25 new) |
| 8 | | Sec. 1.25. Recorder. "Recorder" means a person with a mine |
| 9 | | manager certification or mine examiner certification, trained |
| 10 | | and designated by the operator as the individual responsible |
| 11 | | for recording the mine examiner's examination of the |
| 12 | | underground workings of the mine.
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| 13 | | (225 ILCS 705/5.11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 511)
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| 14 | | Sec. 5.11.
To see that a mine examiner makes the |
| 15 | | examinations provided in
Articles 5, 6, and 31 of this Act, and |
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| 1 | | that he or she enters his or her report by calling it out to the |
| 2 | | surface to either a recorder or mine examiner to record the |
| 3 | | report in a book or computer system that is thereof
with |
| 4 | | indelible pencil or ink in a well-bound or properly protected |
| 5 | | loose
leaf book provided by the operator for that purpose, and |
| 6 | | the book or computer system shall be secure and not susceptible |
| 7 | | to alteration.
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| 8 | | (Source: Laws 1953, p. 701.)
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| 9 | | (225 ILCS 705/6.10) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 610)
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| 10 | | Sec. 6.10.
Upon completing his or her examination, he or |
| 11 | | she shall make a daily record of
the same either by calling out |
| 12 | | the results of the examination to a recorder or by personally |
| 13 | | recording the report. The recorder or mine examiner shall |
| 14 | | record the report in a book or computer system that is provided |
| 15 | | by the operator for that purpose, and the book or computer |
| 16 | | system shall be secure and not susceptible to alteration. The |
| 17 | | mine examination is in a book kept for that purpose, for the |
| 18 | | information of the
company, the State Mine Inspector and all |
| 19 | | other persons interested; and
this report shall be recorded |
| 20 | | before the miners are permitted to enter the mine. If the |
| 21 | | record is made by someone other than the examiner, then the |
| 22 | | examiner shall verify the record by initials and date record |
| 23 | | shall be made each morning before the miners are permitted to
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| 24 | | enter the mine.
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| 25 | | (Source: Laws 1953, p. 701.)
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| 1 | | (225 ILCS 705/6.11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 611)
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| 2 | | Sec. 6.11.
Should any dangerous conditions be found as |
| 3 | | described in Section
6.09, he or she shall call the conditions |
| 4 | | out to a recorder or shall personally record the report. The |
| 5 | | recorder or mine examiner shall record the report in a book or |
| 6 | | computer system that is provided by the operator for that |
| 7 | | purpose, and the book or computer system shall be secure and |
| 8 | | not susceptible to alteration. The recorder or mine examiner |
| 9 | | shall ensure that the report sets record the same in the daily |
| 10 | | record book of examinations,
setting forth the nature of the |
| 11 | | conditions found and the location of same. If the mine |
| 12 | | examiner, upon verifying the mine examiner book, notes an |
| 13 | | omission or error, he or she shall immediately notify the shift |
| 14 | | mine manager and make the necessary revisions to the pre-shift |
| 15 | | book.
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| 16 | | (Source: Laws 1955, p. 2012.)
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| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 18 | | becoming law.".
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