- Official section
- National VI.A.4 and Illinois: Other brokerage relationships
- Broker weight
- 13% of the national broker portion
- Expected scored items
- Agency accounts for about 13 of 100 national items
Illinois exam glossary
Transaction broker
Transaction broker is a jurisdiction word, not a universal job title. In one state it may describe a licensed neutral relationship with a detailed statute. In Illinois it is the wrong relationship answer. The useful exam habit is to stop at the state line, identify who is represented, and choose the disclosure and duty package that the governing law actually permits.
Last updated: August 1, 2026
What does this exam area cover?
Short answer: A transaction broker is a statutory non-agent relationship available in some jurisdictions, where a licensee assists a deal without fiduciary advocacy for either side. Illinois prohibits licensees from using transaction-broker or facilitator relationships. Illinois instead starts with designated agency while a licensee works with a consumer unless a written agreement provides a different lawful relationship. A licensee may represent one client and assist an unrepresented customer after timely no-agency notice, or may act as a properly consented dual agent. Neutral language cannot erase those duties.
This guide follows the PSI national and Illinois Candidate Information Booklet effective June 24, 2026, including the Illinois outline's express transaction-broker and facilitator prohibition, current 225 ILCS 454/1-10 and Sections 15-10, 15-15, 15-25, 15-35, 15-40, 15-45, 15-50, and 15-55, and current 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.740, 1450.770, and 1450.775. Sources were checked through August 1, 2026. Other states use different names, consent rules, minimum duties, and conversion procedures. Escrow agents, title companies, attorneys, mediators, auctioneers, property managers, and transaction coordinators have separate roles that should not be mislabeled.
What is on the official outline?
- Topic
- Define the national model
- What to know
- transaction broker, facilitator, non-agent, neutral assistance, statutory relationship, no fiduciary advocacy, one party, both parties, disclosure, limited confidentiality, duties, and state authorization
- Best exam move
- Accept the role only when the question's jurisdiction authorizes and defines it.
- Topic
- Find the jurisdiction
- What to know
- national portion, Illinois portion, named state, statute, fact pattern, general principle, state exception, candidate outline, terminology, and governing law
- Best exam move
- Do not carry another state's relationship into an Illinois question.
- Topic
- Apply the Illinois prohibition
- What to know
- transaction broker, transactional broker, facilitator, neutral middle, no representation, prohibited relationship, Article 15, current PSI outline, role label, and exam rejection
- Best exam move
- Eliminate the transaction-broker or facilitator choice in an Illinois relationship question.
- Topic
- Start with designated agency
- What to know
- working with consumer, considered representing, designated agent, sponsoring broker, written agreement, different relationship, client, seller, landlord, buyer, tenant, and disclosure
- Best exam move
- Use Section 15-10's starting point before classifying anyone as unrepresented.
- Topic
- Use seller or landlord agency
- What to know
- listing agreement, owner client, designated agent, best interest, acceptable terms, offers, lawful instructions, confidentiality, accounting, care, customer, and no-agency notice
- Best exam move
- Keep loyalty with the owner when assisting an unrepresented buyer or tenant.
- Topic
- Use buyer or tenant agency
- What to know
- buyer agreement, tenant agreement, designated agent, search, showing, offer, negotiation, client strategy, compensation, acceptable terms, confidentiality, and listing-side customer
- Best exam move
- Identify the written buyer or tenant relationship instead of calling both sides neutral.
- Topic
- Use the customer relationship
- What to know
- unrepresented consumer, customer, no advocacy, written no-agency notice, prevent secrets, offer preparation, honesty, false information, known latent physical fact, and independent representation
- Best exam move
- A customer is unrepresented by that licensee, not represented neutrally by a transaction broker.
- Topic
- Use dual agency correctly
- What to know
- same licensee, both sides, informed written consent, all clients, prior disclosure, transaction confirmation, limited negotiation, confidential price, motivation, withdrawal, and ownership prohibition
- Best exam move
- If one Illinois licensee represents both sides, apply Section 15-45 rather than facilitator language.
- Topic
- Separate same-firm designated agents
- What to know
- one sponsoring broker, seller agent, buyer agent, different designated agents, exclusion of affiliates, confidential information, same office, same team, dual agency test, and supervision
- Best exam move
- Two opposing designated agents in one firm are not neutral transaction brokers and are not automatically dual agents.
