§ 45-429. Noon day meal - Hoisting apparatus.

All operators of said mines in this state, the work of which is located below the surface of the ground, entrance to which is had by any shaft, cut, or tunnel, shall allow the laborers and miners to come to the surface of the ground for the purpose of eating their noonday meal, or any other meal for which under the rules of any mine a time is designated and set apart; and such operator is hereby required to run his hoisting apparatus to the surface of the ground for the purpose of carrying any such miner or laborer, who may be going to or retuning from any such aforementioned meal, free of cost to any such miner or laborer.

Laws 1929, c. 42, p. 52, § 19.