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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended by
5changing Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 60/2)  (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-2)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on November 30, 2011)
8    Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Act, the
9following definitions shall have the following meanings,
10except where the context requires otherwise:
11    1. "Act" means the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
12    1.5. "Chiropractic physician" means a person licensed to
13treat human ailments without the use of drugs and without
14operative surgery. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
15prohibit a chiropractic physician from providing advice
16regarding the use of non-prescription products or from
17administering atmospheric oxygen. Nothing in this Act shall be
18construed to authorize a chiropractic physician to prescribe
19drugs.
20    2. "Department" means the Department of Professional
21Regulation.
22    3. "Director" means the Director of Professional
23Regulation.

 

 

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1    4. "Disciplinary Action" means revocation, suspension,
2probation, supervision, practice modification, reprimand,
3required education, fines or any other action taken by the
4Department against a person holding a license.
5    5. "Disciplinary Board" means the Medical Disciplinary
6Board.
7    6. "Final Determination" means the governing body's final
8action taken under the procedure followed by a health care
9institution, or professional association or society, against
10any person licensed under the Act in accordance with the bylaws
11or rules and regulations of such health care institution, or
12professional association or society.
13    7. "Fund" means the Medical Disciplinary Fund.
14    8. "Impaired" means the inability to practice medicine with
15reasonable skill and safety due to physical or mental
16disabilities as evidenced by a written determination or written
17consent based on clinical evidence including deterioration
18through the aging process or loss of motor skill, or abuse of
19drugs or alcohol, of sufficient degree to diminish a person's
20ability to deliver competent patient care.
21    9. "Licensing Board" means the Medical Licensing Board.
22    10. "Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical
23Practice Act to practice medicine in all of its branches or a
24chiropractic physician licensed to treat human ailments
25without the use of drugs and without operative surgery.
26    11. "Professional Association" means an association or

 

 

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1society of persons licensed under this Act, and operating
2within the State of Illinois, including but not limited to,
3medical societies, osteopathic organizations, and chiropractic
4organizations, but this term shall not be deemed to include
5hospital medical staffs.
6    12. "Program of Care, Counseling, or Treatment" means a
7written schedule of organized treatment, care, counseling,
8activities, or education, satisfactory to the Disciplinary
9Board, designed for the purpose of restoring an impaired person
10to a condition whereby the impaired person can practice
11medicine with reasonable skill and safety of a sufficient
12degree to deliver competent patient care.
13(Source: P.A. 85-1209; 85-1245; 85-1440.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.