Chapter 720, CRIMINAL OFFENSES

(720 ILCS 678/30) Sec. 30. Severability. If any provision of this Act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining provisions of this Act, and to this end the provisions of this Act are …

(720 ILCS 648/30) Sec. 30. Retail distributors; general requirements. (a) No retail distributor shall distribute any convenience package except in accordance with this Section and Section 35 of this Act. (b) The convenience packages must be displayed behind store counters or in l…

(720 ILCS 646/30) Sec. 30. Methamphetamine manufacturing material. (a) It is unlawful to knowingly engage in the possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of any methamphetamine manufacturing material, other than a methamphetamine precursor, substance containi…

(720 ILCS 570/301) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1301) Sec. 301. The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall promulgate rules and charge reasonable fees and fines relating to the registration and control of the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of controlled su…

(720 ILCS 570/302) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1302) Sec. 302. (a) Every person who manufactures, distributes, or dispenses any controlled substances; engages in chemical analysis, research, or instructional activities which utilize controlled substances; purchases, stores, or adminis…

(720 ILCS 570/303) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1303) Sec. 303. (a) The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall license an applicant to manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled substances included in Sections 202, 204, 206, 208, 210 and 212 of this Act or purcha…

(720 ILCS 570/303.05) Sec. 303.05. Mid-level practitioner registration. (a) The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall register licensed physician assistants, licensed advanced practice registered nurses, and prescribing psychologists licensed under Section 4.2…

(720 ILCS 570/303.1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1303.1) Sec. 303.1. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation that is returned to the Department unpaid by the financial institution upon which it is drawn shall pay to t…

(720 ILCS 570/304) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1304) Sec. 304. (a) A registration under Section 303 to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance or purchase, store, or administer euthanasia drugs may be denied, refused renewal, suspended, or revoked by the Department…

(720 ILCS 570/305) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1305) Sec. 305. (a) Before denying, refusing renewal of, suspending, or revoking a registration, or imposing a fine on an applicant or registrant, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall serve upon the applicant or r…

(720 ILCS 570/306) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1306) Sec. 306. Every practitioner and person who is required under this Act to be registered to manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled substances or purchase, store, or administer euthanasia drugs under this Act shall keep record…

(720 ILCS 570/307) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1307) Sec. 307. Controlled substances in Schedules I and II shall be distributed by a registrant to another registrant only pursuant to a written order. Compliance with the laws of the United States respecting order forms shall be deemed …

(720 ILCS 570/309) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1309) Sec. 309. On or after April 1, 2000, no person shall issue a prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance, which is a narcotic drug listed in Section 206 of this Act; or which contains any quantity of amphetamine or methamphe…

(720 ILCS 570/311.5) Sec. 311.5. Electronic prescriptions for controlled substances. Notwithstanding any other Section in this Act, a prescriber who is otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances in Illinois may issue an electronic prescription for Schedule II, III, I…

(720 ILCS 570/311.6) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-846) Sec. 311.6. Prescriptions for substance classified in Schedule II, III, IV, or V sent electronically; exceptions. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescription for a substance classified in S…

(720 ILCS 570/312) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1312) Sec. 312. Requirements for dispensing controlled substances. (a) A practitioner, in good faith, may dispense a Schedule II controlled substance, which is a narcotic drug listed in Section 206 of this Act; or which contains any quant…

(720 ILCS 570/313) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1313) Sec. 313. (a) Controlled substances which are lawfully administered in hospitals or institutions licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act shall be exempt from the requirements of Sections 312, 315.6, and 316, except that the prescr…

(720 ILCS 570/314.5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-512) Sec. 314.5. Medication shopping; pharmacy shopping. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to fraudulently obtain or fraudulently seek to obtain any controlled substance or prescri…

(720 ILCS 570/315.5) Sec. 315.5. Opioid education for prescribers. In accordance with the requirement for prescribers of controlled substances to undergo training under Section 1263 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328), every prescriber who is license…

(720 ILCS 570/315.6) Sec. 315.6. Risks of dependence on opioids. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: (1) "Opioid" means a narcotic drug or substance that is a Schedule II controlled substance under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (5) of subsection (b) or under subsection (c) of…

(720 ILCS 570/315.7) Sec. 315.7. Chronic pain treatment. (a) In this Section: "Chronic pain" means a state in which pain persists beyond the usual course of an acute disease or healing of an injury, or which may or may not be associated with an acute or chronic pathologic process…

(720 ILCS 570/316) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-535) Sec. 316. Prescription Monitoring Program. (a) The Department must provide for a Prescription Monitoring Program for Schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances, except testosterone, that includes the following componen…

(720 ILCS 570/316.1) Sec. 316.1. Access to the integration of pharmacy records with the Prescription Monitoring Program. (a) Subject to the requirements and limitations set out in this Section and in administrative rule, the Department shall not require, either expressly or effec…

(720 ILCS 570/316.2) Sec. 316.2. Information concerning testosterone. The Department shall purge from the records of the Prescription Monitoring Program, as established by Section 316 of this Act, all existing information concerning the prescribing or dispensing of testosterone, …

(720 ILCS 570/317) Sec. 317. Central repository for collection of information. (a) The Department must designate a central repository for the collection of information transmitted under Section 316 and former Section 321. (b) The central repository must do the following: (1) Crea…

(720 ILCS 570/318) Sec. 318. Confidentiality of information. (a) Information received by the central repository under Section 316 and former Section 321 is confidential. (a-1) To ensure the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and confidentiality of substan…

(720 ILCS 570/319) Sec. 319. Rules. The Department shall adopt rules under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement Sections 316 through 321, including the following: (1) Information collection and retrieval procedures for the central repository, including the contr…

(720 ILCS 570/320) Sec. 320. Advisory committee. (a) There is created a Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Committee to assist the Department of Human Services and Department of Public Health in implementing the Prescription Monitoring Program created by this Article and to…

(720 ILCS 678/33) Sec. 33. Rulemaking. The Department may adopt rules to implement and administer this Act. (Source: P.A. 96-782, eff. 1-1-10.)

