(225 ILCS 85/35.2) (from Ch. 111, par. 4155.2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 35.2. The Department's pharmacy investigators
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 or non-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 accused 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 or certificate 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,
provided for herein. Such written notice may be served by personal
delivery, email to the respondent's email address of record, or mail to the respondent at his or her
address
of record. At the time and place
fixed in the notice, the Board 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. Such hearing may
be continued from time to time. In case the accused person, 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 as provided herein, including limiting the scope, nature, or
extent of said person's practice, without a hearing, if the act or
acts charged constitute sufficient grounds for such action under this
Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-497, eff. 9-8-17.)
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