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| 1 | AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section
10 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 85/10) (from Ch. 111, par. 4130)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
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| 8 | Sec. 10. State Board of Pharmacy. There is created in the | ||||||
| 9 | Department of
Professional Regulation the
State Board of | ||||||
| 10 | Pharmacy.
It shall consist of 9 members, 7 of whom shall be | ||||||
| 11 | licensed pharmacists.
Each of those 7 members must be a | ||||||
| 12 | licensed pharmacist in good standing
in this State, a graduate | ||||||
| 13 | of an accredited college of pharmacy or hold
a Bachelor of | ||||||
| 14 | Science degree in Pharmacy and have at least 5 years'
practical | ||||||
| 15 | experience in the practice of pharmacy subsequent to the
date | ||||||
| 16 | of his licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State of | ||||||
| 17 | Illinois.
There shall be 2 public members, who shall be voting | ||||||
| 18 | members, who
shall not be licensed pharmacists in this State or | ||||||
| 19 | any other state.
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| 20 | Each member shall be appointed by the Governor.
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| 21 | The terms of all members serving as of March 31, 1999 shall | ||||||
| 22 | expire on that
date. The Governor shall appoint 3 persons to | ||||||
| 23 | serve one-year terms, 3 persons
to serve 3-year terms, and 3 | ||||||
| 24 | persons to serve 5-year terms to begin April 1,
1999. | ||||||
| 25 | Otherwise, members shall be appointed to 5 year terms. No | ||||||
| 26 | member shall
be eligible to serve more than 12 consecutive | ||||||
| 27 | years.
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| 28 | In making the appointment of members on the Board, the | ||||||
| 29 | Governor shall
give due consideration to recommendations by the | ||||||
| 30 | members of the profession
of pharmacy and by pharmaceutical | ||||||
| 31 | organizations therein. The Governor
shall notify the | ||||||
| 32 | pharmaceutical organizations promptly of any vacancy
of | ||||||
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| 1 | members on the Board and in appointing members shall give | ||||||
| 2 | consideration
to individuals engaged in all types and settings | ||||||
| 3 | of pharmacy practice.
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| 4 | The Governor may remove any member of the Board for | ||||||
| 5 | misconduct, incapacity
or neglect of duty and he shall be the | ||||||
| 6 | sole judge of the sufficiency of the
cause for removal.
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| 7 | Every person appointed a member of the Board shall take and | ||||||
| 8 | subscribe
the constitutional oath of office and file it with | ||||||
| 9 | the Secretary of
State. Each member of the Board shall be | ||||||
| 10 | reimbursed for such actual
and legitimate expenses as he may | ||||||
| 11 | incur in going to and from the place
of meeting and remaining | ||||||
| 12 | thereat during sessions of the Board. In
addition, each member | ||||||
| 13 | of the Board shall receive a per diem payment
in an amount | ||||||
| 14 | determined from time to time by the Director for attendance
at | ||||||
| 15 | meetings of the Board and conducting other official business of
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| 16 | the Board.
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| 17 | The Board shall hold quarterly meetings and an annual | ||||||
| 18 | meeting in January
of each year and such other meetings at such | ||||||
| 19 | times and places and upon
such notice as the Board may | ||||||
| 20 | determine and as its business may require.
Five members of the | ||||||
| 21 | Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of | ||||||
| 22 | business. The Director shall appoint a pharmacy coordinator, | ||||||
| 23 | who shall be
someone other than a member of the Board. The | ||||||
| 24 | pharmacy coordinator shall be a
registered pharmacist in good | ||||||
| 25 | standing in this State, shall be a graduate of
an accredited | ||||||
| 26 | college of pharmacy, or hold at a minimum a Bachelor of Science
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| 27 | degree in Pharmacy and shall have at least 5 years' experience | ||||||
| 28 | in the practice
of pharmacy immediately prior to his | ||||||
| 29 | appointment. The pharmacy coordinator
shall be the executive | ||||||
| 30 | administrator and the chief enforcement officer of the
Pharmacy | ||||||
| 31 | Practice Act of 1987.
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| 32 | The Board shall exercise the rights, powers and duties | ||||||
| 33 | which have been
vested in the Board under this Act, and any | ||||||
| 34 | other duties conferred
upon the Board by law.
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| 35 | The Director shall, in conformity with the Personnel Code, | ||||||
| 36 | employ not
less than 7 pharmacy investigators and 2 pharmacy | ||||||
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| 1 | supervisors. Each pharmacy
investigator and each supervisor | ||||||
| 2 | shall be a registered pharmacist in good
standing in this | ||||||
| 3 | State, and shall be a graduate of an accredited college of
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| 4 | pharmacy and have at least 5 years of experience in the | ||||||
| 5 | practice of pharmacy.
The Department shall also employ at least | ||||||
| 6 | one attorney who is a pharmacist
to prosecute violations of | ||||||
| 7 | this Act and its rules. The Department may, in
conformity with | ||||||
| 8 | the Personnel Code, employ such clerical and other employees
as | ||||||
| 9 | are necessary to carry out the duties of the Board.
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| 10 | The duly authorized pharmacy investigators of the | ||||||
| 11 | Department shall have the
right to enter and inspect during | ||||||
| 12 | business hours any pharmacy or any other
place in the State of | ||||||
| 13 | Illinois holding itself out to be a pharmacy where
medicines or | ||||||
| 14 | drugs or drug products or proprietary medicines are sold, | ||||||
| 15 | offered
for sale, exposed for sale, or kept for sale. The | ||||||
| 16 | pharmacy investigators shall
be the only Department | ||||||
| 17 | investigators authorized to inspect, investigate, and
monitor | ||||||
| 18 | probation compliance of pharmacists, pharmacies, and
pharmacy | ||||||
| 19 | technicians.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 91-827, eff. 6-13-00; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; | ||||||
| 21 | 92-880, eff. 1-1-04.)
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