(1) The department shall not admit any applicant for certification as a mine inspector, mine safety analyst, electrical inspector, mine safety instructor, mine foreman, or assistant mine foreman to take an examination given by it unless the applicant has the experience required by this chapter, and has submitted proof that he or she is drug and alcohol free in accordance with KRS § 351.182 and KRS § 351.183, and has presented to the examiner at the time of registration for the examination a United States postal money order or certified check in the amount of fifty dollars ($50). All money orders or certified checks required herein shall be made payable to the State Treasurer, Frankfort, Kentucky.
(2) All money paid to the State Treasurer for licenses and fees required by this chapter shall be for the sole use of the department and shall be in addition to any moneys appropriated by the General Assembly for the use of the department.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 351.110

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Assistant mine foreman: means a certified person designated to assist the mine foreman in the supervision of a portion or the whole of a mine or of the persons employed therein. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Commission: means the Mine Safety Review Commission created by KRS
    351. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Department: means the Department for Natural Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Mine: means any open pit or any underground workings from which coal is produced for sale, exchange, or commercial use, and all shafts, slopes, drifts, or inclines leading thereto, and includes all buildings and equipment, above or below the surface of the ground, used in connection with the workings. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • Mine foreman: means a certified person whom the licensee or superintendent places in charge of the workings of the mine and of the persons employed therein. See Kentucky Statutes 351.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(3) The department may refuse to examine any applicant who cannot readily understand the written English language or cannot express himself intelligently in English, or who is obviously intoxicated.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 37, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 241, sec. 14, effective July 12, 2006. — Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 11, effective April 9, 1996. — Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 301, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978. — Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch.
8, sec. 10. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 298, sec. 8– Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 8, effective March 5, 1952. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739-45.
Legislative Research Commission Note (4/9/96). The action taken with respect to this statute by 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 308 was to have become effective April 8,
1996, under Section 51 of that Act. The Act, however, did not become effective until April 9, 1996, when the Governor’s signed copy of the Act was filed with the Secretary of State.