Act
Oil and Gas Wells on Public Lands Act
- 5 ILCS 615/0.01— Short title
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- 5 ILCS 615/2— State issuance of extraction permits; prohibited activities
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- 5 ILCS 615/4— No permits shall be issued upon public lands classified by the Department as proven territory
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- 5 ILCS 615/6— Permits shall require the immediate commencement of geological, geophysical or core drilling operation thereunder
- 5 ILCS 615/7— Every permittee shall have the option of surrendering his permit at any time and shall be relieved of all liability thereunder except for physical damage to the premises embraced by his permit which have been occasioned by his operations
- 5 ILCS 615/8— A permittee, at any time during the life of the permit or upon the termination thereof, shall be entitled to a lease for the extraction of petroleum from not to exceed one section, or an equivalent area, of such land to be selected by such permittee
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- 5 ILCS 615/10— Proceeds
- 5 ILCS 615/11— Petroleum leases shall not be issued on lands which have not been classified by the Department as proven territory
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- 5 ILCS 615/13— Upon the expiration or forfeiture of any permit no new permit covering the lands, or any of them, embraced by such expired or forfeited permit shall be issued for a period of thirty (30) days following the date of such expiration or forfeiture
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- 5 ILCS 615/18— Any person granted a permit or lease under the provisions of this Act, shall have a right of way over public lands, as provided by law, when necessary, for the drilling, recovering, saving and marketing of petroleum
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- 5 ILCS 615/24— If any provision or section of this Act shall be adjudicated to be unconstitutional such adjudication shall not affect the validity of this Act as a whole or any part thereof not adjudicated to be unconstitutional