Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 1
Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section have the following meanings as used in this Act. "Person" means any natural...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 1a
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. (Source: P.A. 85-1334.)
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 1.1
Waste as defined by this Act is prohibited. (Source: Laws 1951, p. 1500.)
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 1.2
The Director shall appoint an Oil and Gas Board consisting of 7 members, 6 of whom shall be actively engaged in the oil and...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 2
The provisions of this Act do not apply to quarry drill or blast holes, nor to seismograph test holes. The provisions of this Act...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 3
The Department shall be charged with the duty of enforcing this Act and all rules, regulations and orders promulgated in pursuance of this Act....
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 4
The Department shall have jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property necessary to enforce effectively the provisions of this Act. In aid of...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 5
The Director shall have the authority to obtain all necessary personnel to carry out the provisions of this Act, to designate their headquarters and...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 6
The Department shall have the authority to conduct hearings and to make such reasonable rules as may be necessary from time to time in...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 6.1
When the applicant has complied with all applicable provisions of this Act and the rules of the Department, the Department shall issue the permit. All...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 7
The Department shall have the right at all times to go upon and inspect oil and gas properties from which oil or gas is...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 8
The Department shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to make such inquiries as it may think proper to determine whether...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 8a
When an inspector or other authorized employee or agent of the Department determines that any permittee, or any person engaged in conduct or activities...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 8b
No person shall drill, convert or deepen a well for the purpose of disposing of oil field brine or for using any enhanced recovery...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 8c
(a) No person shall operate a liquid oil field waste transportation system without a liquid oil field waste transportation permit. The liquid oil field...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 9
The Department shall adopt rules of procedure for hearings and other proceedings before it under this Act. The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 10
All final administrative decisions of the Department made on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1988 are subject to judicial...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 11
Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating or threatening to violate any provision of this Act, or any rule or final administrative...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 12
Any well for which a permit is required under this Act, other than a plugged well, which was drilled prior to the effective date...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 13
Where an application is made to drill or deepen an oil or gas well within the limits of any city, village or incorporated town,...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 14
Each application for permit to drill, deepen, convert, or amend shall be accompanied by the required fee, not to exceed $300, which the Department shall...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 15
Any permit to drill a well for oil or gas shall expire one year from the date of issuance unless acted upon prior thereto...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 16
Every owner or operator of any oil or gas well may appoint a person to act as his Attorney in fact to execute applications...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 17
In case any person drilling an oil or gas well shall request a location over a portion of the coal where mining operations have...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 18
In no event shall any high explosive be exploded in any well until twenty-four hours' notice of the intention has been given to the owner...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19
If when a well is sunk and there is no oil or gas found and such hole is what is commonly known as a...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.1
If, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the Department finds that a well drilled for the exploration, development, storage or production of...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.2
Supplemental remedy. Nothing in this Act shall relieve any person or persons otherwise legally responsible from any obligation to plug, replug or repair a...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.3
Liability for damages-Responsibility for future remedial work. Any person who enters upon the land on which the well is located to plug, replug or...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.4
No admission of liability or discharge of action. The fact that any person has initiated or supported a proceeding before the Department or has...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.5
Any person who had no obligation to plug, replug or repair the well or restore the site of any well, but who does so...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.6
The Department has the following specific powers and duties in administering the Oil and Gas Well Site Plugging and Restoration Program, Landowner Grant Program,...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.7
The Department shall assess and collect annual well fees from each permittee in the amount of $75 per well for the first 100 wells and...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.8
The purpose of the Plugging and Restoration Fund is to provide security in case the permittee fails to perform his duties under this Act....
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 19.9
(a) If the permittee is delinquent in the payment of the fees assessed under Section 19.7 of this Act or if amounts have been...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 20
No oil or gas well shall be drilled hereafter nearer than 250 feet to any opening to a working coal mine used as a...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 21.1
(a) The Department is authorized to issue permits for the drilling of wells and to regulate the spacing of wells for oil and gas purposes....
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 22.2
Integration of interests in drilling unit. (a) As used in this Section, "owner" means any person having an interest in the right to drill into...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.1
The owner or owners of any tract of land which is productive or capable of being productive of oil or gas or any owner...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.2
(a) When 2 or more separately owned tracts of land are embraced within a pool or a portion of a pool suitable for any...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.3
The Department, upon the petition of any interested person, shall hold a public hearing to consider the need for operating a pool, pools, or any...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.4
(1) Upon the receipt of a petition for unitization, the Department shall fix the time and place for a public hearing, which shall be...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.5
When a public hearing is held, the Department shall promptly issue an order providing for the unit operation of a pool or pools, or...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.6
If, after considering the petition and all evidence offered, the Director determines that the petitioner has failed to establish the several requirements for formation...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.7
The order for unitization shall recite the findings required by Section 23.5; and if the requirements of Section 23.5 are satisfied, then the order...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.8
No order of the Department providing for unit operations shall become effective unless and until the plan of unitization has been approved in writing...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.9
With respect to an interest in the oil and gas rights which is encumbered by a lien of record, both the person owning such...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.10
The obligation or liability of each working interest owner for the payment of unit expense shall at all times be several and not joint...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.11
The unit operator shall have a lien for all costs incurred pursuant to the plan of unitization upon the leasehold estate, exclusive of a...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.12
The unit area may be unitized or joined with adjoining portions of the same pool or pools, or portions thereof, including a unit area...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.13
The Department and the proper body, board or officer of any political, municipal or other subdivision or agency of the State are hereby authorized...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.14
Any guardian, executor of a last will, any trustee by court appointment, and the owners who may be operating leaseholds within the proposed unitized...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.15
(1) Property rights, leases, contracts and all other rights and obligations affecting oil and gas rights within the unit area shall be regarded as...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 23.16
From and after the effective date of the order of the Director creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable thereto, the...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 25
No power herein granted to prevent waste shall be interpreted or construed as authorizing limitation of production of any well, wells, lease, leases, pool,...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 26
(a) Any person who violates any provision of this Act or any valid rule, regulation, permit or order of the Department made hereunder, or...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 28
If any section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional, or void for any reason by any court of final...
- Illinois Oil and Gas Act. - 225 ILCS 725, Section 28.1
The transfer of rights, powers and duties from the Mining Board to the Department of Mines and Minerals by this amendatory Act of 1988...
Last modified: February 18, 2015