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Department's rules and by paying the required
restoration fee. |
However, any licensed funeral director and embalmer or
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licensed funeral director and embalmer intern whose license |
has
expired while
he or she has been engaged (1) in federal |
service on active duty with the United States Army,
Navy, |
Marine Corps, Air Force,
or Coast Guard, or the State Militia |
called into the service or training of
the United States of |
America or (2) in training or education under the
supervision |
of the United States preliminary to induction into the |
military
service, may have his or her license restored without |
paying
any lapsed renewal fees or
restoration fee or without |
passing any examination if, within 2 years after
termination |
of the service, training or education other than by |
dishonorable
discharge, he or she furnishes the Department |
with an
affidavit to the
effect that he or she has been so |
engaged and that his or her service, training
or education has |
been so terminated. |
No license of a funeral director and embalmer intern shall |
be
renewed more
than twice. |
In addition to any other requirement for renewal of a |
license or
reinstatement or restoration of an expired license, |
as a condition for the renewal,
reinstatement, or restoration |
of a license as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, each
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licensee shall provide evidence to the Department of |
completion of at least 24
hours of continuing education during |
the 24 months preceding the expiration
date of the license, or |
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in the case of reinstatement or restoration, within the 24 |
months
preceding the application for reinstatement or |
restoration. The continuing education sponsors
shall be |
approved by the Board. In addition, any qualified continuing
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education course for funeral directors and embalmers offered |
by a college,
university, the Illinois Funeral Directors |
Association, Funeral Directors
Services Association of Greater |
Chicago, Cook County Association of
Funeral Home Owners, Inc., |
Illinois Selected Morticians
Associations, Inc., Illinois |
Cemetery and Funeral Home Association,
National Funeral |
Directors Association,
Selected Independent Funeral Homes, |
National Funeral
Directors and Morticians Association, Inc., |
International Order of the
Golden Rule, or an Illinois school |
of mortuary
science shall be accepted toward satisfaction of |
the continuing
education requirements. |
The Department shall establish by rule a means for |
verification of
completion of the continuing education |
required by this Section. This
verification may be |
accomplished through audits of records maintained by
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licensees, by requiring the filing of continued education |
certificates
with the Department or a qualified organization |
selected by the Department
to maintain the records, or by |
other means established by the Department. |
Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, a person |
who is licensed as a funeral director and embalmer under this |
Code
and who has engaged in the practice of funeral directing |
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and embalming for
at least 40
years shall be exempt from the |
continuing education requirements of this
Section. Licensees |
who have not engaged in the practice of funeral directing and |
embalming for at least 40 years by January 1, 2016 shall not |
receive this exemption after that date. In addition,
the |
Department shall establish by rule an exemption or exception, |
for a limited period of time, for
funeral directors and |
embalmers who, by reason of advanced age, health or
other |
extreme condition, should reasonably be excused from the |
continuing
education requirement upon the approval of the |
Secretary. Those persons, identified above, who cannot attend
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on-site classes, shall have the opportunity to comply by |
completing home
study courses designed for them by sponsors. |
(Source: P.A. 96-1463, eff. 1-1-11; 97-1130, eff. 8-28-12 .)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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