(225 ILCS 425/16)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
Sec. 16. Investigation; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions or qualifications of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a certificate of registration. The Department shall, before suspending or revoking any certificate of registration, at least 30 days before the date set for the hearing of the charges before the Board, direct him or her to file his or her written answer thereto to the Board within 20 days after the service on him or her of the notice, and inform him or her that if he or she fails to file an answer default will be taken against him or her and his or her certificate of registration may be suspended or revoked. This written notice may be served by personal delivery or certified mail to the respondent at the address of his or her last notification to the Department. In case the person fails to file an answer after receiving notice, his or her license or certificate may, in the discretion of the Department, be suspended, revoked, or placed on probationary status, or the Department may take whatever disciplinary action is considered proper, including limiting the scope, nature, or extent of the person's practice or the imposition of a fine, without a hearing, if the act or acts charged constitute sufficient grounds for such action under this Act. The written answer shall be served by personal delivery, certified delivery, or certified or registered mail to the Department. At the time and place fixed in the notice, the Department shall proceed to hear the charges. The parties or their counsel shall be accorded ample opportunity to present statements, testimony, evidence, and arguments as may be pertinent to the charges or to the defense thereto. The Board shall be notified and may attend. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require that a hearing be commenced and completed in one day. At the discretion of the Director, after having first received the recommendation of the Board, the accused person's certificate of registration may be suspended or revoked, if the evidence constitutes sufficient grounds for such action under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89-387, eff. 1-1-96.)
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