- Topic
- Separate customer assistance
- What to know
- factual information, approved form, objective explanation, document delivery, offer transmission, showing, scheduling, status, public record, expert referral, no strategy, and no legal interpretation
- Best exam move
- Permitted help does not create transaction brokerage or customer advocacy.
- Topic
- Separate transaction coordination
- What to know
- job function, deadline tracking, document routing, signature status, scheduling, closing checklist, file review, licensed coordinator, unlicensed assistant, sponsoring broker, and agency unchanged
- Best exam move
- A coordinator title describes work, not the legal relationship with consumers.
- Topic
- Apply unlicensed-assistant limits
- What to know
- clerical work, supervision, form delivery, scheduling, data entry, advertising preparation, no showing, no negotiation, no contract interpretation, no listing answers, and license required
- Best exam move
- Do not turn permitted clerical acts into a neutral licensed-service role.
- Topic
- Separate ministerial acts
- What to know
- mechanical task, factual completion, calculation, delivery, scheduling, administrative act, advocacy, discretion, negotiation, advice, interpretation, former exception, and current law
- Best exam move
- A ministerial task does not itself define or erase the underlying agency relationship.
- Topic
- Follow compensation correctly
- What to know
- seller payment, buyer payment, cooperating broker, referral, commission, flat fee, bonus, source, promise, agency not determined, disclosure, and written agreement
- Best exam move
- Use payment terms for compensation questions, never as proof of a neutral relationship.
- Topic
- Protect confidential information
- What to know
- client motivation, maximum price, minimum price, urgency, financing, business plan, customer secret, timely no-agency warning, permission, legal disclosure, and records
- Best exam move
- Warn customers before secrets and protect client information according to the actual relationship.
- Topic
- Present offers lawfully
- What to know
- receive, deliver, present, prepare, counteroffer, communicate, negotiate, client direction, customer assistance, timely action, waiver, confidentiality, and documentation
- Best exam move
- Offer handling can be a client duty or permitted assistance without creating transaction brokerage.
- Topic
- Handle relationship change
- What to know
- customer becomes client, buyer agreement, new designation, listing agent, dual agency, informed consent, transaction confirmation, reassignment, referral, withdrawal, timing, and documentation
- Best exam move
- Complete the lawful new relationship before providing the advocacy that belongs to it.
- Topic
- Avoid undisclosed dual conduct
- What to know
- advice to both, negotiation strategy, loyalty conflict, both sides rely, neutral claim, no consent, confidential information, seller client, buyer client, discipline, and withdrawal
- Best exam move
- Calling conduct neutral does not cure representation of both sides without consent.
- Topic
- Keep the record
- What to know
- brokerage agreement, designation, no-agency notice, dual consent, confirmation, customer communications, offers, tasks, license status, supervision, compensation, disclosure, and five-year file
- Best exam move
- Make the actual relationship and every transition provable.
- Topic
- Use exam jurisdiction cues
- What to know
- national definition, state-specific prohibition, authorized non-agent, statutory duty list, Illinois customer, designated agency, facilitator distractor, dual agency, compensation distractor, and best answer
- Best exam move
- Answer the model described, then apply the Illinois override when Illinois is named.
Which distinctions produce the most mistakes?
- Terms
- Transaction broker vs. agent
- Difference
- A transaction broker in an authorizing state represents neither side as agent. An agent represents a client and owes that jurisdiction's client duties.
- Question cue
- Neutral statutory help versus representation.
- Terms
- Transaction broker vs. dual agent
- Difference
- A transaction broker represents neither party. A dual agent represents both parties with required consent and restricted advocacy.
- Question cue
- No agency versus two-sided agency.
- Terms
- Transaction broker vs. customer
- Difference
- Transaction broker is a licensee role authorized elsewhere. An Illinois customer is a consumer not represented by the licensee.
- Question cue
- Non-agent licensee role versus consumer status.
- Terms
- Facilitator vs. designated agent
- Difference
- A facilitator label suggests no advocacy. An Illinois designated agent is the named legal agent of a represented client.
- Question cue
- Neutral label versus client representative.
