Chapter 415, ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

(415 ILCS 170/7) Sec. 7. Purpose. Nothing in this Act shall prevent or discourage a fire department from responding to and mitigating incidents where a fire, spill, or leak of a known or suspected flammable liquid has occurred or is believed to be imminent. (Source: P.A. 102-290,…

(415 ILCS 60/7) (from Ch. 5, par. 807) Sec. 7. Refusal to Register, Cancellation, Suspension. 1. The Director may refuse to register a pesticide or cancel or suspend a pesticide registration if: A. It does not appear that the composition of the pesticide is such as to warrant the…

(415 ILCS 15/7) (from Ch. 85, par. 5957) Sec. 7. (a) Each county shall begin implementation of its waste management plan, including the recycling program, within one year of adoption of the plan. The county may enter into written agreements with other persons, including a municip…

(415 ILCS 5/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007) Sec. 7. Public inspection; fees. (a) All files, records, and data of the Agency, the Board, and the Department shall be open to reasonable public inspection and may be copied upon payment of reasonable fees to be established where appr…

(415 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 507) Sec. 7. "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. (Source: P.A. 78-810.)

(415 ILCS 20/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7057) Sec. 7. It is the intent of this Act to provide the framework for a comprehensive solid waste management program in Illinois. The Department shall prepare and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 199…

(415 ILCS 5/7.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.1) Sec. 7.1. (a) All articles representing a trade secret reported to or otherwise obtained by the Agency, the Board or the Department in connection with any examination, inspection or proceeding under this Act, shall be considered co…

(415 ILCS 20/7.2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7057.2) Sec. 7.2. Pesticide containers. (a) The Department of Agriculture, in consultation and cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, shall design and implement a pilot pesticide container collection project, to be complete…

(415 ILCS 5/7.2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.2) Sec. 7.2. Identical in substance rulemakings. (a) In the context of a mandate that the Board adopt regulations to secure federal authorization for a program, regulations that are "identical in substance" means State regulations whi…

(415 ILCS 5/7.3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.3) Sec. 7.3. (a) The Board in its discretion may submit the following for publication in the Illinois Register as it deems appropriate: (1) a regulatory agenda to solicit comments concerning any rule that the Board is considering for …

(415 ILCS 5/7.4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.4) Sec. 7.4. All moneys received by the Pollution Control Board from the collection of fees, photo reproduction costs and the sale of opinions and orders, shall be deposited into the Pollution Control Board Fund, a special fund which …

(415 ILCS 5/7.5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.5) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-466) Sec. 7.5. Filing fees. (a) The Board shall collect filing fees as prescribed in this Act. The fees shall be deposited into the Pollution Control Board Fund. The filing fees shall be as follows: P…

(415 ILCS 5/7.6) Sec. 7.6. Electronic posting of permit information. Beginning January 1, 2014, the Agency shall maintain the following information on its website: (1) a description of each type of permit it issues and the persons subject to each type of permit; (2) a description…

(415 ILCS 175/70) Sec. 70. Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this Act is liable for a civil penalty of $7,000 per violation, except that the failure to register or pay a fee under this Act shall cause the person who fails to register or pay the fee to be lia…

(415 ILCS 205/70) Sec. 70. General battery disposal and collection requirements. (a) On and after January 1, 2028, all persons must manage unwanted covered batteries through one of the following options: (1) delivery to a collection site, event, or program established by or inclu…

(415 ILCS 135/70) Sec. 70. Deposit of fees and taxes. All license fees and taxes collected by the Department of Revenue under this Act shall be deposited into the Fund, less 4% of the moneys collected which shall be deposited by the State Treasurer into the Tax Compliance and Adm…

(415 ILCS 205/75) Sec. 75. Assessment of battery-containing products and their batteries. (a) By July 1, 2027, the battery stewardship organization must complete an assessment of the opportunities and challenges associated with the end-of-life management of portable and medium-fo…

(415 ILCS 135/77) Sec. 77. Review of final decisions. (a) All final Agency decisions made pursuant to this Act shall be subject to review in the manner provided for the review of permit decisions under Section 40 of the Environmental Protection Act. (b) Final administrative decis…

(415 ILCS 40/7a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 121g1) Sec. 7a. In order to protect the dental health of all citizens, especially children, the owners or official custodians of public water supplies shall be in compliance with the recommendations on optimal fluoridation for community wa…

(415 ILCS 35/7a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.157a) Sec. 7a. The Department shall issue an order compelling any pump installation contractor who is in violation of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder to remedy the violations. The order shall specify the vio…

(415 ILCS 30/7a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.117a) Sec. 7a. The Department shall issue an order compelling any person who is in violation of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder to remedy such violations. The order shall specify the violations and a date by…

(415 ILCS 105/8) (from Ch. 38, par. 86-8) Sec. 8. Persons who violate any of Sections 4 through 7 are subject to the penalties set out in this Section. (a) Any person convicted of a violation of Section 4, 5, 6 or 7 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. A second conviction for an o…

(415 ILCS 5/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1008) Sec. 8. The General Assembly finds that pollution of the air of this State constitutes a menace to public health and welfare, creates public nuisances, adds to cleaning costs, accelerates the deterioration of materials, adversely affec…

(415 ILCS 30/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.118) Sec. 8. The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department of Public Health under this Act, except that Section 5-3…

(415 ILCS 45/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 508) Sec. 8. "Advisory Board" means the Water Supply Operators' Advisory Board provided for by this Act. (Source: P.A. 78-810.)

