Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

20 ILCS 505/9.9

(20 ILCS 505/9.9) (from Ch. 23, par. 5009.9)

Sec. 9.9. Review under Administrative Review Law.

Any responsible parent
or guardian affected by a final administrative decision of the Department
in a hearing, conducted pursuant to this Act, may have the decision reviewed
only under and in accordance with the Administrative Review Law as amended.
The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and the rules adopted pursuant
thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review
of such final administrative decisions of the Department.  The term "administrative
decision", is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Review of a final administrative decision under the Administrative Review Law is not applicable to a decision to conduct a family assessment as provided under subsection (a-5) of Section 7.4 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act because no determination concerning child abuse or neglect is made and nothing is reported to the central register.

Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by a court upon review
of the Department's orders in any case may be taken by either party to the
proceeding and shall be governed by the rules applicable to appeals in civil cases.

The remedy herein provided for appeal shall be exclusive, and no court
shall have jurisdiction to review the subject matter of any order made by
the Department except as herein provided.

(Source: P.A. 96-760, eff. 1-1-10.)