For the purpose of making known the rules and provisions of this chapter to all persons employed in or about coal mines to which this law applies, an abstract of the law and rules shall be furnished by the department and posted up in legible character in some conspicuous place or places at or near the mines where they may be conveniently read by the persons employed and so often as they become obliterated or destroyed, the owner, operator, lessee, or superintendent shall cause them to be renewed with all reasonable dispatch. It is unlawful for any person to pull down, injure, or deface such abstract of the law or rules when put up in pursuance of the provisions of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 25-9-364 (1975)