2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 20 - EXECUTIVE BRANCH › 20 ILCS 1905/ - Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. (Department of Natural Resources (Mines and Minerals) Law) › Article 1905 - Department Of Natural Resources (Mines And Minerals)

(20 ILCS 1905/Art. 1905 heading)
ARTICLE 1905.  
		DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES (MINES AND MINERALS)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-1)
Sec. 1905-1. 
		Article short title. 
		This Article 1905 of the Civil
Administrative
Code of Illinois may be cited as the Department of Natural Resources (Mines and
Minerals) Law.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-5)
Sec. 1905-5. 
		Definition. 
		In this Law, "Department" means the Department of
Natural Resources.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-10) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-10. 
		Powers, generally. 
		The Department has the powers
described in Sections 1905-15, 1905-20, 1905-25, 1905-30, 1905-40, 1905-45,
1905-50, 1905-90,
1905-100, and 1905-200.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-12)
Sec. 1905-12. Use of Illinois resident labor. To the extent permitted by any applicable federal law or regulation, for all work performed for State construction projects which are funded in whole or in part by a capital infrastructure bill enacted by the 96th General Assembly by sums appropriated to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, at least 50% of the total labor hours must be performed by actual residents of the State of Illinois. For purposes of this Section, "actual residents of the State of Illinois" means persons domiciled in the State of Illinois. The Department of Labor shall promulgate rules providing for the enforcement of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-15) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-15. 
		Mine accidents. 
		The Department has the power to acquire and
diffuse information concerning the nature,
causes, and
prevention of mine accidents.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-20) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-20. 
		Mine methods, conditions, and equipment. 
		The Department has
the
power to acquire and diffuse information concerning the improvement
of
methods, conditions, and equipment of mines, with special reference to
health, safety, and conservation of mineral resources.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-25) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-25. 
		Economic conditions affecting mineral industries. 
		The
Department has the power to make inquiries into the economic
conditions affecting the mining,
quarrying, metallurgical, clay, oil, and other mineral industries.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-30) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-30. 
		Technical efficiency of persons working in mines. 
		The
Department
has the power to promote the technical efficiency of all persons
working in and
about the mines of the State and to assist them better to overcome the
increasing difficulties of mining, and for that purpose to provide
bulletins, traveling libraries, lectures, correspondence work, classes for
systematic instruction, or meetings for the reading and discussion of
papers, and to that end to cooperate with the University of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-35) (was 20 ILCS 1905/47)
Sec. 1905-35. 
		Coal quality testing program. 
		The Department's analytical
laboratory is authorized to
test the quality of coal delivered under State coal purchase contracts.  The
Department shall establish, by rule, the fee charged to defray the costs of
this coal quality testing program.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-40) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-40. 
		Use of coal combustion by-products. 
		The Department has the
power to foster the utilization of coal combustion by-products for
the
benefaction of soils in the reclamation of previously surface-mined areas and
in the stabilization of final cuts, in the stabilization of underground
mined-out areas to mitigate subsidence of surface lands, and in the reduction
of acid mine drainage.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-45) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-45. 
		Violations of Act concerning use of Illinois coal. 
		The
Department has the power to investigate violations of "An Act
concerning the use of Illinois
mined coal in certain plants and institutions", filed July 13, 1937
(repealed), and
to institute proceedings for the prosecution of violators of that Act in
circuit
courts.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-50) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-50. 
		Violations of Coal Mining Act.
(a) The Department has the power to investigate violations of the Coal
Mining Act and regulations
issued pursuant to that
Act; to institute criminal proceedings for prosecution of such a
violation; and to institute civil actions for relief, including
applications for temporary restraining orders and preliminary and
permanent injunctions, or any other appropriate action to enforce any
order, notice, or decision of the Director, the Mining Board, the
Department, or the Director of the Office of
Mines and Minerals.
(b)  The Department has the power to call or subpoena witnesses,
documents, or other evidence for the
purpose of conducting hearings pursuant to the Coal Mining Act and
to administer  oaths and compensate witnesses pursuant to that Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-75) (was 20 ILCS 1905/46)
Sec. 1905-75. 
		
		Permits for diesel powered equipment or explosives in
underground coal mines. During the period commencing with the
effective date of this
amendatory Act and ending January 1, 1986, the Department
shall not issue any new permits allowing the use of diesel powered equipment
or explosives while persons are working in any underground coal mine, except
that mines presently using such diesel equipment or explosives shall not
be prohibited from continuing that use.  Nothing in this Section
shall be
interpreted or construed so as to prohibit the use of compressed air as
an explosive in any underground coal mine.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-90) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-90. 
		State Mining Board. 
		Any statute that by its
terms is to be administered by the State Mining
Board shall be administered by the Board without any direction,
supervision, or
control by the Director of Natural Resources or the Director of
the Office of Mines and Minerals, except that which the Director of the
Office may exercise by virtue of being a member of the Board
and except as may be provided in the statute.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-100) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-100. 
		Public inspection of records. 
		The Department has the power to
make all records of the Department open for inspection by
interested persons and the public.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-105) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45.2)
Sec. 1905-105. 
		
		Proof of records in legal proceedings; fee for
certification. The papers, entries, and records of the
Department or parts thereof may be proved in any legal
proceeding by a
copy thereof certified under the signature of the keeper thereof in the
name of the Department with a seal of the Department attached.  A fee of
$1.00 shall be paid to the Department for the
certification.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-110) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45.1)
Sec. 1905-110. Verified documents; penalty for fraud. Applications and other documents filed for the purpose of
obtaining permits, certificates, or other licenses under Acts administered
by the Department shall
be verified or contain
written affirmation that they are signed under the penalties of perjury.  A
person who knowingly signs a fraudulent document commits perjury as defined
in Section 32-2 of the Criminal Code of 2012 and for the purpose of this
Section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-150) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-150. Criminal history record information. Whenever the
Department
is authorized or
required by law to consider some aspect of criminal history record
information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory powers and
responsibilities, then upon request and payment of fees in conformance with
the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the
Illinois State Police Law, the Illinois State Police is
authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive identification, the
information contained in State files that is necessary to fulfill
the request.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 1905/1905-200) (was 20 ILCS 1905/45 in part)
Sec. 1905-200. 
		
		Transfer of realty to other State agency; acquisition of
federal lands. The Department has the power to transfer jurisdiction
of any realty under the control of the
Department to any other department of the State government, or to acquire
or accept federal lands, when the transfer, acquisition, or
acceptance is
advantageous to the State and is approved in writing by the Governor.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)