(410 ILCS 705/40-30)
Sec. 40-30. Transporting agent identification card. (a) The Department of Agriculture shall: (1) establish by rule the information required in an | ||
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(2) verify the information contained in an initial | ||
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(3) issue an agent identification card to a | ||
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(4) enter the license number of the transporting | ||
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(5) allow for an electronic initial application and | ||
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(b) An agent must keep his or her identification card visible at all times when on the property of a cannabis business establishment, including the cannabis business establishment for which he or she is an agent. (c) The agent identification cards shall contain the following: (1) the name of the cardholder; (2) the date of issuance and expiration date of the | ||
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(3) a random 10-digit alphanumeric identification | ||
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(4) a photograph of the cardholder; and (5) the legal name of the transporting organization | ||
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(d) An agent identification card shall be immediately returned to the transporting organization of the agent upon termination of his or her employment. (e) Any agent identification card lost by a transporting agent shall be reported to the Illinois State Police and the Department of Agriculture immediately upon discovery of the loss. (f) An application for an agent identification card shall be denied if the applicant is delinquent in filing any required tax returns or paying any amounts owed to the State of Illinois.
(g) An agent applicant may begin employment at a transporting organization while the agent applicant's identification card application is pending. Upon approval, the Department shall issue the agent's identification card to the agent. If denied, the transporting organization and the agent applicant shall be notified and the agent applicant must cease all activity at the transporting organization immediately. (Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19; 102-98, eff. 7-15-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.) |
(410 ILCS 705/40-35)
Sec. 40-35. Transporting organization background checks. (a) Through the Illinois State Police, the Department of Agriculture shall conduct a background check of the prospective principal officers, board members, and agents of a transporter applying for a license or identification card under this Act. The Illinois State Police shall charge a fee set by rule for conducting the criminal history record check, which shall be deposited into the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the actual cost of the record check. In order to carry out this provision, each transporting organization's prospective principal officer, board member, or agent shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the Illinois State Police for the purpose of obtaining a State and federal criminal records check. These fingerprints shall be checked against the fingerprint records now and hereafter, to the extent allowed by law, filed in the Illinois State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records databases. The Illinois State Police shall furnish, following positive identification, all conviction information to the Department of Agriculture. (b) When applying for the initial license or identification card, the background checks for all prospective principal officers, board members, and agents shall be completed before submitting the application to the Department of Agriculture.
(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.) |