73.6 - IOWA COAL.
73.6 IOWA COAL.
It shall be unlawful for any commission, board, county officer or
other governing body of the state, or of any county, township, school
district or city, to purchase or use any coal, except that mined or
produced within the state by producers who are, at the time such coal
is purchased and produced, complying with all the workers'
compensation and mining laws of the state. The provisions of this
section shall not be applicable if coal produced within the state
cannot be procured of a quantity or quality reasonably suited to the
needs of such purchaser, nor if the equipment now installed is not
reasonably adapted to the use of coal produced within the state, nor
if the use of coal produced within the state would materially lessen
the efficiency or increase the cost of operating such purchaser's
heating or power plant, nor to mines employing miners not now under
the provisions of the workers' compensation Act or who permit the
miners to work in individual units in their own rooms. Section History: Early Form
[C39, § 1171.06; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
81, § 73.6]
Referred to in § 73.9, 73.10