Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 1
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. (Source: P.A. 97-706, eff. 6-25-12.)
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 5
Declaration of public policy. The practice of professional counseling and clinical professional counseling is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety and welfare, and...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 10
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Address of record" means the designated address recorded by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application file or...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 15
Exemptions. (a) This Act does not prohibit any persons legally regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in the practice for which...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 18
Provision of clinical services by licensed professional counselors; scope of practice. (a) Licensed professional counselors may not engage in the independent practice of clinical professional...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 20
Restrictions and limitations. (a) No person shall, without a valid license as a professional counselor issued by the Department: (i) in any manner hold himself...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 21
Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds himself or herself out to practice as...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 25
Powers and duties of the Department. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Department may: (a) Authorize examinations to ascertain the qualifications and fitness...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 30
Professional Counselor Examining and Disciplinary Board. (a) The Secretary shall appoint a Board which shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Secretary. The Board...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 35
Application for original license. Applications for original licenses shall be made to the Department on forms prescribed by the Department and accompanied by the...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 37
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 Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 40
Examination; failure or refusal to take examination. (a) The Department shall authorize examinations of applicants at such times and places as it may determine....
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 45
Qualifications for a license. (a) Professional counselor. A person is qualified to be licensed as a licensed professional counselor, and the Department shall issue a...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 50
Licenses; renewal; restoration; person in military service; inactive status. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 55
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-580, eff. 5-21-98. Repealed by P.A. 92-719, eff. 7-25-02.)
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 60
Fees. The Department shall provide by rule for a schedule of fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including, but not limited to,...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 65
Payments; penalty for insufficient funds. Any person who issues or delivers a check or other order to the Department that is returned to the Department...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 70
Endorsement. The Department may issue a license as a licensed professional counselor or licensed clinical professional counselor, without the required examination, to (i) an...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 75
Privileged communications and exceptions. (a) No licensed professional counselor or licensed clinical professional counselor shall disclose any information acquired from persons consulting the counselor in...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 80
Grounds for discipline. (a) The Department may refuse to issue, renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, or take other disciplinary or non-disciplinary...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 83
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 Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 85
Violations; injunction; cease and desist order. (a) If any person violates the provisions of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the People...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 90
Investigations; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or any person holding or claiming to hold a license. The Department...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 93
Confidentiality. All information collected by the Department in the course of an examination or investigation of a licensee or applicant, including, but not limited to,...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 95
Record of proceedings; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. The notice...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 100
Subpoenas; oaths. The Department has the power to subpoena and bring before it any person to take the oral or written testimony or compel the...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 105
Compelling testimony. Any circuit court, upon application of the Department or the licensee, may enter an order requiring the attendance of witnesses and their testimony...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 110
Findings and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of its findings of fact, conclusions...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 115
Motion for rehearing. In any hearing involving the refusal to issue or renew a license, or the discipline of a licensee, a copy of the...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 120
Order for rehearing. Whenever the Secretary is not satisfied that substantial justice has been done in the revocation, suspension or refusal to issue or renew...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 125
Appointment of a hearing officer. The Secretary has the authority to appoint any attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to serve...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 130
Order or certified copy; prima facie proof. An order or certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed by...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 135
Restoration of license from discipline. At any time after the successful completion of a term of indefinite probation, suspension, or revocation of a license, the...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 140
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 Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 145
Summary suspension of license. The Secretary may summarily suspend the license of a professional counselor or a clinical professional counselor without a hearing, simultaneously with...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 150
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 Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 155
Certification of record; costs. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court, to file an answer in court, or to...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 160
Violations. (a) Unless otherwise specified, any person found to have violated any Section of this Act other than this Section is guilty of a Class...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 165
Administrative Procedure Act; application. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated in this Act as if all of the provisions of...
Illinois Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 107, Section 170
Home rule. The regulation and licensing of the practice of professional counseling and clinical professional counseling are exclusive powers and functions of the State....

Last modified: February 18, 2015