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

• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 1
  Declaration of public policy. The practice of professional engineering in the State of Illinois is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety, and...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 2
  Short title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. (Source: P.A. 86-667.)
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 3
  Application of the Act; Exemptions. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the practice of structural engineering as defined in the Structural...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 4
  Definitions. As used in this Act: (a) "Address of record" means the designated address recorded by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application file...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 5
  Powers and duties of the Department. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Department shall exercise the following functions, powers and duties: (a) To...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 6
  Composition, qualifications and terms of the Board. (a) The Board shall be appointed by the Secretary and shall consist of 10 members, one of whom...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 7
  Powers and duties of the Board. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall exercise the following functions, powers, and duties: (a) Review...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 8
  Applications for licensure. (a) Applications for licensure shall (1) be on forms prescribed and furnished by the Department, (2) contain statements made under oath showing...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 8.5
  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 Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 9
  Licensure qualifications; Examinations; Failure or refusal to take examinations. Examinations provided for by this Act shall be conducted under rules prescribed by the Department. Examinations...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 10
  Minimum standards for licensure as professional engineer. To qualify for licensure as a professional engineer each applicant shall be: (a) a graduate of an approved...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 11
  Minimum standards for examination for enrollment as engineer intern. Each of the following is considered a minimum standard that an applicant must satisfy to qualify...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 12
  Educational credits or teaching as equivalent of experience. (a) After earning an acceptable baccalaureate degree as required by subsection (a) or (b) of Section...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 13
  After graduation courses. To complete acceptable educational requirements, an applicant may use course work successfully taken after the applicant's non-approved engineering baccalaureate degree or...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 14
  Seal. Every professional engineer shall have a seal or stamp, the print of which shall be reproducible and contain the name of the professional engineer,...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 15
  Technical submissions. All technical submissions prepared by or under the personal supervision of a professional engineer shall bear that professional engineer's seal, signature, and...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 16
  Issuance of license. Whenever the provisions of this Act have been complied with the Department may issue a license as a professional engineer and enroll...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 17
  Licensure; Renewal; Restoration; Person in military service; Retired. The expiration date and renewal period for each professional engineer license issued under this Act shall be...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 17.5
  Continuing education. The Department may promulgate rules of continuing education for persons licensed under this Act. The Department shall consider the recommendations of the...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 18
  Inactive status. A person who notifies the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department may elect to place that person's license on...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 19
  Endorsement. The Department may, upon the recommendation of the Board, license as a professional engineer, on payment of the required fee, an applicant who is...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 20
  Fees. (a) The Department shall provide by rule for a schedule of fees to be paid for licenses by all applicants. All fees are...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 21
  Rosters. The Department shall maintain a roster of the names and addresses of all professional engineers and professional design firms, partnerships, and corporations licensed or...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 22
  Advertising. Any person licensed under this Act may advertise the availability of professional services in the media or on the premises where such professional...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 23
  Professional design firm registration. (a) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the formation, under the provisions of the Professional Service Corporation Act, as amended,...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 24
  Rules of professional conduct; disciplinary or administrative action. (a) The Department shall adopt rules setting standards of professional conduct and establish appropriate penalties for the...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 25
  Violations; Injunction; Cease and desist order. (a) If any person or other entity violates the provisions of this Act, the Director, in the name...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 26
  Investigations; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or of any person or entity holding or claiming to hold a...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 27
  Stenographer; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case involving the refusal...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 27.5
  Subpoenas; depositions; oaths. The Department has the power to subpoena documents, books, records, or other materials, to bring before it any person, and to take...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 28
  Compelling testimony. Any circuit court may, upon application of the Department or its designee or of the applicant or registrant against whom proceedings under...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 29
  Notice of hearing; Findings and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of its finding...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 30
  Board; Rehearing. In any case involving the refusal to issue, restore or renew a license or the disciplining of a registrant, a copy of...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 31
  Secretary; Rehearing. Whenever the Secretary is not satisfied that substantial justice has been done in the refusal to issue, restore or renew a license, or...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 32
  Appointment of a hearing officer. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 26, the Secretary has the authority to appoint any attorney duly registered to practice law...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 33
  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 Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 34
  Restoration of suspended or revoked license. At any time after the successful completion of a term of suspension, revocation, or probation of any license, the...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 35
  Surrender of license. Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the registrant shall immediately surrender the license or licenses to the Department and,...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 36
  Temporary suspension of a license. The Secretary may temporarily suspend the license of a professional engineer without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of proceedings...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 37
  Administrative review; Venue. All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 38
  Certifications of record; Costs. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the Court or file any answer in court or...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 39
  Violations. (a) Using or attempting to use an expired license or registration is a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Each of the following acts is...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 40
  Unlawful practice. It is unlawful for any person, sole proprietorship, professional service corporation, corporation, limited liability company, or partnership, or other entity to practice...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 41
  Violation; Political subdivisions, County, City or Town; Construction without professional engineer. It is unlawful for the State or any of its political subdivisions, or...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 42
  Civil penalties. (1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person, sole proprietorship, professional service corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 43
  Consent order. At any point in the proceedings as provided in Sections 25 through 33 and Section 37, both parties may agree to a negotiated...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 44
  Fund; appropriations; investments; audits. Moneys deposited in the Design Professionals Administration and Investigation Fund shall be appropriated to the Department exclusively for expenses of...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 45
  Administrative Procedure Act; application. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated herein as if all of the provisions of Act...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 46
  Home rule. The regulation and licensing of professional engineers is an exclusive power and function of the State. Pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 47
  Practice of structural engineering or architecture. (a) No professional engineer may practice structural engineering as defined in the Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 48
  Construction of Act; Existing injunctions. The provisions of this Act, insofar as they are the same or substantially the same as those of any...
• Illinois Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. - 225 ILCS 325, Section 49
  All licenses and enrollments in effect on December 31, 1989 and issued pursuant to the Illinois Professional Engineering Act, approved July 20, 1945, as...

Last modified: February 18, 2015