Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 1 — United States Bureau of Mines
§ 5. Reports of investigations
Statutory text
The Director of the United States Bureau of Mines shall prepare and publish, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the appropriations made from time to time by Congress, reports of inquiries and investigations, with appropriate recommendations of the bureau, concerning the nature, causes, and prevention of accidents, and the improvement of conditions, methods, and equipment, with special reference to health, safety, and prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; the use of explosives and electricity, safety methods and appliances, and rescue and first-aid work in said industries; the causes and prevention of mine fires; and other subjects included under the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 61–240 § 3 · 36 Stat. 369
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 5
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 3, 36 Stat. 370
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 3, 36 Stat. 370Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall provide the said bureau with furnished offices in the city of Washington, with such books, records, stationery, and appliances, and such assistants, clerks, stenographers, typewriters, and other employees as may be necessary for the proper discharge of the duties imposed by this Act upon such bureau, fixing the compensation of such clerks and employees within appropriations made for that purpose.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted in text for “Bureau of Mines” pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102–285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. For provisions relating to closure and transfer of functions of the United States Bureau of Mines, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 1 of this title.
Credits
1910–1992 · 5 acts
- 1910May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 3, 36 Stat. 370
- 1913Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 3, 37 Stat. 681
- 1925Ex. Ord. No. 4239,
- 1934Ex. Ord. No. 6611,
- 1992Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.
Show as published
(May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 3, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 3, 37 Stat. 681; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, ; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.)