SECTION 460:15-1-8. Record books of fire-boss

  The record book of the fire-boss shall at all times be accessible to the inspector and to the employees during working hours. A suitable record book approved by the Department of Mines shall be kept at each mine, and immediately after each of the examinations of each mine made by the fire-boss or fire-bosses, a record of same shall be entered in said book, signed and dated by the fire-boss or fire-bosses making such examinations, which shall clearly state the nature and location of any danger which he or they may have discovered. The superintendent and mine foreman shall each day carefully countersign all reports made by the fire-boss or fire-bosses. A fire-boss may send his report over the mine telephone system to a certified person on the surface who shall fill out the record book and sign that he received the report of the aforementioned examinations, and this shall satisfy the requirements of this section.