20 ILCS 5/5-700
Whenever rights, powers, and duties vested in or exercised by any officer, board, commission, institution, or department or any deputy, inspector, or subordinate officer of one of those are, by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois or by any amendments to the Code, transferred either in whole or in part to or vested in a department created by the Code or by any amendments to the Code, those rights, powers, and duties shall be vested in and shall be exercised by the department to which they are thereby transferred and not otherwise, and every act done in the exercise of those rights, powers, and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the former officer, board, commission, institution, or department or any deputy, inspector, or subordinate officer of any of those.
Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and duties and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of those rights, powers, and duties as if those rights, powers, and duties were exercised by the officer, board, commission, department, or institution or deputy, inspector, or subordinate of any of those designated in the respective laws that are to be administered by departments created by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois or by any amendments to the Code. Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for failure to perform any such obligation or duty or for doing a prohibited act as if the obligation or duty arose from, or the act were prohibited in, the exercise of the right, power, or duty by the officer, board, commission, department, or institution or deputy, inspector, or subordinate of any of those designated in the respective laws that are to be administered by departments created by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois or by any amendments to the Code. Every officer and employee shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee whose powers or duties devolved upon the officer or employee under the Code or under any amendments to the Code.
All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers, and duties so transferred to or vested in a department created by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois or by any amendments to the Code shall be delivered and transferred to the department succeeding to those rights, powers, and duties.
20 ILCS 5/5-700