- Terms
- Transaction coordinator vs. transaction broker
- Difference
- Coordinator is commonly an administrative position. Transaction broker is a legal consumer relationship in states that enact it.
- Question cue
- Job function versus agency classification.
- Terms
- Ministerial act vs. agency relationship
- Difference
- A ministerial act is a mechanical task with limited discretion. Agency is the continuing legal relationship in which a licensee represents a consumer.
- Question cue
- One task versus full relationship.
- Terms
- No-agency notice vs. transaction-broker disclosure
- Difference
- Illinois no-agency notice says that licensee does not represent the customer. Transaction-broker disclosure in another state establishes that state's non-agent role and duties.
- Question cue
- Illinois customer warning versus foreign statutory role.
- Terms
- Same firm vs. same agent
- Difference
- Different designated agents in one firm can represent opposing clients. The same licensee representing both sides creates the dual-agency issue.
- Question cue
- Shared sponsor versus shared representative.
- Terms
- Factual help vs. advocacy
- Difference
- Factual help explains mechanics or transmits information. Advocacy recommends strategy to advance a represented client's interests.
- Question cue
- Process assistance versus negotiating loyalty.
- Terms
- Compensation vs. agency
- Difference
- Compensation is how services are paid. Agency is whom the licensee represents and is not determined by payment source.
- Question cue
- Money flow versus duty flow.
- Terms
- Unlicensed assistant vs. licensed broker
- Difference
- An assistant performs only rule-permitted clerical tasks. A broker may perform licensed activity through the sponsoring-broker structure.
- Question cue
- Administrative support versus licensed service.
- Terms
- National model vs. Illinois rule
- Difference
- The national exam can test transaction brokerage generally. The Illinois state portion requires rejection of transaction-broker and facilitator relationships.
- Question cue
- General availability versus state prohibition.
The S-T-A-T-E check
- State: identify the named jurisdiction, exam portion, statutory vocabulary, and whether transaction brokerage is authorized, required, optional, or prohibited there.
- Type of relationship: classify designated seller, landlord, buyer, or tenant agency, customer with no-agency notice, consented dual agency, or another lawfully defined model.
- Actual work: separate advocacy, negotiation, advice, showing, factual form help, document delivery, scheduling, escrow, administrative coordination, and tasks requiring a license.
- Timing and writings: find brokerage agreements, designated-agent disclosure, no-agency notice before secrets, dual consent before action, transaction confirmation, amendments, and retention.
- Ethics and duties: assign loyalty, confidentiality, best interest, honesty, false-information protection, known latent facts, fair housing, compensation disclosure, and supervision.
- Fact pattern
- Agent represents seller
- Correct Illinois role
- Seller designated agent
- Wrong shortcut
- Neutral broker
- Fact pattern
- Seller agent helps buyer
- Correct Illinois role
- Buyer is disclosed customer
- Wrong shortcut
- Buyer co-client
- Fact pattern
- Agent represents buyer
- Correct Illinois role
- Buyer designated agent
- Wrong shortcut
- Seller subagent
- Fact pattern
- Different same-firm agents
- Correct Illinois role
- Separate designated agency
- Wrong shortcut
- Automatic dual agent
- Fact pattern
- One agent represents both
- Correct Illinois role
- Consented dual agent
- Wrong shortcut
- Facilitator
- Fact pattern
- Clerical deadline tracker
- Correct Illinois role
- Coordinator under actual role
- Wrong shortcut
- Transaction broker
How do the rules work in scenarios?
National authorized transaction broker
Scenario: A national question states that State X authorizes transaction brokerage and lists statutory duties of honesty, accounting, offer presentation, and limited confidentiality without agency representation.
- The jurisdiction expressly authorizes the model.
- The licensee represents neither party as agent.
- The stated statutory duties control.
Answer: Apply State X's transaction-broker rules for that national question.
Illinois neutral-facilitator proposal
Scenario: An Illinois licensee proposes to advise both seller and buyer while representing neither, calls the role facilitator, and plans to skip agency and dual-agency paperwork.
- The Illinois outline rejects facilitator and transaction-broker relationships.
- Advice to both can create conflicting advocacy.
- A label cannot bypass Article 15.
