Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 1
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Surface-Mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 2
  Statement of policy. It is declared to be the policy of this State to provide for conservation and reclamation of lands affected by surface...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 3
  Definitions. Wherever used or referred to in this Act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Reclamation" means conditioning areas affected...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 4
  Necessity of permit. It shall be unlawful for any operator to engage in surface mining in an area where the overburden shall exceed 10...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 4.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99. Repealed by P.A. 91-938, eff. 1-11-01.)
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 5
  Application for permit; bond; fee; permit. (a) Application for a permit shall be made upon a form furnished by the Department, which form shall contain...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 6
  Duties of operator. Every operator to whom a permit is issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act may engage in surface mining upon...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 6.5
  Blasting operations; regulation. (a) Blasting operations at permitted and unpermitted sites operated by the aggregate mining industry shall be conducted only in accordance with...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 7
  Entry upon lands for inspection. The Department, or its accredited representatives, may enter upon the lands of the operator at all reasonable times for...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 8
  Bond of operator; amount; sufficiency of surety; violations; compliance. Any bond herein provided to be filed with the Department by the operator shall be...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 9
  Fees and forfeitures; deposit. All fees and penalties collected under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited into the Aggregate Operations Regulatory Fund....
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 10
  Administration. (a) In addition to the duties and powers of the Department prescribed by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, it shall have full power...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 11
  Bond forfeiture proceedings-Pre-requisites. The Attorney General, upon request of the Department, shall institute proceedings to have the bond of the operator forfeited for violation...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 12
  Rules. (a) The Department may adopt and promulgate reasonable rules respecting the administration of this Act, and in conformity therewith. (b) Rules adopted by...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 13
  Penalties- Injunction. Any person required by this Act to have a permit who engages in surface mining without previously securing a permit to do...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 13a
  Review by court. All final administrative decisions of the Department hereunder shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 14
  Transition provision. All permits, bonds, plans, duties and requirements pursuant to "The Open Cut Land Reclamation Act", approved August 10, 1961, as amended, and...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 15
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-1568. Repealed by P.A. 91-938, eff. 1-11-01.)
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 16
  Severability clause. If any Section, subdivision, clause, sentence or paragraph in this Act shall be held to be unconstitutional, the unconstitutionality thereof shall not...
• Illinois Surface-mined Land Conservation and Reclamation Act. - 225 ILCS 715, Section 17
  a. The Director and the Land Reclamation Division within the Department of Natural Resources shall have the power and duty to act as the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015