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325 ILCS 2/40

(325 ILCS 2/40)

Sec. 40.

Reporting requirements.

(a) Within 12 hours after accepting a newborn infant
from a relinquishing person or from a police station, fire station, or
emergency medical
facility in accordance with this Act, a hospital must report to the
Department's State Central Registry for the purpose of transferring
physical custody of the infant from the hospital to either a
child welfare agency or the Department.

(b) Within 24 hours after receiving a report under subsection (a), the
Department must request assistance from law enforcement
officials to investigate the matter using the National Crime Information Center
to ensure that the relinquished newborn infant is not a missing
child.

(c) Once a hospital has made a report to the Department
under subsection (a), the
Department must
arrange for
a licensed child welfare agency to accept physical custody of the relinquished
newborn infant.

(d) If a relinquished child is not a newborn infant as defined
in this Act, the hospital and the Department must proceed as if the child is an
abused or neglected child.

(Source: P.A. 103-501, eff. 1-1-24.)