Answer: The proposed relationship is not permitted in Illinois.
Listing agent helps buyer customer
Scenario: An Illinois listing agent gives a buyer timely written no-agency notice, shares accurate public facts, explains the mechanics of an approved form, and transmits the offer to the seller.
- The seller remains the client.
- The buyer is an unrepresented customer.
- Factual assistance does not create transaction brokerage.
Answer: This can be lawful seller agency with customer assistance.
Customer becomes buyer client
Scenario: A listing agent's buyer customer asks that same agent for buyer-side price strategy. Before giving it, the brokerage completes a buyer agreement and all clients provide informed written dual consent and later confirmation.
- Strategic advice is buyer representation, not neutral form help.
- The relationship changes to disclosed dual agency.
- The agent remains subject to dual-agent limits.
Answer: The lawful classification is dual agency, not transaction brokerage.
Two agents under one sponsor
Scenario: One sponsored licensee is designated for the seller and another for the buyer. Their sponsoring broker protects each client's confidential information.
- Each client has a different legal agent.
- Shared firm affiliation does not make the agents neutral.
- Dual agency follows the designated agent, not firm identity alone.
Answer: This is opposite-side designated agency within one brokerage.
Unlicensed transaction coordinator
Scenario: An unlicensed coordinator schedules inspection and closing appointments, tracks receipt of signatures, and routes documents under supervision, but does not show, negotiate, advise, or interpret contracts.
- The tasks are administrative on the stated facts.
- The coordinator is not representing consumers.
- The underlying designated-agency relationships remain unchanged.
Answer: The title does not make the coordinator a transaction broker.
Coordinator crosses into negotiation
Scenario: An unlicensed coordinator tells the seller how to counter, advises the buyer to waive inspection, and interprets the financing contingency.
- The work involves negotiation and contract interpretation.
- Rule 1450.740 does not permit those tasks for an unlicensed assistant.
- Calling the work facilitation changes nothing.
Answer: The coordinator exceeded permitted unlicensed activity.
What are the common exam traps?
- Trap
- Assuming every state permits transaction brokers
- Correction
- Find the jurisdiction and its statute before using the relationship.
- Trap
- Using transaction broker in Illinois
- Correction
- Reject the role and apply Article 15's lawful relationship options.
- Trap
- Calling both sides customers
- Correction
- Identify the represented client and the properly disclosed unrepresented customer.
- Trap
- Calling customer assistance neutrality
- Correction
- The licensee can assist mechanically while remaining loyal to the client.
- Trap
- Equating facilitator and dual agent
- Correction
- Dual agency is representation of both sides and needs all statutory consents.
- Trap
- Making same-firm agents neutral
- Correction
- Different designated agents can advocate for opposing clients within one firm.
- Trap
- Treating transaction coordinator as legal status
- Correction
- Analyze the coordinator's license and actual tasks; the title does not define consumer agency.
- Trap
- Letting unlicensed staff negotiate
- Correction
- Rule 1450.740 restricts assistants to permitted administrative work.
- Trap
- Using ministerial tasks to erase agency
- Correction
- A mechanical act does not change the existing client relationship.
- Trap
- Skipping no-agency notice
- Correction
- Warn the customer in writing before secrets and never later than offer preparation.
- Trap
- Giving strategy before relationship change
- Correction
- Complete the buyer agreement and any dual-consent process before buyer advocacy.
- Trap
- Following compensation source
- Correction
- Payment does not determine agency or create transaction brokerage.
- Trap
- Assuming neutral means no duties
- Correction
- Even in authorizing states, transaction brokers have statutory duties; Illinois roles also carry duties.
- Trap
- Using another state's disclosure form
- Correction
- Use the Illinois relationship and writings the current Act requires.
- Trap
- Ignoring exam portion
- Correction
- Use general relationship law nationally and the Illinois prohibition on the state portion.
Can you answer these original practice questions?
These questions are original study items aligned to the published outline. They are not copied, recalled, or predicted PSI questions.
1. What is a transaction broker in a state that authorizes the role?
- A statutory non-agent who assists a transaction
- Always a seller's fiduciary
- Always a dual agent
- An unlicensed home inspector
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A statutory non-agent who assists a transaction
The authorizing state's statute defines duties and disclosure.
