Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 73. SAFETY IN COAL MINES

Part 2. Maps, Surveys, and Boundary Lines

Restrictions As To Boundary Lines

50-73-210. Restrictions as to boundary lines. In no case shall the workings of a coal mine be driven nearer than 50 feet to the boundary line of the coal rights pertaining to the mine, except for the purpose of establishing connecting workings between properties owned by the same person or an underground communication between contiguous mines as provided for elsewhere in rules adopted by the department.

History: En. 50-434.1 by Sec. 16, Ch. 267, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 50-434.1; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989.