(525 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9503)
    Sec. 3. The Department may take special actions as necessary, consistent with the purposes of this Act, including but not limited to:
    (1) employment of cave resources management personnel;
    (2) appointment of volunteer cave management and administrative personnel;
    (3) providing cave owners with technical assistance and management advice;
    (4) entering into volunteer management agreements with individual persons, members and associations of the caving community;
    (5) initiating a comprehensive inventory of cave resources;
    (6) adopt rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to further the purposes of this Act;
    (7) issuance of grants from appropriated funds.
(Source: P.A. 84-140.)