(225 ILCS 705/2.02) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 302)
Sec. 2.02.
The Mining Board shall be authorized, empowered and required to
make formal inquiry into and pass upon the practical and technological
qualifications and personal fitness of men seeking appointment as State
Mine Inspectors, and of those seeking certificates of competency as mine
managers, as hoisting engineers and as mine examiners. The Mining Board
shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the
provisions of this Act, or any other Act relating to coal mining. The
Mining Board also shall control and direct the State Mine Inspectors
hereinafter provided for, in the discharge of their duties, and shall have
the power, in person and through the State Mine Inspectors, to see that all
provisions of this Act are enforced. The Mining Board shall also cause to
be collected statistical details relating to coal mining in the State,
especially in its relation to the vital, sanitary, commercial and
industrial conditions, and to the permanent prosperity of said industry;
and the Mining Board shall cause such statistical details to be compiled
and summarized as a report of the Mining Board, to be known as the annual
coal report. The operators shall furnish to the Department on or before the
10th day of each month a monthly report of the coal produced the previous
month as required by the Department on forms furnished by said Department.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 2012.)
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