70 ILCS 1210/ Park System Civil Service Act.
(70 ILCS 1210/0.01) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 77m) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park System Civil Service Act. (Source: P.A. 86‑1324.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/1) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 78) Sec. 1. Application. All offices and places of employment, other than those specifically exempted by the provisions of section 11 of this Act, in any park district (including under this designation any one or more towns having under Acts adopted by such town or towns, corporate authorities authorized by law to levy taxes for the maintenance of a public park or public parks) having 500,000 or more inhabitants residing within its territorial limits shall be classified and filled in the manner hereinafter provided for and not otherwise. Whenever any park district not now containing within its territorial limits 500,000 or more inhabitants shall have attained such number of inhabitants as shown by any census hereafter taken, thereupon this Act shall become applicable to such park district on the first day of July next succeeding the completion of the taking of such census. (Source: P.A. 93‑220, eff. 7‑18‑03.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/2) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 79) Sec. 2. In any park district to which this Act is or shall become applicable, there is hereby created and established a civil service board, hereinafter called the board, to consist of 3 persons to be selected in the manner following: The governing authority or body of such park district, hereinafter called the park commissioners, shall within 30 days after this Act becomes applicable, and thereafter whenever a vacancy occurs, appoint a superintendent of employment, for a term of 6 years from the date of his or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified, which said superintendent of employment shall be under the direction and supervision of the park commissioners (except that with respect to the Chicago Park District the superintendent of employment shall be appointed, shall serve a term, if any, and shall be directed and supervised as provided in "An Act in relation to the creation, maintenance, operation and improvement of the Chicago Park District", approved July 10, 1933, as now or hereafter amended), and 2 park commissioners or members of such governing authority, each for a term of 2 years from the date of his or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service board of such park district. The superintendent of employment shall be paid a salary of not less than $2,400 a year, and shall devote his or her entire and exclusive time and attention to the duties pertaining to the office of superintendent and not engage in any other employment. The park commissioners may fix the salary of each of the other members of the civil service board at such sum, not to exceed $500 a year, as they may deem proper. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum. No member of the civil service board shall be removed except for palpable incompetence, or malfeasance in office upon written charges filed by or at the direction of the park commissioners and heard before the park commissioners upon 10 days written notice to the member. The commission shall hear and determine the charges and its findings shall be final and if such charges shall be sustained, the member of the civil service board so charged, shall be forthwith removed from office. A final decision of the commission shall be subject to review by the circuit court pursuant to the Administrative Review Law. If no appeal is taken from a final decision sustaining the charges, or if such a final decision is upheld on review, the park commission shall proceed within 30 days to fill the vacancy created by such removal. (Source: P.A. 85‑1411.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/3) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 80) Sec. 3. The superintendent of employment shall, with the consent and approval of said Civil Service Board, classify within ninety days after this Act goes into effect, all offices and places of employment in said park district with reference to the duties thereof for the purpose of establishing grades, and of fixing and maintaining standards of examinations hereinafter provided for. The offices and places so classified shall constitute the classified civil service of such park districts, and no appointments, promotions, transfers, reductions in grade or removal therefrom shall be made except under and according to the provisions of this Act and of the rules hereinafter mentioned. As a part of such classified civil service, all officers and employees under said board, except special examiners, shall be included. The superintendent of employment shall ascertain and record the duties of each office and place in the classified civil service and designate the grade of each position. Each grade shall comprise offices and places having substantially similar duties. He shall also record the lines of promotion from each lower grade to a higher grade wherever the experience derived in the performance of the duties of such lower grade tends to qualify for the performance of duty in such higher grade. The Civil Service Board shall by rule prescribe standards of efficiency for each grade and for examinations of candidates for appointment thereto. For the purpose of establishing standards as bases for uniformity of pay and title for all offices and places of employment classified in the same grade, it shall be the duty of the Civil Service Board to prescribe by rule the maximum and minimum rate of pay for each grade and the title thereof for the guidance of the commissioners in determining the actual pay for each office or place of employment and to report to the park commissioners annually and at such other times as they may direct, the name and address of each officer and employee paid more than maximum or less than the minimum rate of pay prescribed for his grade or designated by a title other than that prescribed for his grade by the board. It shall be the duty of the park commissioners, within thirty days after receiving such report, to change the pay or title of any officer or employee so reported out of grade to conform to the standards of title and pay prescribed by the board, for the guidance of the commissioners, for the grade in which the position held by such officer or employee is classified. The board shall standardize employment in each grade and make and keep a record of the relative efficiency of each officer and employee in the classified civil service. The board shall provide by rule methods for ascertaining and verifying the facts from which such records of relative efficiency shall be made, which shall be uniform for each grade in the classified civil service. The board shall also classify all positions of employment in respect to employees whose employment is transferred to a park district by virtue of "An Act in relation to an exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000," enacted by the 70th General Assembly, and such positions of employment shall be included in the classified civil service of the park district. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1096.