Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 1215 — Park Annuity and Benefit Fund Civil Service Act.

Short title

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

All offices and places of employment other than those specifically exempted by the provisions of section 13 of this Act, in any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund System created under the provisions of Article 12 of the "Illinois Pension Code" as the same may from time to time be a…

In any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund System to which this Act is or shall become applicable, there is hereby created and established a Civil Service Board to consist of three persons to be selected in the manner following: The Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retir…

The Civil Service Board shall within ninety days after this act goes into effect, classify all offices and places of employment in said Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund system with reference to the duties thereof and for the purpose of establishing grades and of fixing and mainta…

In any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund system created under the provisions of Article 12 of the "Illinois Pension Code" as the same may from time to time be amended, which is now or which hereafter may become subject to the provisions of this Act, all persons who, at the time wh…

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 Boa…

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 Employees' and Ret…

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 for at least one year prior to the beginning date of an examination for an office or place in said classified service and shall be subjected to examination, whic…

Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination and of the duties and nature of the position sought to be filled shall be given by the Civil Service Board by a publication two (2) weeks preceding such examination in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which sa…

From the return or report of examiners or from the examinations made by the Civil Service Board the secretary of the Civil Service Board shall prepare a register for each grade or class of position in the classified service of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of the persons w…

The Civil Service Board 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 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 w…

Whenever a position classified under this Act is to be filled the appointing officer shall make requisition upon said civil service board, and said 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…

The Civil Service 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 1963, p. 138.)

The following offices and places of employment, insofar as there are or may be such, in such Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund system, shall not be included within the classified civil service: The members of the Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employ…

No officer or employee in the classified civil service of any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund shall be removed, discharged, demoted to an office or place of employment next lower in the line of promotion or suspended for a period of more than thirty (30) days, except for cause u…

Notice in writing shall be given by the appointing officer to said Civil Service 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 (10) days of the date thereof and a record of t…

The Civil Service 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 Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and…

Said Board shall on or before the fifteenth (15th) day of January of each year make to the Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund a report showing its own action, the rules in force, the practical effects thereof and any suggestions it may approve for the more…

The Civil Service Board shall select one of its own members to act as secretary

The Civil Service Board shall select one of its own members to act as secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the Civil Service Board, preserve all records and perform such other duties as the Board may direct. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 418.)

All officers and trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund shall aid the Civil Service 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 the premises occupied by the Park Emp…

A sufficient sum of money shall be provided each year by the Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund to carry out the provisions of this Act; and said trustees shall allow to said Civil Service Board such clerical help and such sums to operate and maintain said…

No person or officer shall willfully or corruptly, by himself, or in cooperation with any one or more persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his or her right of examination and employment hereunder; or corruptly or falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the examination or proper standing of…

No officer or employee shall solicit, orally or in writing, or give or receive or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or giving or receiving any assessment, subscription or contribution from any member of the classified civil service for any party or political purpose whatever. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 138.)

No person shall solicit, orally or in writing, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, contribution, or payment for any party or political purpose whatever from any officer or employee in the classified civil service. (Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)

No person shall in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund, solicit orally or by written communication delivered therein or in any other manner, or receive any contribution of money, or…