(20 ILCS 801/1‑15)
Sec. 1‑15.
General powers and duties.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Department to investigate practical
problems, implement studies, conduct research and provide assistance,
information and data relating to the technology and administration of
the natural history, entomology, zoology, and botany of this State; the geology
and natural resources of this State; the water and atmospheric resources of
this State; and the archeological and cultural history of this State.
(b) The Department (i) shall obtain, store, and process relevant
data; recommend technological, administrative, and legislative changes and
developments; cooperate with other federal, state, and local governmental
research agencies, facilities, or institutes in the selection of projects
for study; cooperate with the Board of Higher Education and with the public
and private colleges and universities in this State in developing relevant
interdisciplinary approaches to problems; and evaluate curricula at all
levels
of education and provide assistance to instructors and (ii) may
sponsor an
annual
conference of leaders in government, industry, health, and education to
evaluate the state of this State's environment and natural resources.
(c) The Director, in accordance with the Personnel Code, shall employ
such personnel, provide such facilities, and contract for such outside services
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the Department. Maximum use
shall be made of existing federal and state agencies, facilities, and personnel
in conducting research under this Act.
(d) In addition to its other powers, the Department has the following
powers:
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information related to the powers and duties of the Department under this Act. This subdivision (d)(1) does not give authority to the Department to require reports from nongovernmental sources or entities.
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(2) To cooperate with and support the Illinois
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Science and Technology Advisory Committee and the Illinois Coalition for the purpose of facilitating the effective operations and activities of such entities. Support may include, but need not be limited to, providing space for the operations of the Committee and the Illinois Coalition.
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(e) The Department is authorized to make grants to local not‑for‑profit
organizations for the purposes of development, maintenance and study of
wetland areas.
(f) The Department has the authority to accept, receive and administer
on behalf of the State any gifts, bequests, donations, income from property
rental and endowments. Any such funds received by the Department shall be
deposited into the Natural Resources Fund, a special fund which is hereby
created in the State treasury, and used for the purposes of this Act or,
when appropriate, for such purposes and under such restrictions, terms and
conditions as are predetermined by the donor or grantor of such funds or
property. Any accrued interest from money deposited into the Natural
Resources Fund shall be reinvested into the Fund and used in the same
manner as the principal. The Director shall maintain records which account
for and assure that restricted funds or property are disbursed or used
pursuant to the restrictions, terms or conditions of the donor.
(g) The Department shall recognize, preserve, and promote our special
heritage of recreational hunting and trapping by providing opportunities to
hunt and trap in accordance with the Wildlife Code.
(Source: P.A. 91‑357, eff. 7‑29‑99; 91‑582, eff. 8‑14‑99; 92‑326, eff. 8‑9‑01.)
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(20 ILCS 801/1‑25)
Sec. 1‑25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State Museum.
In addition to its other powers and duties, the Department shall
have the following powers and duties which shall be performed by the
scientific surveys and the State Museum:
(1) To investigate and study the natural resources |
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of the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish information fundamental to the conservation and development of natural resources and for that purpose the officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in this State, doing no damage to private property.
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(2) To cooperate with and advise departments having
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administrative powers and duties relating to the natural resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar departments in other states and with the United States Government.
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(3) To conduct a natural history survey of the
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State, giving preference to subjects of educational and economical importance.
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(4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering
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the entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
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(5) To supply natural history specimens to the State
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educational institutions and to the public schools.
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(6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
(7) To investigate all insects dangerous or
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injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health.
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(8) To conduct experiments with methods for the
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prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects injurious to persons or property.
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(9) To instruct the people, by lecture,
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demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and protecting their property and health against injuries by insects.
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(10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the
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injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
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(11) To study the geological formation of the State
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with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays, building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and other products.
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(12) To publish, from time to time, topographical,
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geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the State.
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(13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving
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a general and detailed description of the geological and mineral resources, including water resources, of the State.
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(14) To cooperate with United States federal
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agencies in the preparation and completion of a contour topographic map and the collection, recording and printing of water and atmospheric resource data including stream flow measurements and to collect facts and data concerning the volumes and flow of underground, surface and atmospheric waters of the State and to determine the mineral qualities of water from different geological formations and surface and atmospheric waters for the various sections of the State.
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(15) To publish, from time to time, the results of
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its investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and flow of underground and surface waters of the State to the end that the available water resources of the State may be better known and to make mineral analyses of samples of water from municipal or private sources giving no opinion from those analyses of the hygienic, physiological or medicinal qualities of such waters.
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(16) To act as the central data repository and
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research coordinator for the State in matters related to water and atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey Division of the Department may monitor and evaluate all weather modification operations in Illinois.
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(17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the
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various educational institutions of the State, specimens, samples, and materials collected by it after the same have served the purposes of the Department.
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(18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy of
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Science and to publish a suitable number of the results of the investigations and research in the field of natural science to the end that the same may be distributed to the interested public.
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(19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
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preserve objects of scientific and artistic value, representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and work of man, geological history, natural resources, and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and educate the public concerning the foregoing.
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(20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum
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Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for the Society to carry on its functions and keep its records, and, upon the recommendation of the Museum Director with the approval of the Board of State Museum Advisors and the Director of the Department, to enter into agreements with the Illinois State Museum Society for the operation of a sales counter and other concessions for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the Society.
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(21) To accept grants of property and to hold
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property to be administered as part of the State Museum for the purpose of preservation, research of interpretation of significant areas within the State for the purpose of preserving, studying and interpreting archaeological and natural phenomena.
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(22) To contribute to and support the operations,
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programs and capital development of public museums in this State. For the purposes of this Section, "public museum" means a facility: (A) that is operating for the purposes of promoting cultural development through special activities or programs or through performing arts that are performed in an indoor setting, and acquiring, conserving, preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and in particular, organizing and continuously exhibiting specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and other things of historical, anthropological, archaeological, industrial, scientific or artistic import, to the public for its instruction and enjoyment, and (B) that either (i) is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local government or (ii) is a museum that has an annual attendance of at least 150,000 and offers educational programs to school groups during school hours. A museum is eligible to receive funds for capital development under this subdivision (22) only if it is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local government or if it is certified by a unit of local government in which it is located as a public museum meeting the criteria of this Section. Recipients of funds for capital development under this subdivision (22) shall match State funds with local or private funding according to the following:
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(a) for a public museum with an attendance of
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300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year, no match is required;
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(b) for a public museum with an attendance of
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over 300,000 but less than 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $1 from local and private funds for every $1 in State funds; and
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(c) for a public museum with an attendance of
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over 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $2 from local and private funds for every $1 in State funds.
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The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
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relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to the support of public museums in this State.
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(23) To perform all other duties and assume all
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obligations of the former Department of Energy and Natural Resources and the former Department of Registration and Education pertaining to the State Water Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Natural History Survey, and the State Museum.
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(24) To maintain all previously existing
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relationships between the State Water Survey, State Geological Survey, and State Natural History Survey and the public and private colleges and universities in Illinois.
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(25) To participate in federal geologic mapping
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(Source: P.A. 92‑606, eff. 6‑28‑02; 93‑872, eff. 1‑1‑05.)
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