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

• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 1
  The practice of veterinary medicine in the State of Illinois is declared to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by ensuring the delivery of...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 2
  This Act may be cited as the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. (Source: P.A. 93-281, eff. 12-31-03.)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 3
  Definitions. The following terms have the meanings indicated, unless the context requires otherwise: "Accredited college of veterinary medicine" means a veterinary college, school, or division...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 4
  Exemptions. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any of the following: (1) Veterinarians employed by the federal or State government while engaged in their...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 5
  Restrictions and limitations. No person shall practice veterinary medicine and surgery in any of its branches without a valid license to do so. Any person...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 5.5
  Practice outside veterinarian-client-patient relationship prohibited. No person may practice veterinary medicine in the State except within the context of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship. (Source: P.A. 96-1322,...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 6
  Administration of Act. (a) The Department shall exercise the powers and duties prescribed by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois for the administration of licensing...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 7
  Veterinarian Licensing and Disciplinary Board. The Secretary shall appoint a Veterinarian Licensing and Disciplinary Board as follows: 7 persons shall be appointed by and shall...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 8
  Qualifications. A person is qualified to receive a license if he or she: (1) is of good moral character; (2) has graduated from an...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 8.1
  Certified veterinary technician. A person who is a certified veterinary technician who performs veterinary technology contrary to this Act is guilty of a Class...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 9
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-1016. Repealed by P.A. 93-281, eff. 12-31-03)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 10
  Application for licensure. A person who desires to obtain a license as a veterinarian or a certificate as a veterinary technician shall apply to...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 10.5
  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 Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 11
  Practice pending licensure. A person holding the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, or its equivalent, from an accredited college of veterinary medicine, and who...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 12
  Renewal and inactive status; restoration; military service. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license or certificate shall be set by rule. (b)...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 13
  Licensure without examination; endorsement. The Department may license as a veterinarian or certified veterinary technician, without examination, but upon payment of the required fee, an...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 14
  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 Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 14.1
  Returned checks; fines. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department that is returned to the Department unpaid by the financial...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 14.2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-683, eff. 1-24-95. Repealed by P.A. 98-339, eff. 12-31-13.)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 15
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 93-281, eff. 12-31-03. Repealed by P.A. 98-339, eff. 12-31-13.)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 16
  Continuing education. As a condition for renewal of a license, licensees shall be required to complete continuing education in veterinary medicine in accordance with rules...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 17
  Any person licensed under this Act who dispenses any drug or medicine shall dispense such drug or medicine in good faith and shall affix to...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 18
  Unless otherwise contractually provided between veterinarian and client, a veterinarian may dispose of any animal abandoned in his establishment, provided he shall give notice...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 19
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13. Repealed by P.A. 98-339, eff. 12-31-13.)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 19.1
  Authority to dispense drugs in emergency situations. (a) A veterinarian licensed under this Act, in the absence of a traditional veterinarian-client-patient relationship, may dispense up...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 20
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-1016. Repealed by P.A. 98-339, eff. 12-31-13.)
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 21
  Emergency care to humans; civil liability. Exemption from civil liability for emergency care to humans is as provided in the Good Samaritan Act. (Source:...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 22
  Nothing in this Act shall restrict registrants from forming professional service corporations under the provisions of "The Professional Service Corporation Act", approved September 15,...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 23
  The Department shall maintain a roster of the names and addresses of all licensees and of all persons whose licenses have been suspended or...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 24
  Any person licensed under this Act may advertise the availability of professional services in the public media or on the premises where such professional services...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 24.1
  Impaired veterinarians. The Department shall establish by rule a program of care, counseling, or treatment for impaired veterinarians. "Program of care, counseling, or treatment"...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25
  Disciplinary actions. 1. The Department may refuse to issue or renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, or take other disciplinary or non-disciplinary...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.1
  Injunctive actions; orders to cease and desist. (a) If any person violates a provision of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.2
  Investigation; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.2a
  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 Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.3
  Records of proceedings. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. Any registrant who...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.4
  The Department may subpoena and bring before it any person and to take the oral or written testimony or compel the production of any books,...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.5
  Any circuit court, upon application of the Department or licensee, may order the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of relevant documents, papers,...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.6
  Board report. At the conclusion of the hearing the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of its findings of fact, conclusions of...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.7
  Motion for rehearing; procedure upon refusal to license or issue certificate. In any hearing involving the refusal to issue, renew, or discipline a license or...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.8
  Rehearing ordered by Secretary. Whenever the Secretary is not satisfied that substantial justice has been done in the revocation, suspension, or refusal to issue or...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.9
  Hearing officers; reports; review. The Secretary shall have the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.10
  Order or certified copy; prima facie proof. An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.11
  Restoration of license or certificate from discipline. At any time after successful completion of a term of indefinite probation, suspension, or revocation of a license,...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.12
  Surrender of license or certificate. Upon the revocation or suspension of any license or certificate, the licensee or certificate holder shall immediately surrender the...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.13
  Summary suspension. The Secretary may summarily suspend the license of a licensee without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of proceedings for a hearing provided...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.14
  All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law and all rules adopted...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.15
  Certification of record. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the Court or file any answer in court or otherwise appear...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.16
  Any person who is found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense. On...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.17
  Disclosure of patient records; maintenance. (a) No veterinarian shall be required to disclose any information concerning the veterinarian's care of an animal except on written...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.18
  Civil penalties for unlicensed practice. (a) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who violates Section 5 of this Act or...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 25.19
  Mandatory reporting. Nothing in this Act exempts a licensee from the mandatory reporting requirements regarding suspected acts of aggravated cruelty, torture, and animal fighting imposed...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 26
  Home rule. The regulation and licensing as a veterinarian are exclusive powers and functions of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate or...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 27
  Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated into this Act as if all of the provisions of that...
• Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. - 225 ILCS 115, Section 28
  Previous laws. Rights and obligations incurred and any actions commenced under the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act, as that Act existed prior to...

Last modified: February 18, 2015