820 ILCS 206/60: Department powers.

(a) The Department shall make, adopt, and enforce reasonable rules relating to the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Act, including the issuance of employment certificates authorized under this Act, as may be deemed expedient. The rules shall be designed to protect the health, safety, welfare, and education of minors and to ensure that the conditions under which minors are employed, allowed, or permitted to work shall not impair their health, welfare, development, or education.

(b) In order to promote uniformity and efficiency of issuance, the Department shall, in consultation with the State Superintendent of Education, formulate the forms on which certificates shall be issued and also forms needed in connection with the issuance, and it shall supply the forms to the school issuing officers.