Section 120.110  Definitions

            "Administrative Law Judge" or "ALJ" means an attorney, licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, presiding over an administrative hearing convened under this Part.

            "Contested case" means an adjudicatory proceeding (not including ratemaking, rulemaking, or quasi-legislative, informational, or similar proceedings) in which the individual legal rights, duties, or privileges of a party are required by law to be determined by an agency only after an opportunity for a hearing. [5 ILCS 100/1-30]

            "Day" means a calendar day.

            "Department" means the Department of Labor.

            "Director" means the Director of the Department of Labor or the Director's designee.

            "Document" means pleading, notice, motion, affidavit, memorandum, brief, petition, or other paper or combination of papers required or permitted to be filed.

            "Evidence" means those matters considered evidence under the Illinois Rules of Evidence [735 ILCS 5/Art. VIII].

            "IAPA" means the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act [5 ILCS 100].

            "Party" means each person or agency named or admitted as a party or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party. [5 ILCS 100/1-55]

            "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character other than an agency of State government.

"Statement" means a written statement made by a witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by the witness, or a stenographic, mechanical, electrical or other recording, or a transcription of the recording that is a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by the witness to an agent of the person obliged to produce the statement and recorded contemporaneously with the making of this oral statement.

(Source:  Amended at 38 Ill. Reg. 17631, effective August 15, 2014)