=Permit must be obtained.=

Sec. 976-2.  A permit to do solid shooting may be issued by the industrial commission of Ohio in the case of any mine when application shall be made therefor by the owner, lessee or person engaged in the operation thereof and by a majority of the miners employed therein, and when such industrial commission shall be satisfied that such method of blasting is necessary for the just and reasonably profitable operation of such mine.  Such permit may be revoked at any time by said commission after sixty days’ notice in writing to such owner, lessee or person operating such mine.  Any person in interest who is dissatisfied with any order of said industrial commission made under the power conferred upon it by this section, may commence an action to set aside, vacate or amend such order in the same manner and for the same reason as other orders of such commission may be set aside, vacated or amended.

=Each section declared to be independent section.=

Sec. 976-3.  Each section of this act is hereby declared to be an independent section and the holding of any section to be void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other section thereof.

=Relating to fines collected, prosecutions, when act shall take effect, and repeals.=

Sec. 977. [=Fines collected.=] All fines collected by reason of prosecutions begun under the provisions of this act, shall be paid to the chief inspector of mines, and by him paid into the state treasury.

Sec. 978. [=Prosecutions; how controlled.=] Any prosecutions begun under the provisions of this act shall be controlled by sections thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-three and thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-two to thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine inclusive of the General Code.

=Regulation of weighing of coal.=

=Miner to be paid for all coal contained within car.=

Sec. 978-1.  Every miner and every loader of coal in any mine in this state who under the terms of his employment is to be paid for mining or loading such coal on the basis of the ton or other weight shall be paid for such mining or loading according to the total weight of all such coal contained within the car (hereinafter referred to as mine car) in which the same shall have been removed out of the mine unless otherwise agreed between employer and miner or loader.

=Department of Industrial Relations to determine percentage of impurity.=

Sec. 978-2.  Said industrial commission shall ascertain and determine the percentage of slate, sulphur, rock, dirt, or other impurity unavoidable in the proper mining or loading of the contents of mine cars or coal in the several operating mines within this state subject, however, to the right of the employer and miner or loader in any of such mines to make an agreement with reference thereto.