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

• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 1
  The practice of shorthand reporting in the State of Illinois is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety and welfare and to be...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 2
  This Act may be cited as the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. (Source: P.A. 87-481.)
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 3
  License required. No person may practice shorthand reporting on a temporary or permanent basis in this State without being certified under this Act. This Act...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 3.5
  Uncertified practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds oneself out to practice as a shorthand...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 4
  In this Act: (1) "Department" means the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. (2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. (3) "Board"...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 5
  Title. Every person to whom a valid existing certificate as a certified shorthand reporter has been issued under this Act shall be designated as...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 6
  Restricted certificate. Upon receipt of a written request from the Chief Judge of the reporter's circuit, the Department shall, upon payment of the required fee,...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 7
  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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 8
  Certified Shorthand Reporters Board. The Secretary shall appoint a Certified Shorthand Reporters Board as follows: 7 persons who shall be appointed by and shall serve...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 9
  Qualifications. Applications for original certificates shall be made to the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department and shall be accompanied by the...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 10
  The Department shall authorize examinations at such time and place as it may designate. The examination shall be of a character to give a fair...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 11
  Qualifications; application. A person shall be qualified for certification as a certified shorthand reporter if: A. That person has applied in writing in form and...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 12
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-73. Repealed by P.A. 98-445, eff. 12-31-13.)
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 12.1
  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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 13
  No action or suit shall be instituted, nor recovery therein be had, in any court of this State by any person for compensation for...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 14
  Expiration, renewal, and military service. The expiration date and renewal period for each certificate issued under this Act shall be set by rule. Any certified...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 15
  Inactive status. Any certified shorthand reporter who notifies the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department, may elect to place his certificate on...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 16
  Endorsement; licensure without examination. The Department may certify as a certified shorthand reporter, without examination, on payment of the required fee, an applicant who is...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 17
  Fees; returned checks. (a) The fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not limited to, original certification, renewal and restoration of...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 18
  Roster. The Department shall maintain a roster of the names and addresses of all certificate holders and of all persons whose certificates have been suspended,...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 19
  Advertising. Any person certified under this Act may advertise the availability of professional services in the public media or on the premises where such professional...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 20
  Professional service corporations. Nothing in this Act shall restrict certificate holders from forming professional service corporations under the provisions of the Professional Service Corporation Act....
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 21
  Any person who is the holder of an individual certificate as a certified shorthand reporter heretofore issued under any prior Act, registering certified shorthand...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 22
  No proceedings to revoke or suspend any license shall abate by reason of the passage of this Act. The Department may revoke or suspend...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23
  Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The Department may refuse to issue or renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand or take other disciplinary...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.1
  Injunctive actions; order to cease and desist. (a) If any person violates the provisions of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.2
  Investigations; 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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.2a
  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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.3
  Records of proceedings. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. The notice of...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.4
  Subpoenas; oaths. The Department may subpoena and bring before it any person and to take the oral or written testimony or compel the production of...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.5
  Compelling testimony; contempt. Any circuit court, upon application of the Department or certificate holder, may order the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.6
  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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.7
  Motion for rehearing. In any hearing involving the refusal to issue or renew, or the taking of disciplinary action against, a certificate, a copy of...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.8
  Rehearing ordered by Secretary. Whenever the Secretary is satisfied that substantial justice has not been done in the revocation, suspension of, or the refusal to...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.9
  Hearing officers, reports, and review. The Secretary shall have the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.10
  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 Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.11
  Restoration of license from discipline. At any time after successful completion of a term of indefinite probation, suspension, or revocation of a license, the Department...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.12
  Surrender of license or certificate. Upon the revocation or suspension of any certificate, the certificate holder shall forthwith surrender the certificate or certificates to the...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.13
  Summary suspension. The Secretary may summarily suspend the certificate of a certified shorthand reporter without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of proceedings for a...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.14
  Administrative Review Law. All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law and...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.15
  Certification of record; receipt. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court or file any answer in court or otherwise...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 23.16
  Penalties. Any person who is found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense....
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 24
  Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated herein as if all of the provisions of that Act were...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 25
  Home rule. The regulation and licensing of a shorthand reporter are exclusive powers and functions of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 26
  Every shorthand reporter shall print his or her name and license or restricted license number on each transcript reported. (Source: P.A. 87-481; 87-576.)
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 26.1
  Responsibility for notes. It is the licensee's responsibility to preserve his or her shorthand notes for a period of no less than 10 years from...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 27
  As a condition for renewal of a license, licensees shall be required to complete continuing education in accordance with rules established by the Department. Persons...
• Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. - 225 ILCS 415, Section 28
  Payment for services. A person certified under this Act may hold an attorney, firm, or any other entity personally responsible for payment of shorthand...

Last modified: February 18, 2015