(225 ILCS 720/7.01) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7907.01)
Sec. 7.01.
Prohibited Mining.
(a) No person shall cause or allow any
mining operations which will adversely affect any publicly owned park or
places included in the National Register of Historic Sites unless approved
by both the Department, in accordance with procedures of Article III of
this Act, and the Federal, State, or local agency with jurisdiction over
the park or the historic site.
(b) No person shall cause or allow any surface mining operations or any
surface impact of underground mining operations within 100 horizontal feet
of the outside right-of-way line of any public road, except where mine access
roads or haulage roads join such right-of-way line. The Department may
permit such roads to be relocated, or the area affected to lie within 100
horizontal feet of such road, if after public notice and opportunity for
public hearing in the locality a written finding is made that the interests
of the public and the landowners affected thereby will be protected.
(c) No person shall cause or allow any surface mining operations or any
surface impact of underground mining operations within 300 horizontal
feet from any occupied dwelling, unless waived by the owner thereof, nor
within 300 horizontal feet of any public building, school, church, community,
or institutional building, public park, or within 100 horizontal feet of a cemetery.
(d) No person shall cause or allow any mining operations on any land included
within an area designated unsuitable for mining operations under this Article.
(e) The prohibitions of this Section do not apply to mining operations
which existed on August 3, 1977.
(Source: P.A. 81-1015.)
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