Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease Medicine Act (410 ILCS 440/)

Chapter 410 — Public Health

Diseases

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Sec. 0.09. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease Medicine Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

The Department of Public Health is authorized to acquire and distribute prophylactic medicines for the prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease for the use of registered medically indigent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease patients, certified by their physicians as being in need of this medication.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 2273.)

Sec. 2.

The Department of Public Health may adopt such rules and regulations as may enable it to carry out the provisions of this Act. The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department under this Act, except that Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act relating to procedures for rule-making does not apply to the adoption of any rule required by federal law in connection with which the Department is precluded by law from exercising any discretion.

(Source: P.A. 88-45.)