Each applicant for a license shall submit, in addition to the license fee, a fee specified by the Illinois State Police for processing fingerprint based data, or other state of the art criminal identification data, which may be made payable to the State Police Services Fund and shall be remitted to the Illinois State Police for deposit into that fund. Law enforcement personnel who apply for an explosives license in order to carry out their official functions may be exempted from the criminal history background requirement provided the law enforcement agency submits documentation that the applicant has previously been subjected to a criminal history background check.
225 ILCS 210/2003