Illinois Code § 48

§ 48.

Violations; penalties. Any person who neglects, refuses, or fails to perform or discharge the duties or responsibilities imposed and required to be performed or discharged by any Section, clause, provisions, or rule of this Act, or who does any act or thing declared to be unlawful or prohibited by any such Section, clause, provision, or rule, or who violates any provision or requirement of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. The circuit courts of all counties within this State shall have and exercise within the limits of their respective districts, jurisdiction over all offenses and proceedings under this Act. All fines and penalties imposed or payable under this Act may be recovered by distress and sale of any mining or other personal property of the offender. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General and State's attorneys to prosecute all violations of this Act, or all cases of neglect, refusal, or failure to perform or discharge the duties or responsibilities imposed and required to be performed or discharged by said Act. It shall also be the duty of such Attorney General or State's attorneys upon request made, to assist the inspector of mines in obtaining compliance with this Act, or any provisions thereof, by the institution of appropriate legal proceedings and to represent such inspector in any and all legal proceedings brought against him or her in his or her official capacity. (Source: P.A. 87-1133.)