2. May an Illinois licensee act as a transaction broker?
- No
- Yes
- Only for cash
- Only in leasing
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
The current Illinois outline expressly tests the prohibition.
3. What is Illinois' starting relationship while a licensee works with a consumer?
- Designated agency unless a written agreement provides a different relationship
- Automatic transaction brokerage
- Automatic subagency
- No legal relationship
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Designated agency unless a written agreement provides a different relationship
Section 15-10 supplies that framework.
4. Can a listing agent assist an unrepresented buyer customer?
- Yes
- No
- Only as transaction broker
- Only after closing
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Yes
The listing agent stays loyal to the seller and gives timely written no-agency notice.
5. Is an Illinois customer represented neutrally by the licensee?
- No
- Yes
- Only at showings
- Only if seller pays
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
A customer is a consumer not represented by that licensee.
6. What relationship applies when one Illinois licensee represents both sides?
- Dual agency with required consent
- Transaction brokerage
- Subagency through MLS
- No-agency customer status for both
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Dual agency with required consent
Every client must consent in writing and later confirm for the transaction.
7. Does the title transaction coordinator create transaction-broker status?
- No
- Yes
- Only if unlicensed
- Only by email
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
Analyze license status, actual tasks, supervision, and underlying agency.
8. May an unlicensed assistant interpret a purchase contract?
- No
- Yes
- Only for a customer
- Only after inspection
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
Rule 1450.740 bars contract interpretation by unlicensed assistants.
9. Does compensation determine transaction-broker status?
- No
- Yes
- Only in sales
- Only in leases
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
Section 15-40 says compensation does not determine agency.
10. Why can the national exam still test transaction brokers?
- Other jurisdictions authorize the relationship
- Illinois secretly authorizes it
- It is an appraisal term
- It is a deed type
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Other jurisdictions authorize the relationship
Apply the jurisdiction specified in the question.
How should you study this area?
- Session
- Session 1
- Focus
- Master jurisdiction switching
- Proof you are ready
- Classify 40 national, Illinois, authorizing-state, transaction-broker, facilitator, non-agent, designated-agent, customer, and dual-agent prompts.
- Session
- Session 2
- Focus
- Map Illinois replacements
- Proof you are ready
- Audit 35 seller, landlord, buyer, tenant, customer, no-agency, same-firm designation, dual agency, written-different-relationship, and compensation facts.
- Session
- Session 3
- Focus
- Separate assistance and advocacy
- Proof you are ready
- Review 35 factual-information, showing, form-help, delivery, scheduling, offer, negotiation, strategy, interpretation, confidentiality, and expert-referral scenarios.
- Session
- Session 4
- Focus
- Control coordinators and assistants
- Proof you are ready
- Audit 30 licensed-coordinator, unlicensed-assistant, supervision, clerical, showing, solicitation, negotiation, contract explanation, advertising, and file-task questions.
- Session
- Session 5
- Focus
- Master relationship changes
- Proof you are ready
- Solve 30 customer-to-client, buyer agreement, designation, dual consent, confirmation, referral, withdrawal, disclosure timing, offer preparation, and record scenarios.
- Session
- Session 6
- Focus
- Run S-T-A-T-E
- Proof you are ready
- Audit two complete relationship files, score at least 90 percent, and state jurisdiction, type, work, writings, and duties aloud.
Do not count recognition as mastery. Close the notes and explain the rule, apply it to a new fact pattern, and identify why each distractor fails.
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Questions students ask about Transaction Broker: Illinois Real Estate Exam Guide
What is a transaction broker in real estate?
In jurisdictions that authorize the role, a transaction broker is a licensed non-agent who assists one or both parties with a real estate transaction without providing traditional fiduciary representation to either side. Duties commonly include honest dealing, presenting offers, accounting, reasonable care, and limited confidentiality, but the exact role exists only because that jurisdiction's statute recognizes it.
Is a transaction broker allowed in Illinois?
No. The current PSI Illinois outline expressly tests that transaction-broker and facilitator relationships are prohibited. Illinois Article 15 uses designated agency as the starting relationship while a licensee works with a consumer unless a written sponsoring-broker agreement provides something different. A licensee cannot bypass that framework by declaring both sides neutral customers under a transaction-broker label.
