Chapter 55 — COUNTIES

(55 ILCS 5/3-14004) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14004) Sec. 3-14004. Department of central services. The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to create and maintain a department of central services to which may be assigned such powers as the Board may deem necessary for the p…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14005) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14005) Sec. 3-14005. Budget department. The board of commissioners shall create and maintain a budget department to prepare an executive budget for the County of Cook as directed by the president. The department shall be headed by a budget…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14006) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14006) Sec. 3-14006. Creation of bureau of administration. The Board of Commissioners of Cook County shall create and maintain a bureau of administration which shall be headed by a chief administrative officer appointed by the president wi…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14007) Sec. 3-14007. Chief administrative officer. The chief administrative officer shall be a professional administrator experienced in public administration. He shall serve at the pleasure of the president and until his successor has bee…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14008) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14008) Sec. 3-14008. Powers and duties of chief administrative officer. The chief administrative officer shall be responsible for the management and direction of the bureau of administration and of any other agency, function, or matter the…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14009) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14009) Sec. 3-14009. Department of management services. The department of management services shall encompass systems and procedures, planning of data processing, administrative analysis, and related management staff services, including an…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14010) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14010) Sec. 3-14010. Department of Data Processing. The Board of Commissioners has authority to create and maintain a Department of Data Processing to which may be assigned such powers as the County Board may deem necessary for the proper …

(55 ILCS 5/3-14011) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14011) Sec. 3-14011. Civil service commission. The president of the county board shall at the first regular meeting of the first day after July, A. D. 1895, appoint three persons, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service comm…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14012) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14012) Sec. 3-14012. Removal of commissioners; vacancy. The president may, in his discretion, remove any commissioner for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The president shall, at the next regular meeting, report in w…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14013) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14013) Sec. 3-14013. Classification of offices and places. Said commissioners shall classify all the offices and places of employment in said county with reference to the examination hereinafter provided for, except those offices and place…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14014) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14014) Sec. 3-14014. Rules. Said commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Division, and for examinations, appointments and removals in accordance with its provisions, and the commission may, from time to time, make cha…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14015) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14015) Sec. 3-14015. Publication of rules and effective date. All rules made as hereinbefore provided, and all changes therein, shall forthwith be printed for distribution by said commission; and the commission shall give notice of the pla…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14016) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14016) Sec. 3-14016. Examination. of applicants. All applicants for offices or places in said classified service, except those mentioned in Section 3-14022 shall be subjected to examination, which shall be public, competitive and open to a…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14017) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14017) Sec. 3-14017. Notice of examination. Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination shall be given by the commission by publication for two weeks preceding such examination, in a newspaper of general cir…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14018) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14018) Sec. 3-14018. Registers of candidates. From the returns or reports of the examiners, or from the examinations made by the commission, the commission shall prepare a register for each grade or class of positions in the classified ser…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14019) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14019) Sec. 3-14019. Promotions. The Commission shall, by its rules, provide for promotion in such classified service, on the basis of ascertained merit, examination and seniority in service, and shall provide, in all cases where it is pra…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14020) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14020) Sec. 3-14020. Appointments to classified service. The head of the institution, department or office in which a position classified under this Division is to be filled, shall notify the president of the board and said commission of t…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14021) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14021) Sec. 3-14021. Preference to veterans in appointments. Persons who were engaged in the military or naval service of the United States during the years 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, any time between…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14022) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14022) Sec. 3-14022. Exemptions. The following offices, positions and places of employment are hereby exempted from the provisions of this Division: officers elected by the people; the officers and employees whose appointment and removal i…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14023) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14023) Sec. 3-14023. Removals from classified service. No officer or employee in the classified service of the county, who shall have been appointed under said rules and after said examination, shall be removed or discharged or suspended f…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14024) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14024) Sec. 3-14024. Lay-offs. Whenever it becomes necessary through lack of work or funds, or whenever a position is abolished and the number of employees in a department must be reduced, the employee shall first be laid off who has the l…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14025) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14025) Sec. 3-14025. Reports to commission. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to said commission of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made in such classified civil service, and of all transfers, pro…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14026) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14026) Sec. 3-14026. Investigations. The commission shall investigate the enforcement of this Division and its rules, and the action of examiners herein provided for and the conduct and action of the appointees on the classified civil serv…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14027) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14027) Sec. 3-14027. Report of commission. Said commission shall on or before the first Monday of September of each year make to the president for transmission to the board of commissioners a report showing its own action, the rules in for…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14028) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14028) Sec. 3-14028. Chairman and secretary. The civil service commission shall select one of their own number to act as chairman and one as secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes of its proceedings, preserve all reports made to i…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14029) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14029) Sec. 3-14029. County officers to aid commission. All officers of said county shall aid said commission in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of this Division, and at any place where examinations are to be held shall allo…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14030) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14030) Sec. 3-14030. Salaries and expenses. Each of said civil service commissioners and the personnel director and chief examiner shall receive a salary to be fixed by the Board of Commissioners, and said commission may incur necessary ex…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14031) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14031) Sec. 3-14031. Appropriations. A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by said board to carry out the provisions of this Division in said county. If the board shall have already made the annual appropriation for cou…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14032) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14032) Sec. 3-14032. Frauds prohibited. No person or officer shall wilfully or corruptly, by himself or cooperation with any one or more other persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his or her right of examination, o…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14033) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14033) Sec. 3-14033. Soliciting or receiving political contributions prohibited. No officer or employee in the classified civil service of said county, or named in Section 3-14022, shall solicit, orally or by letter, or receive or pay, or …

