Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 1
Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. (Source: P.A. 87-783.)
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 5
Legislative declaration of public policy. The practice of marriage and family therapy in Illinois is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety and...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 10
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Address of record" means the designated address recorded by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application file or...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 15
Exemptions. (a) Nothing contained in this Act shall restrict any person not licensed under this Act from performing marriage and family therapy if that...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 20
Powers and duties of the Department. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Department shall exercise the following functions, powers, and duties: (a)...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 25
Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing and Disciplinary Board. (a) There is established within the Department the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing and Disciplinary Board to...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 30
Application. (a) Applications for original licensure shall be made to the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department and shall be accompanied by...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 32
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 Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 35
Examinations. (a) The Department shall authorize examinations of applicants as licensed marriage and family therapists at such times and places as it may determine....
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 40
Qualifications for licensure. (a) A person is qualified for licensure as a marriage and family therapist if that person: (1) is at least 21...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 45
Licenses; renewals; restoration; person in military service. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be set...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 50
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-1237. Repealed by P.A. 90-61, eff. 12-30-97.)
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 55
Fees. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), the fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not limited to original...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 56
Deposit of fees and fines. All of the fees and fines collected under this Act shall be deposited into the General Professions Dedicated Fund....
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 60
Payments; penalty for insufficient funds. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department that is returned to the Department unpaid by...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 65
Endorsement. The Department may issue a license as a licensed marriage and family therapist, without the required examination, to an applicant licensed under the...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 70
Privileged communications and exceptions. (a) No licensed marriage and family therapist or associate marriage and family therapist shall disclose any information acquired from persons...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 75
Practice by corporations. No license shall be issued by the Department to any corporation (i) that has a stated purpose that includes, or (ii)...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 80
Roster. The Department shall maintain a roster of names and addresses of all persons who hold valid licenses and all persons whose licenses have...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 85
Refusal, revocation, or suspension. (a) The Department may refuse to issue or renew, or may revoke a license, or may suspend, place on probation, fine,...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 87
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 Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 90
Violations; injunctions; cease and desist order. (a) If any person violates a provision of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the People...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 91
Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds himself or herself out to practice as...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 95
Investigation; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions or qualifications of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a license. Before...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 100
Record of proceeding. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. The notice...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 105
Subpoenas; oaths; attendance of witnesses. The Department has the power to subpoena and to bring before it any person and to take testimony either orally...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 110
Recommendations for disciplinary action. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of its findings and recommendations....
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 115
Rehearing. In any hearing involving disciplinary action against a licensee, a copy of the Board's report shall be served upon the respondent by the Department,...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 120
Hearing by other hearing officer. Whenever the Secretary is not satisfied that substantial justice has been done in the revocation, suspension or refusal to issue...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 125
Appointment of a hearing officer. The Secretary has the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 130
Order; certified copy. An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed by the Secretary, shall...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 135
Restoration. At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license, the Department may restore the license to the accused person, upon the...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 140
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 Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 145
Summary suspension. The Secretary may summarily suspend the license of a marriage and family therapist or an associate marriage and family therapist without a hearing,...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 150
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 Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 155
Certification of records. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the Court or file any answer in court or otherwise...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 160
Violations; penalties. Any person who is found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 165
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is expressly adopted and incorporated in this Act as if all of the provisions of...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 170
Home rule. The regulation and licensing of marriage and family therapists and associate marriage and family therapists are exclusive powers and functions of the...
- Illinois Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 55, Section 200
This Act takes effect January 1, 1992. (Source: P.A. 87-783.)
Last modified: February 18, 2015