(415 ILCS 135/20)
Sec. 20. Council rules.
(a) The Council may adopt rules in accordance with the emergency rulemaking provisions of Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act for one year after the effective date of this Act. Thereafter, the Council shall conduct general rulemaking as provided under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
(b) The Council shall adopt rules regarding its practice and procedures for investigating and settling claims made against the Fund, determining reimbursement guidelines, coordinating with the Agency, and otherwise implementing and administering the Fund under this Act.
(c) The Council shall adopt rules regarding its practice and procedures to develop underwriting standards, establish insurance account coverage and risk factors, settle claims made against the insurance account of the Fund, determine appropriate deductibles or retentions in coverages or benefits offered under the insurance account of the Fund, determine reimbursement guidelines, and otherwise implement and administer the insurance account under this Act.
(d) The Council shall adopt rules necessary for the implementation and collection of insurance account premiums prior to offering insurance to an owner or operator of a drycleaning facility or other person.
(e) The Council shall adopt rules prescribing requirements for the retention of records by an owner or operator and the periods for which he or she must retain those records.
(f) The Council shall adopt rules describing the manner in which all disbursed moneys received from the Agency shall be deposited with a bank or savings and loan association to be approved by the Council. For purposes of this subsection, the Council shall be considered a public agency and, therefore, no bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds from the Council, and the Council shall not make any investments, unless in accordance with the Public Funds Investment Act.
(g) All final Council decisions regarding the Fund or any reimbursement from the Fund and any decision concerning the classification of drycleaning solvents pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 65 of this Act and any notice of the assessment of civil penalties under Section 69 of this Act shall be subject to appeal to the Administrator of the Council, by the affected parties, within 60 days after the final decision. The Council shall determine by rule persons who have standing to appeal final Council decisions. Any written decision by the Administrator may be appealed to the Council within 60 days after the Administrator's final decision. Any decision by the Council may be appealed to the Council's administrative law judge within 60 days after the Council's final decision. Notice of any hearing provided for by this Act shall be given not less than 7 days before the day fixed for the hearing. An appeal of the administrative law judge's decision will be subject to judicial review in accordance with the Administrative Review Law.
Any decision not timely appealed shall become a final administrative decision without the necessity of a final administrative decision being issued and shall be deemed to be a final administrative decision.
The Council shall adopt rules relating to appeal procedures.
The Council may designate an attorney, employed by the Council or privately employed, to act as an administrative law judge to preside at any administrative hearing resulting from the appeal of a Council decision. The Council and the Department of Revenue are authorized to enter into an agreement whereby an administrative law judge employed by the Department may be assigned to preside at the administrative hearings.
Proof of the Council's administrative decision may be made at any administrative or legal proceeding by a reproduced copy of the Council's record relating to the decision under the certificate of the Council. A reproduced copy shall, without further proof, be admitted into evidence and shall be prima facie proof of the decision.
The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and any rules adopted under the Administrative Review law by the Council, shall govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Council. The term "administrative decision" has the same meaning as it does in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Venue for an administrative review action challenging the results of an administrative hearing upholding an administrative decision issued by the Council shall be proper in the Circuit Court of the county where the plaintiff has its principal place of business, or Sangamon County if the plaintiff's principal place of business is located outside Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 96-774, eff. 1-1-10.)
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