(5 ILCS 615/21) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5021)
Sec. 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 to
prospect for and develop and produce petroleum from the abutting lands
shall have a preferential right for a period of thirty (30) days after he
has received notice from the Department of such application, to a
prospecting permit, or if petroleum has been discovered in commercial
quantities in any structure underlying such abutting lands, a lease, to the
portion of such river bed, lake bed, and shore lands as adjoins such
abutting lands upon the terms and conditions herein provided,
notwithstanding any acreage limitations herein provided as to permits and
leases.
(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1167.)
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