(225 ILCS 95/22.2) (from Ch. 111, par. 4622.2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 22.2. Investigation; notice; hearing. The Department may investigate
the actions of any applicant
or of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a license. The
Department shall, before suspending, revoking, placing on probationary
status, or taking any other disciplinary action as the Department may deem
proper with regard to any license, at least 30 days prior to
the date set for the hearing, notify the applicant or licensee
in writing of any charges
made and the time and place for a hearing of the charges before the
Board, direct him or her to file his or her written answer
thereto to the
Board under oath within 20 days after the service on him or
her of
such notice and inform him or her that if he or she fails to file such
answer default
will be taken against him or her and his or her
license may be suspended, revoked, placed on probationary
status, or have other disciplinary action, including limiting the scope,
nature or extent of his or her practice, as the Department may deem proper
taken
with regard thereto. Written or electronic
notice may be served by personal
delivery, email, or mail to the applicant or licensee at his or her address of record or email address of record. At the time and place fixed in the notice,
the Department shall proceed to hear the charges and the parties or their
counsel shall be accorded ample opportunity to present such statements,
testimony, evidence, and argument as may be pertinent to the charges or to
the defense thereto. The Department may continue such hearing from time to
time. In case the applicant or licensee, after receiving
notice, fails to file an
answer, his or her license may in the discretion of the Secretary,
having received first the recommendation of the Board, be
suspended, revoked, placed on probationary status, or the Secretary
may take
whatever disciplinary action as he or she may deem proper, including
limiting the
scope, nature, or extent of such person's practice, without a hearing, if
the act or acts charged constitute sufficient grounds for such action
under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-1117, eff. 1-13-23.)
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