(210 ILCS 85/11) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 152)
Sec. 11.
No hospital, nor any person connected with any hospital, shall
place children for adoption or for care in foster family homes, or shall
place children anywhere other than in the custody of their mothers, unless
the hospital shall also be licensed as a child welfare agency, pursuant to
the "Child Care Act", approved July 10, 1957, as amended, or unless the
written consent of the State Department of Children and Family Services be
first had and obtained; provided, that any hospital may release children
therefrom to a licensed child welfare agency.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3668.)
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