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/3a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 81) Sec. 3a. In any park district which is now, or which hereafter may become, subject to the provisions of this act, all persons who at the time when this act takes effect or becomes applicable, hold offices or places of employment which this act provides shall be classified, shall be included under the provisions of this act and shall become members of the classified civil service of such park district, without original examination. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/3b) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 81.1) Sec. 3b. Persons transferred from the employment of a city by virtue of "An Act in relation to an exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000," enacted by the 70th General Assembly, shall, without examination, be assigned to positions in the classified civil service of the park district, so far as may be practicable, having duties and responsibilities, equivalent to the employment from which they were transferred. As provided in said Act, the eligible registers and re‑employment registers of the civil service commission of the city as to positions and persons so transferred shall remain in force and effect as eligible and re‑employment registers of the Civil Service Board of the park district, subject to the authority of the Board, in its discretion, to cancel such eligible registers, or portions thereof, as have been in force more than two years. Employees so transferred shall have the same standing, grade, class or rank which they held in the classified service of the city. For the purpose of determining seniority in class, grade or rank, each employee shall be certified with the time served by him in the employment held by him on the date of such transfer. If this Act exempts from its provisions any position held by an employee transferred under said Act of the 70th General Assembly to the park district, the employee so transferred shall be given a position in the classified civil service as nearly comparable in responsibilities and duties to his former employment as it may be possible to approximate. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1096.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/4) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 82) Sec. 4. The Civil Service Board shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this act, and for examinations, appointments, transfers and removals and for maintaining and keeping records of the efficiency of officers and employees, and groups of officers and employees, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and said board may from time to time make changes in such rules. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/5) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 83) Sec. 5. All rules made as herein provided, and all changes therein, shall forthwith be printed for distribution by the Civil Service Board and it shall give notice of the places where copies of said rules may be obtained, by publication in one or more daily newspapers published in the county in which said park district is situated, and in each such publication shall specify the date when said rules shall go into operation. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 440.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/6) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 84) Sec. 6. All applicants for offices or places in said classified civil service shall be citizens of the United States of America and residents of the State of Illinois and shall be subjected to examination, which shall be public and competitive with limitations specified in the rules of the board as to residence, age, sex, health, habits, moral character and qualifications to perform the duties of the office or place to be filled, which qualifications shall be prescribed in advance of such examination. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed, and may include tests of physical qualifications and health and, when appropriate, of manual skill. No question in any examination shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations. The superintendent of employment shall control all examinations, and may, whenever an examination is to take place, designate a suitable number of persons to be special examiners; and it shall be the duty of such special examiners to conduct such examinations as the superintendent of employment may direct, and to make return and report thereof to him; and he may at any time substitute any other person in the place of any one so selected; and he may himself, at any time, act as such special examiner and without appointing other special examiners. The board shall, with reference to maintaining eligible registers, proceed by rule to divide the entire service into two divisions; in one of these divisions shall be included all offices and places of employment in the classified service whereto certification is infrequent; in the other shall be included all other offices and places in the classified service. Such rule shall distinctly designate in which division each of said offices or places falls; and as to all offices and places comprised under the first division above mentioned, examination shall be held only when a vacancy exists, and within sixty days thereafter, and an eligible list or register, so prepared, shall be in force only until permanent appointment has been made from such list or register; and as to all other offices and places said board shall, by rule, provide for and said superintendent of employment shall hold a sufficient number of examinations to provide a sufficient number of eligibles on the register for each grade of position in the classified civil service, and if any place in the classified civil service shall become vacant, to which there is no person eligible for appointment, he shall immediately hold an examination for such position and repeat the same, if necessary, until a vacancy is filled in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Said board may, in its discretion, cancel such portion of any such register as has been in force for more than two years, but not while any vacancy exists for the filling of which a requisition has been made upon the civil service board, and which can be filled from said register. Examinations for an eligible list for each position in the classified service above mentioned shall be held once in two years, unless in the discretion of the board, such examinations are not necessary. Every applicant who desires to take any civil service examination provided for by this Act shall, at the time of making application, pay to the Park District a fee, as hereinafter provided, to defray the expenses of such examination. Such fees shall be deposited in the general fund of the Park District. Fees to be paid shall be determined from the minimum announced salary for the positions to be filled, and shall be as follows: Minimum salary of less than $1200 annually$0.50 Minimum salary of $1200 or over and less than $2000 annually1.00 Minimum salary of $2,000 or over and less than $3,000 annually2.00 Minimum salary of $3000 or more annually3.00 The provisions of this section respecting examinations and payment of examination fees shall be inapplicable to employees transferred to the employment of a park district by virtue of "An Act in relation to an exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000," enacted by the 70th General Assembly. