20 ILCS 2105/2105-5,  2105/2105-15, 2105/2105-100, 2105/2105-105, 2105/2105-110, 2105/2105-115,  2105/2105-120,  2105/2105-125, 2105/2105-175, and 2105/2105-325
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 720 - CRIMINAL OFFENSES|720 ILCS 570/ - Illinois Controlled Substances Act.|Article III

,  without  regard to any criminal prosecution or other proceeding.  Except as  authorized in subsection (c), proceedings to refuse renewal or  suspend or  revoke registration shall not abate the existing registration, which shall  remain in effect until the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has  held the hearing called for in the notice and found, with input from the  appropriate licensure or disciplinary board, that the registration  shall no longer remain in effect.(b) The Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may appoint an attorney duly  licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to serve as the hearing  officer in any action to deny, refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke, or take any  other disciplinary action with regard to a registration.  The hearing officer  shall have full authority to conduct the hearing.  The hearing officer shall  report his or her findings and recommendations to the appropriate licensure or  disciplinary board within 30 days after receiving the record.  The  Disciplinary Board shall have 60 days from receipt of the report to review the  report of the hearing officer and present its findings of fact, conclusions  of law, and recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.(c) If the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation finds that  there is  an imminent danger to the public health or safety by the continued  manufacture, distribution or dispensing of controlled substances by the  registrant, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may, upon the  issuance of a written ruling stating the reasons for such finding and  without notice or hearing, suspend such registrant.  The suspension shall  continue in effect for not more than 15 days during which time the  registrant shall be given a hearing on the issues involved in the  suspension.  If after the hearing, and after  input from the appropriate licensure or disciplinary board,  the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation  finds that the public health  or safety requires the suspension to remain in effect it shall so remain  until the ruling is terminated by its own terms or subsequent ruling or is  dissolved by a circuit court upon determination that the  suspension was wholly without basis in fact and law.(d) If, after a hearing as provided in subsection (a), the  Department of Financial and  Professional Regulation  finds that a registration should be refused  renewal, suspended or revoked, a written ruling to that effect shall be  entered.  The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's ruling shall remain  in effect until the ruling is terminated by its own terms or subsequent  ruling or is dissolved by a circuit court upon a determination that the  refusal to renew suspension or revocation was wholly without basis in fact and  law.  (Source: P.A. 97-334, eff. 1-1-12.)