(225 ILCS 705/2.11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 311)
Sec. 2.11.
Subject to the procedure provided for in Section 2.14, in case
of dispute between operators and miners on the
proper interpretation of rules, regulations, and laws in relation to
coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health
and safety of persons employed therein, and the dispute is filed in
formal written form with the Department, the Director of the Office of
Mines and Minerals shall call a meeting of the Mining Board to review the
dispute. An opinion of the proper interpretation of the disputed rule,
regulation, or law, concurred in by a majority of the Mining Board,
shall be binding upon the Department to enforce; and the operators and
miners must abide by the opinion, unless the opinion of the Mining Board
is at variance with an opinion of interpretation by the Attorney General
of the intent of the rule, regulation or law. In case the opinion of the
Attorney General is at variance with the opinion of the Mining Board,
then all parties must abide by the opinion of the Attorney General,
except that all parties shall have recourse to courts of this State.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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