(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.)