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1096.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/7) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 85) Sec. 7. Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination and of the duties, pay and nature of the position sought to be filled shall be given by the superintendent of employment by publication for two weeks preceding such examination, in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which said park district is situated and such notice shall be posted by him in a conspicuous place in his office for two weeks before such examinations. (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 363.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/8) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 86) Sec. 8. From the return or reports of examiners, or from the examinations made by the superintendent of employment, the superintendent of employment shall prepare a register for each grade or class of position in the classified service of the park district of the persons who shall attain such minimum mark as may be fixed by the superintendent of employment for any part of such examination, and whose general average standing upon examination for such grade or class is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of said board, and who are otherwise eligible; and such persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence as determined by examination, without reference to priority of time of examination. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/8a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 86a) Sec. 8a. Any re‑employment register of persons who have been laid off but who are qualified for employment under the provisions of this Act, in any park district to which this Act applies, which re‑employment register may be or shall have been in existence at the time of the merger or consolidation of such park district with one or more other park districts or at the time of the creation of another park district which has superseded or shall supersede such park district and the duly qualified Commissioners of which new park district have assumed or shall assume and take over the powers and duties vested in and exercised by the Commissioners of such former park district, shall continue to be used by the Superintendent of Employment for the purpose of filling vacancies, but a person being upon any such re‑employment register may be appointed only to a position, the duties of which are confined to the area included in such former park district. Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the assignment of any person in the classified service after appointment to a position therein, to duty in any part of such new park district in accordance with his classification and grade. (Source: Laws 1935, p. 561.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/9) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 87) Sec. 9. The superintendent of employment shall note of record the duties (whether imposed by law, official regulation or practice) of each office or place in the classified service. The Civil Service Board shall thereupon by rule fix lines for promotion from such several offices and places to superior offices or places in all cases where, in the judgment of the board, the duties of such several positions directly tend to fit the incumbent for a superior position. In case of vacancy in superior offices or places, which cannot be filled by reinstatement, the superintendent of employment shall hold promotion examinations to fill such vacancy. Incumbents of offices or places next lower in the line so fixed shall be solely eligible for such examination, unless in the judgment of the board, to be noted in its minutes with the grounds therefor, it is for the best interests of the service that original examination for such vacancy be held. In promotion examinations, efficiency and seniority in service shall form a part of such examination, but combined shall not carry a total number of marks to exceed one‑quarter of the maximum marks attainable in such examination. All examinations for promotion shall be competitive. The method of examination, the rules governing the same, and the method of certifying shall be the same as provided for in original examination. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/10) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 88) Sec. 10. Whenever a position classified under this Act is to be filled, the appointing officer shall make requisition upon said board, and the board shall certify to him the name and address of the candidate standing highest upon the register of eligibles for said position. The appointing officer shall notify the board of each position to be filled separately and shall fill such position by the appointment of the person certified to him by said board therefor, which appointment shall be on probation for a period of not more than six months to be fixed by said rules. At any time during the period of probation, the appointing officer may, with the written approval of the civil service board, discharge a person so certified and shall forthwith notify the board in writing of such discharge. If such person is not thus discharged, his appointment shall be deemed complete. When there is no eligible list, the appointing officer may, with the authority of the superintendent of employment, make temporary appointments to remain in force only until regular appointments under the provisions of this Act can be made, and examinations to supply an eligible list therefor shall be held and an eligible list established therefrom within sixty days from the making of such appointments. In the employment of an essentially temporary and transitory nature, the appointing officer may, with the authority of said superintendent, make temporary appointments to fill a vacancy, but no such authority shall be granted for a period of more than thirty days, but it may be renewed from time to time by the superintendent. The said superintendent shall include in his annual report, and if thereto required by the park commissioners, in any special report, a statement of all temporary authorities granted or renewed during the year or period specified by the park commissioners, together with a statement of the facts in each case because of which such authority was granted. The acceptance or refusal by an eligible person of a temporary appointment shall not affect his standing on the register for permanent employment. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 440.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/10a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 89) Sec. 10a. The board may, by its rules, provide for transfers of officers and employees in the classified service from positions in one office or department to positions of the same class and grade in another office or department. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 440.