(415 ILCS 35/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.158) Sec. 8. Installation by employees of municipal, industrial or public utility owner of well or well pump. Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent the employees of a municipal, industrial or public utility owner of a …

(415 ILCS 40/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 121h) Sec. 8. Owners or official custodians of public water supplies shall submit or cause to be submitted by operating personnel, such samples of water for analyses as may be requested by the Department, which samples shall be collected in…

(415 ILCS 95/8) (from Ch. 121, par. 468) Sec. 8. The Department is authorized to enter into agreements with the designated authority of the United States Government relating to the control of junkyards or scrap processing facility in areas adjacent to the Federal-Aid Interstate a…

(415 ILCS 60/8) (from Ch. 5, par. 808) Sec. 8. Authority, Determinations, Rules and Regulations, Uniformity. 1. The Director is authorized, after due notice and opportunity for hearing, to declare and establish as a pest, for purposes of pesticide use and application, any form of…

(415 ILCS 55/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7458) Sec. 8. (a) The Agency, after consultation with the Committee and the Council, shall propose regulations establishing comprehensive water quality standards which are specifically for the protection of groundwater. In preparing such re…

(415 ILCS 50/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 588) Sec. 8. The provisions of Sections 4 through 7 of this Act are not applicable to the establishment, operation, management or maintenance of digested sludge utilization sites. (Source: P.A. 78-350.)

(415 ILCS 75/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 988) Sec. 8. This Act shall not apply to employee complaints lodged against their employer, which fall under the provisions of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. (Source: P.A. 84-987.)

(415 ILCS 205/80) Sec. 80. Antitrust. Producers or battery stewardship organizations acting on behalf of producers that prepare, submit, and implement a battery stewardship program plan under this Act and who are thereby subject to regulation by the Agency are granted immunity fr…

(415 ILCS 205/85) Sec. 85. Collection of batteries independent of a battery stewardship program. Nothing in this Act shall prevent or prohibit a person from offering or performing a fee-based, household collection, or a mail back program for end-of-life portable batteries or medi…

(415 ILCS 135/85) Sec. 85. Repeal of fee and tax provisions. Sections 60 and 65 of this Act are repealed on January 1, 2030. (Source: P.A. 101-400, eff. 12-31-19 (see Section 5 of P.A. 101-605 for effective date of P.A. 101-400).

(415 ILCS 52/85) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2044) Sec. 85. Applicable federal, State, and local laws. Compliance with this Act does not relieve any person of responsibility for compliance with the Environmental Protection Act or any other applicable federal…

(415 ILCS 40/8a) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 121h1) Sec. 8a. The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department of Public Health under this Act, except that Section 5-35…

(415 ILCS 30/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.119) Sec. 9. Abandoned wells. Water wells, borings and monitoring wells which are abandoned shall be plugged in accordance with requirements established by the Department. (Source: P.A. 86-843.)

(415 ILCS 5/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1009) Sec. 9. Acts prohibited. No person shall: (a) Cause or threaten or allow the discharge or emission of any contaminant into the environment in any State so as to cause or tend to cause air pollution in Illinois, either alone or in combi…

(415 ILCS 65/9) Sec. 9. Home rule. (a) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, a unit of local government may not regulate fertilizer in a manner more restrictive than the regulation of fertilizer by the State under this Act, unless th…

(415 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 589) Sec. 9. Any person who establishes, operates, manages or maintains a digested sludge utilization site must monitor said site and report its findings, not less than quarterly, to the County Department of Public Health, or such other age…

(415 ILCS 60/9) (from Ch. 5, par. 809) Sec. 9. Licenses and pesticide dealer registrations requirements; certification. (a) Licenses and pesticide dealer registrations issued pursuant to this Act as a result of certification attained in calendar year 2017 or earlier shall be vali…

(415 ILCS 105/9) (from Ch. 38, par. 86-9) Sec. 9. Whenever litter is thrown, deposited, dropped or dumped from any motor vehicle not carrying passengers for hire, the presumption is created that the operator of that motor vehicle has violated Section 5, but that presumption may b…

(415 ILCS 15/9) (from Ch. 85, par. 5959) Sec. 9. Any county or municipality may, by ordinance, provide that no sanitary landfill facility located within the unincorporated area, if a county, or the incorporated area, if a municipality, may accept for final disposal at any time tr…

(415 ILCS 45/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 509) Sec. 9. "Owner" means any person who owns a community water supply. (Source: P.A. 98-856, eff. 8-4-14.)

(415 ILCS 55/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7459) Sec. 9. (a) As used in this Section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Community water system" means a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by residents or regularly serves at least 2…

(415 ILCS 30/9.1) Sec. 9.1. Closed loop well contractor certification. (a) Within 2 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, all closed loop well contractors, shall be certified by the Department. The Department shall issue closed loop w…

(415 ILCS 55/9.1) Sec. 9.1. Notification of actual or potential contamination. (a) Whenever the Agency identifies any volatile organic compound in excess of the Board's Groundwater Quality Standards or the Safe Drinking Water Act maximum contaminant level while performing its obl…

(415 ILCS 45/9.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 509.1) Sec. 9.1. "Exempt Community Water Supply" means any community water supply which meets all of the following requirements: (1) consists only of distribution and storage facilities and does not have any collection and treatment facil…

(415 ILCS 5/9.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1009.1) Sec. 9.1. (a) The General Assembly finds that the federal Clean Air Act, as amended, and regulations adopted pursuant thereto establish complex and detailed provisions for State-federal cooperation in the field of air pollution con…