59-11-104 - Payment of checkweigher. - Tennessee Statutes

59-11-104. Payment of checkweigher.

When miners of coal or other minerals in this state elect a checkweigher or measurer, as provided, the operators, company, or firm employing the miners shall, upon receiving notice in writing from the miners of the election of checkweigher, withhold from each miner an equal amount, agreed upon by the miners and checkweigher, and pay the same to the checkweigher at each regular payday.

[Acts 1899, ch. 338, § 1; Shan., § 341a1; Code 1932, § 5642; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 58-1604.]