Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 1
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. (Source: P.A. 89-61, eff. 6-30-95.)
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 5
Legislative intent. In adopting this Act, it is recognized that the field of environmental health is a dynamic field that is continually evolving into...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 10
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Board" means the Environmental Health Practitioners Board as created in this Act. "Department" means the Department of Professional...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 15
License requirement. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in an environmental health practice after the effective date of this amendatory...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 16
Exemptions. This Act does not prohibit or restrict any of the following: (1) A person performing the functions and duties of an environmental health...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 17
Powers and duties of the Department of Professional Regulation. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Department shall exercise the following functions, powers,...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 18
Board of Environmental Health Practitioners. The Board of Environmental Health Practitioners is created and shall exercise its duties as provided in this Act. The...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 19
Requirements of approval by Board of Environmental Health Practitioners. The Director may consider the recommendations of the Board in establishing guidelines for professional conduct,...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 20
Qualifications for registration as an environmental health practitioner. A person is qualified to be licensed as an environmental health practitioner if that person: (1)...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 20.1
Qualifications for an environmental health inspector. An environmental health inspector must have an associate's degree or its equivalent, including a minimum of 9 credit...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 21
Grandfather provision. A person who, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, was certified by his or her...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 22
Environmental health practitioner in training. (a) Any person who meets the educational qualifications specified in Section 20, but does not meet the experience requirement specified...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 23
Supervision. (a) A licensed environmental health practitioner in training or an environmental health inspector may perform the duties and functions of environmental health practice...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 25
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 Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 26
Examination for registration as an environmental health practitioner. (a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, only...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 27
Renewals; restoration. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be set by rule. As a condition for...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 28
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 Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 29
Deposit of fees and fines; appropriations. All fees and fines collected under this Act shall be deposited into the General Professions Dedicated Fund. All...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 30
Endorsement. The Department may issue a license as a licensed environmental health practitioner, without the required examination, to an applicant licensed under the laws of...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 31
Checks or orders dishonored. A person who issues or delivers a check or other order to the Department that is returned to the Department...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 35
Grounds for discipline. (a) The Department may refuse to issue or renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, or take other disciplinary...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 40
Surrender of certificates. Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the licensee shall immediately surrender the license to the Department, and if the...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 45
Record of Proceedings; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall provide a stenographer to record all testimony at the hearing of any case where...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 50
Use of title. Only a person who has qualified as a licensed environmental health practitioner and who is currently licensed by the State has...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 55
Penalty for unlawful practice; second and subsequent offenses. A person who engages or offers to engage in environmental health practice in this State without...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 56
Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds himself or herself out to practice...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 60
Violations; injunctions; cease and desist order. (a) If a person violates a provision of this Act, the Director may, in the name of the...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 65
Investigation; notice; hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of an applicant or a person or persons holding or claiming to hold a license....
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 70
Records of proceeding. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. The notice...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 75
Subpoenas; oaths; attendance of witnesses. The Department has the power to subpoena and to bring before it any person and to take testimony either...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 76
Compelling testimony. A circuit court, upon application of the Department or its designee, or of the applicant or licensee against whom proceedings under this...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 80
Recommendations for disciplinary action. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board shall present to the Director a written report of its findings and...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 85
Rehearing. In any hearing involving disciplinary action against an applicant or licensee, a copy of the Board's report shall be served upon the applicant...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 90
Hearing by other examiner. Whenever the Director is not satisfied that substantial justice has been done in the revocation, suspension, or refusal to issue...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 95
Appointment of hearing officer. The Director has the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 100
Order or certified copy. An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed by the...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 105
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 Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 110
License surrender. Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the licensee shall immediately surrender the license to the Department. If the licensee fails...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 115
Temporary suspension. The Director may summarily suspend the license of an environmental health practitioner without a hearing, simultaneously with the initiation of proceedings for...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 120
Judicial review. All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law and its rules. The term...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 125
Certification of records. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court, to file any answer in court, or otherwise...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 130
Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is expressly adopted and incorporated in this Act as if all of the provisions of that...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 135
Home rule. The regulation and licensing of environmental health practitioners are exclusive powers and functions of the State. A home rule unit may not...
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 99
(Renumbered). (Source: P.A. 87-1223; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
- Illinois Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 37, Section 999
This Act takes effect July 1, 1993. (Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
Last modified: February 18, 2015