Illinois Compiled Statutes 525 Conservation: Article -

• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act". (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 2
  All areas within the State except those that are expressly designated by law for preservation and protection in their natural condition are liable to...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in Sections 3.01 through 3.16 have the meanings ascribed to them in those Sections. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.01
  "Abandoned cemetery" means a cemetery (a) in which no interments have been made and no parts of which have been conveyed or transferred (other...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.02
  "Buffer area" means an area of land, any estate, interest or right in which has been dedicated or registered under this Act as a...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.03
  "Cemetery" means a parcel of land devoted to, or at least a part of which has been used for, the interment of human remains....
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.04
  "Cemetery authority" means a legally authorized owner, operator, manager or other person in control of a cemetery and actively attending to its care and...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.05
  "Commission" means the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission created under this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.06
  "Dedicate" means to set aside land in perpetuity as a nature preserve or as a buffer area as provided in this Act for the...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.07
  "Department" means the Department of Natural Resources. (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.08
  "Director" means the Director of the Department, who may be represented by his designated agents. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.09
  "Land" means real property and ownership rights applying thereto and includes water and the land thereunder, structures and improvements. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.10
  "Natural area" means an area of land in public or private ownership which, in the opinion of the Commission, either retains or has recovered...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.11
  "Nature preserve" means a natural area, and land necessary for its protection, any estate, interest or right in which has been dedicated under this...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.12
  "Plan" means a master plan, developed and approved in accordance with the rules, for the preservation, protection, development, management and use of a nature...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.13
  "Register" means the official list of registered areas or to place an area on such list. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.14
  "Registered area" means a natural area or a buffer area registered by the Department under this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.15
  "Rules" means rules adopted by the Commission in conjunction with the Department under this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 3.16
  "System" means the State system of nature preserves established under this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 4
  The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission is created. The Commission succeeds and continues the Commission created by "An Act relating to the creation of the...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 5
  The Director, the Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Director of the Illinois State Museum, or their representatives, and representatives of...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6
  To effectuate the purposes of this Act, the Commission has the powers and duties enumerated in Sections 6.01 through 6.09 and elsewhere in this...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.01
  To compile and maintain inventories, registers and records of nature preserves, other natural areas and features, and species of plants and animals and their habitats...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.02
  To seek and approve the dedication of nature preserves as part of the system. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.03
  To prepare, or guide and participate in the preparation of, master plans for nature preserves, to keep watch over the protection, management and use...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.04
  To conduct investigations and to disseminate information and recommendations pertaining to nature preserves; other natural areas; and habitats of endangered, threatened or rare species...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.05
  To promote by advice and other assistance the protection of natural areas in the State which are not dedicated as nature preserves. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.06
  To submit to the Governor, and to publish, before May 1 of each odd-numbered year a report which shall account for the condition of...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.07
  To formulate and adopt policies for (a) development and maintenance of the nature preserves system; (b) selection, acquisition, management, protection and use of dedicated...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.08
  To adopt rules in accordance with the "Illinois Administrative Procedure Act", for (a) development and maintenance of the nature preserves system; (b) selection, acquisition,...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 6.09
  To accept and administer, with the approval of the Director, gifts, grants and legacies of money, securities or other property to be used by...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7
  To effectuate the purposes of this Act, the Department has the powers and duties enumerated in sections 7.01 through 7.06 and elsewhere in this...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.01
  To dedicate land held by the Department as nature preserves as provided in this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.02
  To cooperate with the Commission in matters relating to the purposes of this Act, and, at its discretion, to provide to the Commission upon...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.03
  To review and approve in writing rules promulgated by the Commission. (Source: P.A. 83-1072.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.04
  To enforce rules pertaining to public use of and activities on nature preserves and buffer areas. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.05
  To acquire by gift, legacy, purchase, transfer, grant, agreement, dedication, or condemnation under the Eminent Domain Act, as amended, or other method, the fee simple...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.05a
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 7.06
  To register natural areas and buffer areas. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 8
  There shall be a master plan for each nature preserve or registered area. The manner of preparation, review and adoption of the plan shall...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 9
  A State system of nature preserves is established. The system consists of nature preserves dedicated as provided in this Act. A natural area which...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 10
  An area may be dedicated as a buffer area in the same manner as provided in this Act for the dedication of a nature...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 11
  Any part or all of a cemetery that is suitable for dedication may be dedicated, as provided in this Act, by the owner or...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 12
  If all or part of an abandoned cemetery is suitable for dedication, the county board for the county in which it is situated may...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 13
  An owner of a nature preserve retains custody, administration and management thereof, or may assign, lease or convey an interest or ownership therein, or...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 14
  Nature preserves are held in trust, for those uses and purposes expressed in this Act which are not prohibited by their instruments of dedication,...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 15
  Any public agency or instrumentality of the State and its political subdivisions has the power, and is urged, to dedicate suitable areas or portions...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 16
  A register of areas is established. The register consists of areas registered by the Department under this Act with the approval of the Commission...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 17
  All public agencies shall recognize that the protection of nature preserves, buffer areas and registered areas is the public policy of the State and...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 18
  No public agency shall designate an area as a nature preserve unless it is dedicated as a nature preserve under this Act or unless...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 19
  The dedication or registration of an area or any other action taken under this Act shall not void or replace any protective status under...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 20
  This Act does not provide public access to land without agreement of the owner thereof. (Source: P.A. 82-445.)
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 21
  The Attorney General, or the State's Attorney of the county where a nature preserve or registered area is located, may, upon his own motion...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 22
  Any person who violates this Act or any rule, or causes such violation by his employee or agent, shall be liable for a civil...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 23
  Any person who, directly or through an employee or agent, (a) willfully kills, injures, disturbs or removes any animal or plant or willfully damages,...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 24
  Conservation Police Officers, other employees designated by the Director, sheriffs and other police officers shall enforce this Act and the rules promulgated thereunder and...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 25
  All final administrative decisions under this Act are subject to judicial review under the "Administrative Review Law", as now or hereafter amended, and the...
• Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. - 525 ILCS 30, Section 26
  All actions heretofore effected and all areas dedicated under Sections 1a, 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d of "An Act in relation to the acquisition,...

Last modified: February 18, 2015