Opinion

Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. Pollution Control Board

  • 36 Ill. App. 3d 397
  • 344 N.E.2d 229
  • 1976 Ill. App. LEXIS 3646
Court
Appellate Court of Illinois
Filed
Mar 25, 1976
Status
Published
Author
Jones
On the bench
Earns, Karns, Jones
Cited by
5 cases

it is a commanding tenet of administrative law that an administrative agency and its officers may exercise only those powers conferred upon them by statute

How later courts described this case

  • it is a commanding tenet of administrative law that an administrative agency and its officers may exercise only those powers conferred upon them by statute

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Mr. JUSTICE JONES, specially concurring:

While I concur with the majority’s disposition of the petition for rehearing, I remain of the opinion that the Pollution Control Board was without jurisdiction to proceed in this matter, as I expressed in my dissent.

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