Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 1
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Respiratory Care Practice Act. (Source: P.A. 89-33, eff. 1-1-96.)
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 5
Declaration of public policy. The practice of respiratory care is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety, and welfare and to be subject...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 10
Definitions. In this Act: "Advanced practice nurse" means an advanced practice nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act. "Board" means the Respiratory Care Board appointed...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 15
Exemptions. (a) This Act does not prohibit a person legally regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in any practice for which...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 20
Restrictions and limitations. (a) No person shall, without a valid license as a respiratory care practitioner (i) hold himself or herself out to the public...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 25
Emergency care; civil liability. Exemption from civil liability for emergency care is as provided in the Good Samaritan Act. (Source: P.A. 89-33, eff. 1-1-96;...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 30
Powers and duties of the Department. Subject to the provision of this Act, the Department may: (a) Authorize examinations to ascertain the qualifications and...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 35
Respiratory Care Board. (a) The Director shall appoint a Respiratory Care Board which shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Director. The Board shall...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 40
Application for original license. Applications for original license shall be made to the Department on forms prescribed by the Department and accompanied by the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 42
Social Security Number on license application. In addition to any other information required to be contained in the application, every application for an original license...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 45
Examination; failure or refusal to take examination. (a) The Department shall authorize examinations of applicants as respiratory care practitioners at the times and places...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 50
Qualifications for a license. (a) A person is qualified to be licensed as a licensed respiratory care practitioner, and the Department may issue a license...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 55
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-259, eff. 1-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 94-523, eff. 1-1-06.)
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 60
Professional identification; advertising. (a) A person who is licensed with the Department of Professional Regulation in this State may use the title "respiratory care...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 65
Licenses; renewal; restoration; inactive status. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be set by rule....
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 70
Inactive status. A person who notifies the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department may elect to place his or her license...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 75
Fees. The Department shall provide by rule for a schedule of fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not limited...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 80
Returned checks; fines. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department that is returned to the Department unpaid by the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 85
Endorsement. (a) The Department may issue a license as a respiratory care practitioner without the required examination, to an applicant licensed under the laws...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 90
Continuing education. Proof of having met the minimum requirement of continuing education as determined by the Department shall be required of all license and...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 95
Grounds for discipline. (a) The Department may refuse to issue, renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, or take other disciplinary action as...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 97
Suspension of license for failure to pay restitution. The Department, without further process or hearing, shall suspend the license or other authorization to practice of...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 100
Violations; injunctions; cease and desist order. (a) If a person violates any provision of this Act, the Director may, in the name of the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 105
Investigations; notice; hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of an applicant, a licensee, or a person claiming to hold a license. The Department...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 110
Record of proceedings; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve the record of all proceedings at a formal hearing of any case. The...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 115
Subpoena; depositions; oaths. The Department has the power to subpoena and to bring before it any person, exhibit, book, document, record, file, or any...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 120
Compelling testimony. Any court, upon application of the Department, designated hearing officer, applicant, or licensee against whom proceedings under Section 95 of this Act...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 125
Findings and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board shall present to the Director a written report of its findings of fact,...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 130
Board; rehearing. In any case involving the refusal to issue or renew a registration, or the discipline of a registrant, a copy of the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 135
Director; rehearing. Whenever the Director believes justice has not been done in the revocation, suspension, refusal to issue or renew a license, or the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 140
Appointment of a hearing officer. The Director has the authority to appoint an attorney, licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, to...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 145
Order or certified copy; prima facie proof. An order or a certified copy, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 150
Restoration of suspended or revoked license. At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license, the Department may restore the license to...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 155
Surrender of license. Upon the revocation or suspension of a license, the licensee shall immediately surrender his or her license to the Department. If...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 160
Summary suspension of license. The Director may summarily suspend the license of a respiratory care practitioner without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 165
Administrative review; venue. (a) All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the Administrative Review Law and its...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 170
Certification of record; costs. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court, or file an answer in court, or...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 175
Violations. Unless otherwise specified, a person found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 180
Administrative Procedure Act; application. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated in this Act as if all of the provisions...
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 185
Home rule. The regulation and licensing of a respiratory care practitioner is the exclusive power and function of the State. A home rule unit...
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Amendatory provisions; text omitted
- Illinois Respiratory Care Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 106, Section 900
(Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 89-33, eff. 1-1-96; text omitted.)
Last modified: February 18, 2015