765 ILCS 86/15-15

(765 ILCS 86/15-15)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020)

Sec. 15-15.

Disciplinary hearings; record; appointment of administrative
law judge.

(a) The Department has the authority to conduct
hearings
before an administrative law judge on proceedings to revoke, suspend,
or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration issued under
this
Act, or to place on probation or administrative supervision or reprimand a
registrant registered under this Act, or to impose a civil penalty not to
exceed $25,000 upon any registrant
registered under this Act.

(b) The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a
record
of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case involving the refusal to
issue
or the revocation or suspension of a certificate of registration issued under
this Act or involving other discipline of a registrant registered under this
Act. The notice of
hearing, complaint, and all other documents in the nature of pleadings and
written
motions filed in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony, the report of
the
administrative law judge, and the orders of the Department 
shall be the record of
proceeding.  At all hearings the Department and the respondent shall be entitled to have a court reporter in
attendance for purposes of transcribing the proceeding or prehearing
conference.

(c) The Secretary has the authority to appoint any attorney duly
licensed
to practice law in the State of Illinois to serve as an administrative law
judge in
any action for refusal to issue or renew a certificate of registration or to
discipline
a registrant or person holding a certificate of registration.  The
administrative law
judge has full authority to conduct the hearing.  The administrative law judge
shall
report his or her findings and recommendations to the Secretary.   If the Secretary
 disagrees with the recommendation of the administrative law
judge, the Secretary may issue an order in contravention of the
recommendation.

(Source: P.A. 96-855, eff. 12-31-09.)