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Illinois Oil and Gas Act

  • 225 ILCS 725/1— Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section have the following meanings as used in this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/1.1— Waste as defined by this Act is prohibited
  • 225 ILCS 725/1.2— The Director shall appoint an Oil and Gas Board consisting of 7 members, 6 of whom shall be actively engaged in the oil and gas industry
  • 225 ILCS 725/1a— This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Oil and Gas Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/2— The provisions of this Act do not apply to quarry drill or blast holes, nor to seismograph test holes
  • 225 ILCS 725/3— The Department shall be charged with the duty of enforcing this Act and all rules, regulations and orders promulgated in pursuance of this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/4— The Department shall have jurisdiction and authority over all persons and property necessary to enforce effectively the provisions of this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/5— The Director shall have the authority to obtain all necessary personnel to carry out the provisions of this Act, to designate their headquarters and to define their duties
  • 225 ILCS 725/6
  • 225 ILCS 725/6.1— When the applicant has complied with all applicable provisions of this Act and the rules of the Department, the Department shall issue the permit
  • 225 ILCS 725/6.2— Oil and gas leases; termination due to non-development or non-production
  • 225 ILCS 725/7
  • 225 ILCS 725/7.5— Natural gas storage field; natural gas incident; public notice
  • 225 ILCS 725/7.6— Gas storage field inspection
  • 225 ILCS 725/8— The Department shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to make such inquiries as it may think proper to determine whether or not waste, over which it has jurisdiction, exists or is imminent
  • 225 ILCS 725/8a
  • 225 ILCS 725/8b— No person shall drill, convert or deepen a well for the purpose of disposing of oil field brine or for using any enhanced recovery method in any underground formation or strata without first securing a permit therefor
  • 225 ILCS 725/8c— (a) No person shall operate a liquid oil field waste transportation system without a liquid oil field waste transportation permit
  • 225 ILCS 725/8d— Falsification or misstatement of information
  • 225 ILCS 725/8e— Temporary abandonment status fees
  • 225 ILCS 725/9— The Department shall adopt rules of procedure for hearings and other proceedings before it under this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/9.1— Notice for hearings or other proceedings
  • 225 ILCS 725/10— All final administrative decisions of the Department made on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1988 are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law as now or hereafter amended, and the rules adopted under such Law
  • 225 ILCS 725/11
  • 225 ILCS 725/12— Any well for which a permit is required under this Act, other than a plugged well, which was drilled prior to the effective date of this Act and for which no permit has previously been issued, is required to be permitted
  • 225 ILCS 725/13
  • 225 ILCS 725/14— Each application for a permit to drill, deepen, convert, or amend shall be accompanied by the required fee of $400
  • 225 ILCS 725/15— Any permit to drill a well for oil or gas shall expire one year from the date of issuance unless acted upon prior thereto by the commencement of drilling operations which are to be continued with due diligence
  • 225 ILCS 725/16— Every owner or operator of any oil or gas well may appoint a person to act as his Attorney in fact to execute applications for permits to drill oil or gas wells, or any wells in connection therewith, and to execute bonds and any other papers relative to such permits
  • 225 ILCS 725/17
  • 225 ILCS 725/18— 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 of any working coal seam
  • 225 ILCS 725/19— If when a well is sunk and there is no oil or gas found and such hole is what is commonly known as a "barren well" or "dry hole", or when a well is abandoned, then such hole shall be plugged in accordance with rules and regulations formulated in pursuance of the provisions of this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.1
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.2— Supplemental remedy
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.3— Liability for damages-Responsibility for future remedial work
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.4— No admission of liability or discharge of action
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.5
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.6
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.7— The Department shall assess and collect annual well fees from each permittee in the amount of $100 per well for the first 100 wells and a $75 fee for each well in excess of 100 for which a permit is required under this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.8— The purpose of the Plugging and Restoration Fund is to provide security in case the permittee fails to perform his duties under this Act
  • 225 ILCS 725/19.9
  • 225 ILCS 725/20
  • 225 ILCS 725/21.1— (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
  • 225 ILCS 725/22.2— Integration of interests in drilling unit
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.1
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.2
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.3
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.4— (1) Upon the receipt of a petition for unitization, the Department shall fix the time and place for a public hearing, which shall be no less than 30 days nor more than 60 days after the date of the filing of said petition
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.5
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.6— If, after considering the petition and all evidence offered, the Director determines that the petitioner has failed to establish the several requirements for formation of a unit as provided herein, he shall promptly enter its order denying the petition and dismissing the same
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.7— 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 shall approve the plan of unitization submitted by the petitioner
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.8
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.9
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.10
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.11
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.12
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.13
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.14
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.15
  • 225 ILCS 725/23.16
  • 225 ILCS 725/25— No power herein granted to prevent waste shall be interpreted or construed as authorizing limitation of production of any well, wells, lease, leases, pool, field or properties to prevent or control economic waste or limit production to market demand
  • 225 ILCS 725/26— (a) Any person who violates any provision of this Act or any valid rule, regulation, permit or order of the Department made hereunder, or who repeats or continues the violation thereof, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 a day for each and every act of violation
  • 225 ILCS 725/28
  • 225 ILCS 725/28.1— The transfer of rights, powers and duties from the Mining Board to the Department of Mines and Minerals by this amendatory Act of 1988 shall not affect the obligations or duties, or the rights, powers or privileges, of any person subject to the provisions of this Act