Any person or persons who willfully refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-five of the General Code, or enters a mine generating fire damp before it is reported by the fire boss that it is safe for persons to enter, or goes beyond a danger signal indicating an accumulation of fire damp, as forbidden by the provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-nine of the General Code, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
=Employes of mines.=
Any person, or persons, who violates the provisions of sections nine hundred and fifty-six, nine hundred and fifty-seven, nine hundred and fifty-eight, nine hundred and sixty, nine hundred and sixty-one, or nine hundred and sixty-two of the General Code, or violates the provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-nine of the General Code other than to enter a mine generating fire-damp before the fire boss reports it safe, or to go beyond a danger signal indicating an accumulation of fire-damp, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, or imprisoned not less than five days nor more than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
=Persons not employes, qualification of miners, check-weighman, check-measurer.=
Any person who willfully violates the provisions of sections nine hundred and sixty-four, nine hundred and sixty-five, nine hundred and sixty-six, nine hundred and sixty-seven, or nine hundred and seventy of the General Code, or violates the provisions of section nine hundred and fifty-nine of the General Code relating to loitering and intoxicants, at, in or around a mine, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, or imprisoned not less than five days nor more than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
=Drilling and operating oil and gas wells.=
Any person, firm or corporation who violates or willfully refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of section 973, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months, at the discretion of the court. In addition, if the material is pulled out of a well which was not plugged in accordance with the provisions of section 973, the person, firm or corporation causing such offense may be made to clean out such well and properly plug the same, or pay the entire reasonable cost of such work being done under orders of the industrial commission of Ohio, division of mines, within thirty days.