225 ILCS 705/2.02

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.