(5 ILCS 615/20) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5020)
Sec. 20.
All leases shall provide that the lessee shall drill an offset
well to any well on adjoining land which is within three hundred fifty
(350) feet of any outer boundary of the land covered by the lease, and
which well on adjoining lands is producing petroleum in paying quantities
and draining the lands covered by the lease, such offset to be begun within
ninety (90) days from the completion of the adjoining well and drilled with
due diligence to completion.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 943.)
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