(720 ILCS 649/35) Sec. 35. Immunity from civil liability. In the event that any agent or employee of a covered pharmacy or retail distributor reports to any law enforcement officer or agency any suspicious activity concerning a targeted methamphetamine precursor or other methamph…

(720 ILCS 646/35) Sec. 35. Use of property. (a) It is unlawful for a person knowingly to use or allow the use of a vehicle, a structure, real property, or personal property within the person's control to help bring about a violation of this Act. (b) A person who violates subsecti…

(720 ILCS 648/35) Sec. 35. Retail distributors; training requirements. (a) Every retail distributor of any targeted methamphetamine precursor shall train each sales employee on the topics listed on the certification form described in subsection (b) of this Section. This training …

(720 ILCS 678/35) Sec. 35. Rulemaking. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures…

(720 ILCS 600/4) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 2104) Sec. 4. Exemptions. This Act does not apply to: (a) Items used in the preparation, compounding, packaging, labeling, or other use of cannabis or a controlled substance as an incident to lawful research, teaching, or chemical analysis …

(720 ILCS 690/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-4) Sec. 4. Sentence. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), violation of this Act is a Class C misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense. (b) (1) The knowing ingestion of any co…

(720 ILCS 550/4) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 704) Sec. 4. Except as otherwise provided in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, the Industrial Hemp Act, and the Illinois Hemp Act, it is unlawful for any person knowingly to possess cannabis. Any person who violates this Section with res…

(720 ILCS 635/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-53) Sec. 4. Penalty. A person who violates any provision of Section 1 or 2 of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first such offense; and a Class 4 felony for a second or any succeeding offense. (Source: P.A. 93-392, eff. 7-2…

(720 ILCS 685/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 2358-4) Sec. 4. Offenses. (a) Sale to persons under 21 years of age. No person shall knowingly sell, barter, exchange, deliver or give away or cause or permit or procure to be sold, bartered, exchanged, delivered, or given away tobacco accessor…

(720 ILCS 690/4.5) Sec. 4.5. Exemption. This Act does not apply to the sale, offer for sale, delivery, or giving of any compound, liquid or chemical containing the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, or scopolamine by a retail merchant. (Source: P.A. 89-640, eff. 1-1-97.)

(720 ILCS 646/40) Sec. 40. Protection of methamphetamine manufacturing. (a) It is unlawful to engage in the protection of methamphetamine manufacturing. A person engages in the protection of methamphetamine manufacturing when: (1) the person knows that others have been participat…

(720 ILCS 648/40) Sec. 40. Penalties. (a) Violations of subsection (b) of Section 20 of this Act. (1) Any person who knowingly purchases, receives, or otherwise acquires, within any 30-day period, products containing more than a total of 7,500 milligrams of ephedrine or pseudoeph…

(720 ILCS 649/40) Sec. 40. Preemption. The regulation of the tracking of methamphetamine precursors is an exclusive power and function of the State. A county or municipality, including a home rule unit, may not regulate the tracking of methamphetamine precursors. This Section is …

(720 ILCS 570/401) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401) Sec. 401. Manufacture or delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, a controlled substance, a counterfeit substance, or controlled substance analog. Except as authorized by this Act, it is unlawful for any person…

(720 ILCS 570/401.1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401.1) Sec. 401.1. Controlled Substance Trafficking. (a) Except for purposes as authorized by this Act, any person who knowingly brings or causes to be brought into this State for the purpose of manufacture or delivery or with the inte…

(720 ILCS 570/401.5) Sec. 401.5. Chemical breakdown of illicit controlled substance. (a) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture a controlled substance other than methamphetamine prohibited by this Act by chemically deriving the controlled substance from one or more other co…

(720 ILCS 570/402) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1402) Sec. 402. Except as otherwise authorized by this Act, it is unlawful for any person knowingly to possess a controlled or counterfeit substance or controlled substance analog. A violation of this Act with respect to each of the contr…

(720 ILCS 570/404) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1404) Sec. 404. (a) For the purposes of this Section: (1) "Advertise" means the attempt, by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation, to induce directly or indirectly any person to acquire, or enter into an obligation to ac…

(720 ILCS 570/405) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1405) Sec. 405. (a) Any person who engages in a calculated criminal drug conspiracy, as defined in subsection (b), is guilty of a Class X felony. The fine for violation of this Section shall not be more than $500,000, and the offender sha…

(720 ILCS 570/405.1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1405.1) Sec. 405.1. (a) Elements of the offense. A person commits criminal drug conspiracy when, with the intent that an offense set forth in Section 401, Section 402, or Section 407 of this Act be committed, he or she agrees with anoth…

(720 ILCS 570/405.2) Sec. 405.2. Streetgang criminal drug conspiracy. (a) Any person who engages in a streetgang criminal drug conspiracy, as defined in this Section, is guilty of a Class X felony for which the offender shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment as follows: (1)…