20 ILCS 3205/9.5

(20 ILCS 3205/9.5)

Sec. 9.5.

Savings provisions.

(a) The rights, powers, and duties transferred to or retained by the Office
of Banks and Real Estate by this amendatory Act of 1996 shall be vested in and
shall be exercised
by the Office of Banks and Real Estate.  Each act done in the exercise of such
rights, powers, and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the
former agencies, divisions, officers, or employees thereof.

(b) Every person or corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and
duties and any penalties, civil or criminal, arising therefrom, and shall have
the same rights arising from the exercise of such rights, powers, and duties as
if such rights, powers, and duties had been exercised by the former agencies,
divisions, officers, or employees thereof.

(c) Every officer and employee of the Office of Banks and Real Estate shall,
for any offense, be subject to the same penalties, civil or criminal, as are
prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee
whose powers or duties were transferred or retained under this amendatory Act
of 1996.

(d) Whenever reports or notices are now required to be made or given or
papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon the agencies
and offices transferred by this amendatory Act of 1996, they shall be made,
given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the Office of Banks
and Real Estate.

(e) Where an Act administered by the Commissioner or Office of Banks and
Real Estate requires an entity to file a consent to service, any lawfully filed
consent to service on an official or agency that is the predecessor of the
Office of Banks and Real Estate shall constitute consent to service on the
Office of Banks and Real Estate and need not be refiled in response to this
amendatory Act of 1996.

(f) Where an Act administered by the Commissioner or Office of Banks and
Real Estate requires filing of a bond payable to the Commissioner or the
Office, any lawfully filed bond payable to an official or agency that is the
predecessor of the Commissioner or Office of Banks and Real Estate shall be
deemed payable to the Commissioner or Office of Banks and Real Estate and need
not be refiled in response to this amendatory Act of 1996.

(g) This amendatory Act of 1996 does not affect any act done, ratified, or
cancelled, any right occurring or established, or any action or proceeding had
or commenced in an administrative, civil, or criminal cause before this
amendatory Act takes effect; any such action or proceeding commenced by a
predecessor of the Office may be continued by the Office of Banks and Real
Estate.

(h) The rules of the agencies being reorganized by this amendatory Act of
1996 that are in effect at the time this amendatory Act of 1996 takes effect
shall become the rules of the Office of Banks and Real Estate and shall
continue in effect until amended or repealed by the Office of Banks and Real
Estate.

Any rules that have been proposed by the agencies being reorganized by this
amendatory Act of 1996 but have not been finally adopted at the time this
amendatory Act of 1996 takes effect shall thereupon become proposed rules of
the Office of Banks and Real Estate and any rulemaking procedures that have
already been completed by a predecessor agency for those proposed rules need
not be repeated.

As soon as practical after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996,
the Office of Banks and Real Estate shall revise and clarify the rules
transferred to or retained by it under this amendatory Act to reflect the
reorganization of rights, powers, and duties effected by this amendatory Act
using the procedures for recodification of rules available under the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act, except that existing title, part, and section
numbering for the affected rules may be retained.  The Office of Banks and Real
Estate may propose and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act
such other rules as may be necessary to consolidate and clarify the rules of
the agencies reorganized by this amendatory Act of 1996.

(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)