Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 General Provisions: Article -

• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 1
  Whenever used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, words and terms shall have the meaning attributed to them herein: (1) "Commence to...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 2
  State issuance of extraction permits; prohibited activities. The Department of Natural Resources shall be empowered with respect to public lands to grant permits and...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 3
  The Department is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in writing designating any person as the permittee of the State of Illinois with the...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 4
  No permits shall be issued upon public lands classified by the Department as proven territory. (Source: Laws 1951, p. 1167.)
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 5
  No permittee shall commence any operation upon lands covered by his permit until he has compensated the owners of private rights therein according to...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 6
  Permits shall require the immediate commencement of geological, geophysical or core drilling operation thereunder. All operations shall be prosecuted with reasonable diligence in accordance...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 7
  Every permittee shall have the option of surrendering his permit at any time and shall be relieved of all liability thereunder except for physical...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 8
  A permittee, at any time during the life of the permit or upon the termination thereof, shall be entitled to a lease for the...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 9
  All petroleum leases other than those provided for in Section 8 of this Act may be granted in parcels as determined by the Department,...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 10
  Proceeds. Except as hereinafter provided, the proceeds derived and bonuses, rentals and royalties from and other inducements and considerations for the execution and operation...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 11
  Petroleum leases shall not be issued on lands which have not been classified by the Department as proven territory. As to any proven territory...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 12
  The Department is hereby authorized to cancel any permit or lease issued as provided herein for nonpayment of royalties or nonperformance by the permittee...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 13
  Upon the expiration or forfeiture of any permit no new permit covering the lands, or any of them, embraced by such expired or forfeited...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 14
  Whenever the Department shall find it is in the best interest of the State and of the production of petroleum, it is declared to...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 15
  The Department is authorized to insert in any permit or lease issued under the provisions of this Act such terms as are customary and...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 16
  The Department is hereby required to prescribe and publish, for the information of the public, all reasonable rules and regulations necessary for carrying out...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 17
  All leases of land containing petroleum made or issued under the provisions of this Act, shall be subject to, and contain a condition that...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 18
  Any person granted a permit or lease under the provisions of this Act, shall have a right of way over public lands, as provided...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 19
  After the issuance of any petroleum lease the lessee shall proceed to develop the petroleum in the lands covered thereby through the drilling of...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 20
  All leases shall provide that the lessee shall drill an offset well to any well on adjoining land which is within three hundred fifty...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 21
  In the case of any application for prospecting permits or leases to river beds, lake beds, and shore lands, the owner of the right...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 22
  Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as requiring the Department to offer any tract or tracts of land for prospecting or lease,...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 23
  All royalty required to be paid hereunder, when oil is to be delivered, at the option of the Department, at the mouth of the...
• Illinois Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act. - 5 ILCS 615, Section 24
  If any provision or section of this Act shall be adjudicated to be unconstitutional such adjudication shall not affect the validity of this Act...

Last modified: February 18, 2015