=The Department of Industrial Relations.=


The act of the Eighty-fourth General Assembly, known as House Bill
two hundred forty-nine, found in 109 Ohio Laws at page 105, became
effective on July 1, 1921.

This law provides for the reorganization of the executive department
of the state government and is an administrative code centralizing
related executive functions and activities for better administrative
care and control.

All duties, rights, liabilities, authority and privileges relating
to MINES and MINING, formerly had and exercised under the law by THE
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, was, by the above mentioned law,
conferred upon and imposed in THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
to be administered by the Director of Industrial Relations.

This pamphlet contains all the provisions of the General Code of
Ohio directly relating to MINES and MINING, their operation, control
and management, put into convenient form for the information and
guidance of employers, employes and the general public, for whose
benefit and observance they have been enacted.

In any section of the law herein given where the phrase "Industrial
Commission" or "The Industrial Commission of Ohio," or "Chief
Inspector of Mines" is found, the phrase "The Department of
Industrial Relations" is to be read, because such department has, by
the law first above mentioned, been given the powers and duties
before had by such commission.