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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0390\">390<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":364134,"section_number":"45.2-1400","catch_line":" Scope of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1400\/"},{"id":364140,"section_number":"45.2-1500","catch_line":" Scope of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1500\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":364134,"section_number":"45.2-1400","catch_line":" Scope of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1400\/"},{"id":364140,"section_number":"45.2-1500","catch_line":" Scope of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1500\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1451119,"object_type":"law","relational_id":364014,"identifier":"45.2-1100","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/11\/1\/45.2-1100","url":"\/45.2-1100\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1100\/","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/11\/1\/45.2-1100","dublin_core":{"Title":" Mineral Mine Safety Act","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1100","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>For purposes of this title, this chapter and Chapters 14 (\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\" Scope of chapter\" href=\"\/45.2-1400\/\">45.2-1400<\/a> et seq.) and 15 (\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\" Scope of chapter\" href=\"\/45.2-1500\/\">45.2-1500<\/a> et seq.) shall be known as the Mineral Mine Safety Act.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n MINERAL MINE SAFETY ACT (\u00a7 45.2-1100)\n\nFor purposes of this title, this chapter and Chapters 14 (\u00a7 45.2-1400 et seq.)\nand 15 (\u00a7 45.2-1500 et seq.) shall be known as the Mineral Mine Safety Act.\n\nHISTORY: 1997, c. 390, \u00a7 45.1-161.292:1; 2021, Sp. 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