Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 1210 — Park System Civil Service Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park System Civil Service Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Application

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 t…

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 commission…

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 mainta…

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…

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…

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 bo…

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 situ…

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, heal…

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 count…

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 th…

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 on…

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 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…

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…

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.)

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 planet…

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 class…

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.)

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 he…

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…

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 eff…

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…

The board shall select one of its own members to act as secretary

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.)

All officers of the park district shall aid the board in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of the act and at any place where examinations are to be held shall allow reasonable use of public buildings for holding such examinations. The park commissioners shall cause suitable rooms to be provided for the boa…

A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by the park commissioners to carry out the provisions of this act; and park commissioners shall allow to said board such clerical help and such sums to operate and maintain said office as shall be necessary and the compensation of such clerical help and such sum…