(55 ILCS 5/3-14034) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14034) Sec. 3-14034. Solicitation of political contributions from officers or employees prohibited. No person shall solicit orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, contribution or payment, for any p…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14035) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14035) Sec. 3-14035. Soliciting or delivering political contributions in public offices forbidden. No person shall in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee in the classified civil ser…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14036) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14036) Sec. 3-14036. Payments of political contributions to public officers prohibited. No officer or employee in the classified civil service of said county, or named in Section 3-14022, shall directly or indirectly, give or hand over to …

(55 ILCS 5/3-14037) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14037) Sec. 3-14037. Abuse of political influence prohibited. No officer or employee in said classified service, or named in Section 3-14022, shall discharge or degrade, or promote, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14038) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14038) Sec. 3-14038. Payment for appointment or promotion prohibited. No applicant for appointment in said classified civil service, or to a position named in Section 3-14022, either directly or indirectly, shall pay, or promise to pay any…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14039) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14039) Sec. 3-14039. Recommendations in consideration of political service prohibited. No applicant for appointment or promotion in classified civil service shall ask for or receive a recommendation for assistance from any officer or emplo…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14040) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14040) Sec. 3-14040. Disallowance of certain claims. No accounting or auditing officer shall allow the claim of any public officer for services of any deputy or other person employed in the public service in violation of the provisions of …

(55 ILCS 5/3-14041) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14041) Sec. 3-14041. Certification of appointments and vacancies. The commission shall certify to the county clerk or other auditing officers, all appointments to offices and places in the classified civil service, and all vacancies occurr…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14042) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14042) Sec. 3-14042. Comptroller to pay salaries only after certification. No county clerk, comptroller or other auditing officer of said county shall approve the payment of, or be in any manner concerned in paying any salary or wages to a…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14043) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14043) Sec. 3-14043. Subpoenas; witness fees. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers, issued by the commission or by any commissioners, or by any board or person acting under th…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14044) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14044) Sec. 3-14044. Penalties. Any person who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Division or any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a Class B mis…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14045) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14045) Sec. 3-14045. Vacancy upon conviction; disqualification. If any person shall be convicted under the next preceding Section, any public office or place of public employment, which such person may hold shall, by force of such convicti…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14046) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14046) Sec. 3-14046. Prosecution for violations. Prosecutions for violations of this Division may be instituted either by the Attorney General, the State's attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, or …

(55 ILCS 5/3-14047) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14047) Sec. 3-14047. Audit committee. The board of commissioners may establish an audit committee, and may appoint members of the board or other appropriate officers to the committee, to review audit reports, financial reports or any other…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14048) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14048) Sec. 3-14048. County auditor. In the County of Cook, there is hereby created the office of auditor who shall be appointed by the President of the County Board, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the law in relation to ci…

(55 ILCS 5/3-14049) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14049) Sec. 3-14049. Appointment of physicians and nurses for the poor and mentally ill persons. The appointment, employment and removal by the Board of Commissioners of Cook County of all physicians and surgeons, advanced practice registe…

(55 ILCS 5/3-15001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15001) Sec. 3-15001. Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the County Department of Corrections Law. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/3-15002) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15002) Sec. 3-15002. Creation. In any county having more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, there is created within the office of the Sheriff a Department of Corrections, referred to in this Division as the "Department". (Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-…

(55 ILCS 5/3-15003) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15003) Sec. 3-15003. Powers and duties. Under the direction of the Sheriff the Department shall have the powers and duties enumerated as follows: (a) To operate and have jurisdiction over the county jail, municipal houses of correction wit…

(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.10) Sec. 3-15003.10. Housing requirements applicable to pregnant committed persons. (a) A county department of corrections may not place in administrative segregation a committed person who is pregnant or who gave birth during the preceding 30 days unless the d…