(a) The Director and the Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall each cooperate with Federal agencies and other State agencies in discharging his or her responsibilities concerning traffic in controlled substances and in suppressing the misuse and abuse of controlled substances. To this end he or she may:
         (1) arrange for the exchange of information among
    
governmental officials concerning the use, misuse and abuse of controlled substances;
        (2) coordinate and cooperate in training programs
    
concerning controlled substance law enforcement at local and State levels;
        (3) cooperate with the federal Drug Enforcement
    
Administration or its successor agency; and
        (4) conduct programs of eradication aimed at
    
destroying wild illicit growth of plant species from which controlled substances may be extracted.
    (b) Results, information, and evidence received from the Drug Enforcement Administration relating to the regulatory functions of this Act, including results of inspections conducted by it may be relied and acted upon by the Director and the Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation in the exercise of their regulatory functions under this Act.
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 570/504

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
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