(210 ILCS 5/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 157-8.4)
Sec. 4.
No person shall open, conduct or maintain an ambulatory surgical
treatment center without first obtaining a license from the Department.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or abridge the power of
municipalities to license and regulate ambulatory surgical treatment
centers, provided that the municipal ordinance requires compliance with at
least the minimum requirements developed by the Department pursuant to this
Act.
The Administrative Review Law, as heretofore or
hereafter amended, shall be applicable to the judicial review of final
administrative decisions of the regulatory agency of the municipality. Any
municipality having an ordinance licensing and regulating ambulatory
surgical treatment centers which provides for minimum standards and
regulations which meet at least the minimum requirements established
pursuant to this Act shall make such periodic reports to the Department as
the Department may deem necessary. This report shall include a list of
ambulatory surgical treatment centers meeting standards substantially
equivalent to those promulgated by the Department under this Act. The
Department may issue a license to such ambulatory surgical treatment
centers based upon such reports or the Department may conduct
investigations or inspections to determine whether a license should be
issued to these ambulatory surgical treatment centers.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)
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