A person who applies for a certificate as a foreperson of surface maintenance facilities at underground or surface mines shall be able to read and write the English language and shall have had at least three years’ actual practical experience in or around the surface maintenance facilities of underground or surface mines or the equivalent thereof in the judgment of the chief of the division of mineral resources management. Each applicant for examination shall pay a fee of ten dollars to the chief on the first day of the examination. Any money collected under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the mining regulation and safety fund created in section 1513.30 of the Revised Code.