Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act

Sections covered

• 225 ILCS 50/1Purpose
• 225 ILCS 50/11Graduate audiology students
• 225 ILCS 50/12Hearing aid technicians
• 225 ILCS 50/13Expiration and renewal of licenses
• 225 ILCS 50/14Powers and duties of the Department
• 225 ILCS 50/15Fees
• 225 ILCS 50/16Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Board
• 225 ILCS 50/17Duties of the Board
• 225 ILCS 50/18Discipline by the Department
• 225 ILCS 50/18.5Suspension of license for failure to pay restitution
• 225 ILCS 50/19Injunctions; civil penalties
• 225 ILCS 50/2Short title
• 225 ILCS 50/20Inactive status
• 225 ILCS 50/21The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant, corporation, partnership, trust, association or other entity, or any person holding or claiming to hold a license
• 225 ILCS 50/22Findings and recommendations of the Board
• 225 ILCS 50/23The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case involving the refusal to issue a license or to discipline a licensee
• 225 ILCS 50/24If any licensee violates any provision of this Act, the Director may, through the Attorney General, petition, for an order enjoining such violation or for an order enforcing compliance with this Act or any rule issued pursuant hereto
• 225 ILCS 50/25Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations › 225 ILCS 50 — Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act
• 225 ILCS 50/26Upon the revocation or suspension of any license, the licensee shall forthwith surrender the license to the Department and if such person fails to do so, the Department shall seize such license
• 225 ILCS 50/27Restoration of certificate
• 225 ILCS 50/27.1Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations › 225 ILCS 50 — Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act
• 225 ILCS 50/28Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations › 225 ILCS 50 — Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act
• 225 ILCS 50/29Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations › 225 ILCS 50 — Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act
• 225 ILCS 50/3Definitions
• 225 ILCS 50/30The determination by a circuit court that a licensee is subject to involuntary admission or judicial admission, as provided in the "Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code", approved September 5, 1978, as amended, operates as an automatic suspension of his license
• 225 ILCS 50/31The provisions of "The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act", approved September 22, 1975, as amended, shall apply to this Act
• 225 ILCS 50/32It is declared to be the public policy of this State, pursuant to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, that any power or function set forth in this Act to be exercised by the State is an exclusive State power or function
• 225 ILCS 50/32.5Effect of amendatory Act of 1995
• 225 ILCS 50/33Violation of Act; unlawful practice
• 225 ILCS 50/34Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations › 225 ILCS 50 — Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act
• 225 ILCS 50/4Disclosure; complaints; insurance
• 225 ILCS 50/4.5Hearing aids dispensed by prescription to persons age 17 or younger
• 225 ILCS 50/4.6Prescription hearing aids for persons age 18 or older
• 225 ILCS 50/5License required
• 225 ILCS 50/6Mail order and Internet sales
• 225 ILCS 50/6.1Reciprocity
• 225 ILCS 50/7Exemptions
• 225 ILCS 50/8Applicant qualifications; examination
• 225 ILCS 50/9Areas of examination
• 225 ILCS 50/9.5Trainees