What Illinois relationships should replace the transaction-broker answer?
Use the relationship the facts lawfully create: designated seller or landlord agency, designated buyer or tenant agency, properly consented dual agency by one licensee, or a client relationship on one side with a timely disclosed customer on the other. Each path has its own writing, timing, duties, confidentiality, and conflict rules. A neutral facilitator label is not another Illinois option.
Can an Illinois listing agent help an unrepresented buyer?
Yes. The listing agent can continue representing the seller while providing lawful factual and mechanical assistance to a buyer customer. The buyer must receive written no-agency notice early enough to prevent confidential disclosure and never later than offer preparation. The agent remains loyal to the seller, treats the buyer honestly, avoids false information, discloses covered known latent physical facts, and does not become the buyer's advocate.
Is an Illinois customer the same as a transaction-broker customer?
No. Under Illinois law, a customer is simply a consumer whom that licensee does not represent. Usually the licensee represents a client on the other side and gives written no-agency notice to the customer. In a transaction-broker state, the licensed non-agent role and its duties come from that state's separate statute. Similar assistance does not make the legal relationships interchangeable.
Is a transaction broker the same as a dual agent?
No. A transaction broker in a state that permits the role represents neither side as agent. A dual agent represents both buyer and seller, or both landlord and tenant, in the same transaction. Illinois dual agency requires informed written consent from all clients before dual representation and transaction-specific written confirmation, with statutory limits on advocacy and confidential information.
Is a transaction coordinator an Illinois transaction broker?
Not merely because of the title. Transaction coordinator commonly describes an administrative job handling deadlines, signatures, document routing, scheduling, or file completion under a sponsoring broker's system. That title does not create a legal transaction-broker relationship or change whom the designated agent represents. The coordinator's license status and actual tasks determine what work is permitted.
Can an unlicensed assistant serve as a neutral transaction facilitator?
No. Rule 1450.740 permits specified clerical or administrative activities under supervision but bars unlicensed assistants from negotiating, showing property, answering listing questions beyond approved information, interpreting contracts, or performing other licensed activity. Calling the person a coordinator or facilitator does not expand the rule.
Does payment make an Illinois licensee a transaction broker?
No. Section 15-40 says compensation does not determine agency. Payment by a seller, buyer, listing brokerage, cooperating brokerage, landlord, or tenant cannot create a prohibited neutral role or erase a designated relationship. Find the written agreement, designation, disclosures, consents, and actual conduct.
Why does the national exam outline mention transaction brokers?
The national portion tests relationship models used across many states. A national question may describe a jurisdiction that authorizes transaction brokerage and provide its duties. The Illinois state portion asks you to apply Illinois law, which rejects that relationship. Read the jurisdiction cue before selecting an answer.
Are these official PSI questions or legal advice?
No. The practice questions are original. The PSI Illinois outline, current Illinois statutes, and current administrative rules were checked through August 1, 2026. This is exam education, not legal, agency, brokerage, dual-agency, disclosure, compensation, fair-housing, staffing, or transaction advice. A live role requires the brokerage agreements, designations, agency and no-agency notices, dual consents, job duties, license status, compensation facts, sponsoring-broker procedures, and qualified counsel for disputed relationships.
Primary sources
- PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet effective June 24, 2026, including transaction-broker and facilitator prohibition
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/1-10 agency, client, customer, designated-agency, dual-agency, and licensed-activity definitions
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-10 relationships between licensees and consumers
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-15 duties of licensees representing clients
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-25 duties in relationships with customers
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-35 designated-agency and no-agency disclosure timing
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-40 compensation does not determine agency
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-45 dual-agency consent and confirmation
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-50 written agreements and designated-agent structure
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-55 no automatic MLS subagency
- Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.740 permitted and prohibited unlicensed-assistant tasks
- Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.770, amended July 13, 2026
- Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.775 written transaction documents
The current official outline controls the tested scope. Statutes, regulations, and official agency materials control when a general study rule and a jurisdiction-specific rule differ.
Editorial status
Checked against primary sources
The Pass Illinois editorial team last checked this guide on August 1, 2026. Every practice question is an original study item, and the source links above let you verify the rules that support the lesson.