225 ILCS 41/10-35
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 225 - PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS, AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS|225 ILCS 41/ - Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code.|Article 10 - Funeral Directors And Embalmers

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2023)Sec. 10-35. Renewal; reinstatement; restoration. The  expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Article  shall be set by rule.  The holder of a license as a licensed funeral director  and embalmer or funeral director and embalmer intern may renew  the license  during the month preceding the expiration date of the license by paying the  required fee. A licensed funeral director and embalmer or licensed funeral  director and embalmer trainee whose license has expired may have the license  reinstated within 5 years from the date of expiration upon payment of the  required reinstatement fee and fulfilling the requirements of the Department's  rules.  The reinstatement of the license is effective as of the date of the  reissuance of the license.Any licensed funeral director and embalmer whose license has been expired  for more than 5 years may have the license restored only by fulfilling the  requirements set forth in the Department's rules and by paying the required  restoration fee. However, any licensed funeral director and embalmer or  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  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 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  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  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 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  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.)