Illinois · statute · 70 ILCS 2605 · 299 active provisions
The corporate limits of the Sanitary District of Chicago, heretofore organized under the provisions of this Act, within the territorial limits of Cook County, may be extended in such manner as may be provided by law to include any area of contiguous territory within the limits of said Cook County wherein the constructi…
This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)
All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this act. (Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms at the election provided by the general election law. Three trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year. Such trust…
EPA Director. The Director of the Environmental Protection Agency or his or her appointee may attend and participate in meetings of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, but he or she shall have no vote at such meetings. (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
The designation of the corporate authorities of sanitary districts organized under this Act is changed from "trustees" and "boards of trustees" to "commissioners" and "boards of commissioners". Wherever any of the terms "trustee", "trustees", or "board of trustees" is used in this Act or in any other Act to refer to th…
The commissioners elected under this Act constitute a board of commissioners for the district by which they are elected, which board of commissioners is the corporate authority of the sanitary district, and, in addition to all other powers specified in this Act, shall establish the policies and goals of the sanitary di…
The chairman of the committee on finance of the board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act may designate in writing one or more persons who shall have authority to affix his signature as chairman to any written instrument which is required to be signed by the chairman. The chairman shall send w…
The Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a State Sanitary District Observer. The term of the person first appointed shall expire on the third Monday in January, 1969. If the Senate is not in session when the first appointment is made, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment…
All offices and places of employment, other than the offices of sanitary district trustees and the offices enumerated in Section 4.13 of this Act, in the sanitary district shall be classified and filled in the manner hereinafter provided for and not otherwise. (Source: Laws 1935, p. 744.)
The person appointed as treasurer for the district pursuant to Section 4 of this Act must devote his full time to performance of the duties of that office and may hold no other position in public or private employment. The treasurer may have no financial interest, direct or indirect, in any financial institution design…
There is hereby created and established a civil service board to consist of 3 persons to be selected in the manner following: The governing authority or body of the sanitary district, hereinafter called the trustees, shall on or before January 31, 1952 appoint a civil service board of 3 members, all of whom shall be pe…
There is created a Department of Human Resources for the district, the executive officer of which is the Director of Human Resources, hereinafter in this Act called the Director. Any person appointed as the Director shall have previously served in a responsible executive capacity requiring knowledge of and experience i…
Classification of positions. The Director shall, with the consent and approval of said civil service board, classify within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, all positions in said sanitary district with reference to the duties thereof for the purpose of establishing job classifications, a…
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 the sanitary district, without original examinatio…
The director, subject to the disapproval of the civil service board as hereinafter provided, 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…
All rules made as herein provided and all changes therein shall forthwith be printed for distribution by the Director and it shall give notice of the places where said rules may be obtained, by publication in one or more daily newspapers published in the county in which said sanitary district is situated and in each su…
All applicants for offices or places in said classified civil service, except for the positions of deputy director of engineering, deputy director of monitoring and research, deputy director of maintenance and operations, assistant director of engineering, assistant director of maintenance and operations, deputy genera…
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 Director by publication for 2 weeks preceding such examination, in a daily newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which said sanita…
From the return or reports of examiners, or from the examinations which he or she has made, the Director shall prepare a register for each grade or class of positions in the classified service of the sanitary district of the persons who shall attain such minimum mark as may be fixed by the Director for any part of such…
Promotions. The Director shall note of record the duties (whether imposed by law, official regulation or practice) of each classification in the classified service, and shall thereupon by rule fix lines for promotion from lower classifications to higher classifications in all cases where, in his or her judgment, the ex…
Appointments. Whenever a position classified under this Act is to be filled, except the positions of deputy director of engineering, deputy director of monitoring and research, deputy director of maintenance and operations, assistant director of engineering, assistant director of maintenance and operations, deputy gene…
The Director may by his 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. Transfers which are in the nature of promotions shall be governed by Section 4.10 of this Act. Subj…
The following offices and places of employment, insofar as there are or may be such in the sanitary district, shall not be included within the classified civil service: All elective officers, the deputy executive director, the director of human resources, the clerk, treasurer, director of engineering, general counsel,…
No employee in the classified civil service of the sanitary district shall be involuntarily demoted or discharged except for cause, upon written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. For discharge actions, such charges shall be filed with the civil service board within 30 days from the date…