Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 1
Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to protect the deaf or hard of hearing public from the practice of dispensing hearing instruments that could...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 2
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. (Source: P.A. 89-72, eff. 12-31-95.)
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 3
Definitions. As used in this Act, except as the context requires otherwise: "Department" means the Department of Public Health. "Director" means the Director of the...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 4
Disclosure; waiver; complaints; insurance. The hearing instrument dispenser shall give at no charge to every person fitted and sold a hearing instrument the "User...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 5
License required. No person shall engage in the selling, practice of testing, fitting, selecting, recommending, adapting, dispensing, or servicing hearing instruments or display a...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 6
Mail order and Internet sales. Nothing in this Act shall prohibit a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other organization, maintaining an established business address, from...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 6.1
Reciprocity. The Department shall issue a license to any hearing instrument dispenser who (i) has been certified by the National Board for Certification in Hearing...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 7
Exemptions. (a) The following are exempt from this Act: (1) Licensed physicians. This exemption, however, does not apply to a physician's employee or subcontractor...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 8
Applicant qualifications; examination. (a) In order to protect persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, the Department shall authorize or shall conduct an appropriate...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 9
Areas of examination. The examination required by Section 8 shall be set forth by rule and demonstrate the applicant's technical qualifications by: (a) Tests of...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 9.5
Trainees. (a) In order to receive a trainee license, a person must apply to the Department and provide acceptable evidence of his or her completion...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 11
Graduate audiology students. Full-time graduate students enrolled in a program of audiology in an accredited college or university may engage in the dispensing of hearing...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 13
Expiration and renewal of licenses. The expiration date and renewal period for licenses shall be set by rule. (Source: P.A. 96-683, eff. 1-1-10.)
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 14
Powers and duties of the Department. The powers and duties of the Department are: (a) To issue licenses and to administer examinations to applicants;...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 15
Fees. (a) The examination and licensure fees paid to the Department are not refundable and shall be set forth by administrative rule. (b) The moneys...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 16
Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Board. There shall be established a Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Board which shall assist, advise and make recommendations to the Department....
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 17
Duties of the Board. The Board shall advise the Department in all matters relating to this Act and shall assist as requested by the Director....
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 18
Discipline by the Department. The Department may refuse to issue or renew a license or it may revoke, suspend, place on probation, censure, fine, or...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 18.5
Suspension of license for failure to pay restitution. The Department, without further process or hearing, shall suspend the license or other authorization to practice of...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 19
Injunctions; civil penalties. (a) The practice of fitting, dispensing, and servicing hearing instruments by any person not at that time in possession of a...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 20
Inactive status. A hearing instrument dispenser who notifies the Department, on the prescribed forms, may place his or her license on inactive status and...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 21
The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant, corporation, partnership, trust, association or other entity, or any person holding or claiming to hold...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 22
Findings and recommendations of the Board. At the conclusion of the hearing, the hearing officer shall make findings of fact in such hearing to...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 23
The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case involving the refusal to issue...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 24
If any licensee violates any provision of this Act, the Director may, through the Attorney General, petition, for an order enjoining such violation or...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 25
Any circuit court may, upon application of the prosecutor or of the applicant or licensee against whom disciplinary proceedings are pending, enter an order...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 26
Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the licensee shall forthwith surrender the license to the Department and if such person fails to...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 27
Restoration of certificate. At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license, the Department may restore it to the accused person, upon...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 27.1
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 21 of this Act, the Director shall have the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice law...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 28
The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the Court or to file any answer in court or otherwise appear in...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 29
An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed by the Director, shall be prima...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 30
The determination by a circuit court that a licensee is subject to involuntary admission or judicial admission, as provided in the "Mental Health and...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 31
The provisions of "The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act", approved September 22, 1975, as amended, shall apply to this Act. All final administrative decisions of the...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 32
It is declared to be the public policy of this State, pursuant to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 32.5
Effect of amendatory Act of 1995. All rights and obligations incurred and any actions commenced under this Act shall not be impaired by the...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 33
Violation of Act; unlawful practice. The advertising, offering for sale, sale, or distribution of hearing instrument goods and services to consumers by any person...
- Illinois Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act. - 225 ILCS 50, Section 34
All remedies, penalties and authority granted to the Attorney General by the "Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act", approved July 24, 1961, as now...
Last modified: February 18, 2015