(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)

1. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds one's self out as a funeral director or a funeral director and embalmer or a funeral director and embalmer intern as provided in this Code without being licensed or exempt under this Code shall, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, pay a civil penalty to the Department in an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each offense, as determined by the Department. The civil penalty shall be assessed by the Department after a hearing is held in accordance with Section 15-75.
2. (b) The Department may investigate any actual, alleged, or suspected unlicensed activity.
3. (c) The civil penalty shall be paid within 60 days after the effective date of the order imposing the civil penalty. The order shall constitute a judgment and may be filed and execution had thereon in the same manner as any judgment from any court of record.
4. (d) A person or entity not licensed under this Code who has violated any provision of this Code or its rules is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second and subsequent offenses.

(Source: P.A. 102-881, eff. 1-1-23.)