(225 ILCS 705/17.01) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 1701)
Sec. 17.01.
(a) Away from the pillar for the mine bottom, crosscuts between
entries shall not be made more than 60 feet apart without permission of the
Mining Board. But such consent shall not be granted except in case of fault
or to experiment and test some new method or plan of mining coal.
(b) Any person desiring to test some new method or plan of mining coal
that proposes to drive entries without crosscuts must first inform the
Department of such desire. Thereupon the Department shall fix a date for
the investigation and hearing before the Mining Board of such methods and
plans and notify all parties interested of such date when the employer and
employees may be represented at such hearing.
(c) Any new method of mining during the experimental stage shall be
under the direct supervision of the Mining Board and by and through its
consent only.
(d) Should any new method of mining coal with crosscuts more than 60
feet apart be proven to be safe in the judgment of the Mining Board after
investigation, tests, and experimentation, the Mining Board shall be
empowered to declare such system or method as conventional at the mine
involved.
(Source: Laws 1957, p. 2413.)
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