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/11) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 90) Sec. 11. The following offices and places of employment, insofar as there are or may be such in such Park District, shall not be included within the classified service: Park commissioners, all elective officers, the general superintendent, one confidential clerk or secretary, the chief engineer, the general attorney, the planetarium director, the superintendent of employment and special examiners appointed by the superintendent of employment. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 2842.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/11‑a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 90a) Sec. 11‑a. In any Park District to which this act is applicable, all persons who on July 1, 1949, held the offices or places of employment of attorneys, except the general attorney, shall be included in the classified service of such Park District under the provisions of this act, as amended, and shall become members of the classified service of such Park District without original examination, and shall be classified in accordance with the provisions of this act. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 2842.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/11‑b) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 90b) Sec. 11‑b. This Act shall not apply to the Chicago Park District to the extent that it is exempted under the provisions of Section 16a of "An Act in relation to the creation, maintenance, operation and improvement of the Chicago Park District", approved July 10, 1933, as now or hereafter amended. (Source: P.A. 85‑1411.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/12) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 91) Sec. 12. No officer or employee in the classified civil service of any park district other than one who has attained retirement age, as hereinafter in this section provided, shall be removed or discharged, or suspended for a period of more than thirty days, except for cause upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. Such charges shall be investigated by or before the civil service board or by or before some officer or officers appointed by the board to conduct such investigation within thirty days from the date of suspension under such charges, if such officer or employee is suspended pending investigation of such charges. The hearing shall be public and the accused shall be entitled to call witnesses in his defense and to have the aid of counsel. The hearing may be postponed or continued with the consent of the accused. The finding and decision of the board or of such investigating officer or officers, when approved by said board, shall be final and shall be certified to the appointing officer, and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. Nothing in this Act shall limit the power of any officer to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period not exceeding thirty days. Every such suspension shall be without pay: Provided, however, that the board shall have authority to investigate every such suspension and, in case of its disapproval thereof, it shall have power to restore pay to the employee so suspended. In the course of any investigation provided for in this Act, each member of the board and any officer appointed by it shall have the power to administer oaths and shall have power to secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers. All officers and employees in the classified service of any such park district shall be automatically and by compulsion retired and dismissed from service with honor on attainment of the age of 70 years. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with voluntary retirement by an employee in the classified service at an earlier age than herein specified. It shall be the duty of the civil service board to determine, by hearing, the age of employees, if such is in question and the finding and decision of the civil service board, or its investigating officer or officers, when approved by the civil service board in such dispute shall be final. (Source: P.A. 81‑882.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/13) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 92) Sec. 13. Notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to said board of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made in such classified civil service and of all transfers, promotions, resignations or vacancies from any cause in such service within ten days of the date thereof, and a record of the same shall be kept by said commission. If, when created, such office or place is not embraced in the then existing classification, the commission shall within thirty days of the receipt of said report, classify the same and standardize the duties thereof. But no place of employment shall be deemed a newly created position, the duties of which come within the scope of standardization already fixed by the commission. When any office or place of employment is created or abolished, or the compensation attached thereto altered, the officer or board making such change shall report it in writing to said commission within ten days of the date thereof. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/14) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 93) Sec. 14. The board shall investigate the efficiency of all officers and employees and of all groups of officers and employees in the classified service and shall report to each officer, board or other authority in charge of any office or department of the park district its findings and recommendations relative to increasing efficiency and economy therein. In case the recommendations made by the board are not carried into effect within a reasonable time, or in case of a difference of opinion with reference to such findings or recommendations between the board and the officer, or authority in charge of an office or department concerned in any such findings or recommendations, the report, accompanied by a note of the relevant facts shall be transmitted to the park commissioners by the board. The superintendent of employment shall investigate the enforcement of this act and of the rules of the board, the conduct of the appointees in the classified service and the methods of administration therein, and may investigate the nature, tenure and compensation of all offices and places in the civil service of the park district. In the course of such investigation said superintendent shall have power to administer oaths and to secure by subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/15) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 94) Sec. 15. Said board shall, on or before the 15th day of January of each year, make to the park commissioners a report showing its own action, the rules in force, the practical effects thereof and any suggestions it may approve for the more effectual accomplishment of the purposes of this act. The park commissioners may require a report from said board at any time. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.) |
(70 ILCS 1210/16) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 95) Sec. 16. The board shall select one of its own members to act as secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the board, preserve all records and perform such other duties as the board may direct. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.)Contact Us | About Us | Terms | Privacy
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