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

• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 1
  The practice of optometry in the State of Illinois is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety and welfare and to be subject...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 2
  This Act may be cited as the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. (Source: P.A. 85-896; 86-1475.)
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 3
  Practice of optometry defined; referrals; manufacture of lenses and prisms. (a) The practice of optometry is defined as the employment of any and all means...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 4
  No person shall practice, or attempt to practice, optometry, as defined in this Act, without a valid license as an optometrist issued by the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 4.5
  Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds oneself out to practice optometry without being...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 5
  Title and designation of licensed optometrists. Every person to whom a valid existing license as an optometrist has been issued under this Act, shall be...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 6
  Display of license; change of address; record of examinations and prescriptions. Every holder of a license under this Act shall display such license on a...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 7
  Additional practice locations. Every holder of a license under this Act shall report to the Department every additional location where the licensee engages in the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 8
  Permitted activities. This Act does not prohibit: (1) Any person licensed in this State under any other Act from engaging in the practice for which...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 9
  Definitions. In this Act: (1) "Department" means the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. (2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. (3)...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 10
  Powers and duties of Department; rules; report. The Department shall exercise the powers and duties prescribed by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois for the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 11
  Optometric Licensing and Disciplinary Board. The Secretary shall appoint an Illinois Optometric Licensing and Disciplinary Board as follows: Seven persons who shall be appointed by...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 11.5
  Optometric coordinator. The Secretary shall, upon consultation with the Board and with consideration of credentials and experience commensurate with the requirements of the position, select...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 12
  Applications for licenses. Applications for original licenses shall be made to the Department in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the Department and shall...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 12.5
  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 Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 13
  Examination of applicants. The Department shall promulgate rules establishing examination requirements for applicants as optometrists. The examination shall accurately evaluate the applicant's ability to perform...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 14
  A person shall be qualified for initial licensure as an optometrist if that person has applied in writing in form and substance satisfactory to the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 15
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-140, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 15.1
  Diagnostic and therapeutic authority. (a) For purposes of the Act, "ocular pharmaceutical agents" means topical anesthetics, topical mydriatics, topical cycloplegics, topical miotics and mydriatic reversing...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 15.2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-787, eff. 5-19-06. Repealed by P.A. 96-270, eff. 1-1-10.)
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 16
  Renewal, reinstatement or restoration of licenses; military service. The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be set by...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 17
  Inactive status. Any optometrist who notifies the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department, may elect to place his or her license on...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 18
  Endorsement. The Department may, in its discretion, license as an optometrist, without examination on payment of the required fee, an applicant who is so...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 19
  Fees. The Department shall provide by rule, for a schedule of fees to be paid for licenses or certificates of registration by all applicants. The...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 20
  Fund. All moneys received by the Department pursuant to this Act shall be deposited in the Optometric Licensing and Disciplinary Board Fund, which is hereby...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 21
  The Department shall maintain a roster of the names and addresses of all licensees and of all persons whose licenses have been suspended or revoked....
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 22
  Any person licensed under this Act may advertise the availability of professional services in the public media or on the premises where such professional...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 23
  Practice by corporations. No license shall be issued by the Department to any corporation that (i) has a stated purpose that includes, or (ii) practices...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 24
  Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The Department may refuse to issue or to renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand or take other...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 24.2
  Prohibition against fee splitting. (a) A licensee under this Act may not directly or indirectly divide, share or split any professional fee or other form...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 24.5
  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 Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 25
  Returned checks; fines. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department that is returned to the Department unpaid by the financial...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.1
  Injunctions; criminal offenses; cease and desist orders. (a) If any person violates the provision of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.2
  Investigation; notice. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a license. The...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.3
  Formal hearing; preservation of record. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.4
  Any circuit court may, upon application of the Department or its designee or of the applicant or licensee against whom proceedings pursuant to Section...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.5
  Subpoena; oaths. The Department shall have power to subpoena and bring before it any person in this State and to take testimony either orally or...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.6
  Findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.7
  Hearing officer. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 26.6 of this Act, the Secretary shall have the authority to appoint any attorney duly licensed to practice...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.8
  Service of report; rehearing; order. In any case involving the discipline of a license, a copy of the Board's report shall be served upon the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.9
  Substantial justice; rehearing. Whenever the Secretary is satisfied that substantial justice has not been done in the revocation, suspension or refusal to issue or renew...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.10
  Order or certified copy as prima facie proof. An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.11
  At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license the Department may restore it to the accused person, unless after an investigation and...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.12
  Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the licensee shall forthwith surrender the license to the Department and if the licensee fails to do...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.13
  Temporary suspension. The Secretary may temporarily suspend the license of an optometrist without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of proceedings for a hearing provided...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.14
  All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Review Law", as amended, and all...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.15
  Certification of record. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the Court or file any answer in court or otherwise...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 26.16
  Any person who is found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. On conviction of a...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 27
  Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated herein as if all of the provisions of that Act...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 28
  It is declared to be the public policy of this State, pursuant to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the...
• Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. - 225 ILCS 80, Section 29
  All licenses and certificates of registration in effect on December 31, 1987 and issued pursuant to the "Illinois Optometric Practice Act", approved June 15,...

Last modified: February 18, 2015