(20 ILCS 3310/85)

Sec. 85. Saving clause.

(a) The rights, powers and duties transferred to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency by this Act shall be vested in and shall be exercised by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Each act done in exercise of such rights, powers, and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the Department of Nuclear Safety, its divisions, officers, or employees.

(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 powers, duties, rights and responsibilities as had been exercised by the Department of Nuclear Safety, its divisions, officers or employees.

(c) Every officer of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer whose powers or duties were transferred under this Act.

(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 officers transferred by this Act, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

(e) This Act shall not affect any act done, ratified, or canceled or any right occurring or established or any action or proceeding had or commenced in an administrative, civil, or criminal cause regarding the Department of Nuclear Safety before this Act takes effect, but such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

(f) Any rules of the Department of Nuclear Safety that are in full force on the effective date of this Act and that have been duly adopted by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall become the rules of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. This Act shall not affect the legality of any such rules in the Illinois Administrative Code. Any proposed rules filed with the Secretary of State by the Department of Nuclear Safety that are pending in the rulemaking process on the effective date of this Act, shall be deemed to have been filed by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. As soon as practicable hereafter, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall revise and clarify the rules transferred to it under this Act to reflect the reorganization of rights, powers, and duties effected by this 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 Illinois Emergency Management Agency may propose and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act such other rules of the reorganized agencies that will now be administered by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

(g) If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, this invalidity does not affect any other provision or application. To achieve this purpose, the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.

(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)