45.1-161.178 - Allowing persons to work in a mine with smoker's articles; penalty.

§ 45.1-161.178. Allowing persons to work in a mine with smoker's articles;penalty.

A. No operator, agent, or mine foreman shall knowingly permit any person inan underground coal mine to smoke, carry or possess any smoker's articles ormaterials used for igniting smoker's articles.

B. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of aClass 6 felony.

(1993, c. 389, § 45.1-98.3; 1994, c. 28.)