Chapter 70 — SPECIAL DISTRICTS

(70 ILCS 1210/17) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 96) Sec. 17. 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 s…

(70 ILCS 1210/18) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 97) Sec. 18. 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 main…

(70 ILCS 1210/19) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 98) Sec. 19. No person or officer shall wilfully or corruptly by himself, or in co-operation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his or her right of examination and employment hereunder; or corrup…

(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: T…

(70 ILCS 1210/20) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 99) Sec. 20. No officer or employee shall solicit, orally or by letter, 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 c…

(70 ILCS 1210/21) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 100) Sec. 21. No person shall solicit, orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, contribution or payment for any party or any political purpose whatever from any officer or employee in the classified …

(70 ILCS 1210/22) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 101) Sec. 22. No person shall in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee in the park district, solicit orally or by written communication delivered therein, or in any other manner, or r…

(70 ILCS 1210/23) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 102) Sec. 23. No officer or employee in the service of any such park district shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any officer or employee in said classified civil service, or to any senator or representative or alderperson,…

(70 ILCS 1210/24) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 103) Sec. 24. No person who holds any public office, or who has been nominated for, or who seeks a nomination or appointment to any public office, shall corruptly use or promise to use, either directly or indirectly, any official authority…

(70 ILCS 1210/25) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 104) Sec. 25. No applicant for appointment in said classified service, or to a position named in the eleventh section of this act, shall pay or promise to pay, either directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing to any person …

(70 ILCS 1210/26) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 105) Sec. 26. No applicant for appointment or promotion in the classified service shall ask for or receive a recommendation or assistance from any officer or employee in said service, or from any person in consideration of any political se…

(70 ILCS 1210/27) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 106) Sec. 27. The Board shall certify to the treasurer or other financial or auditing officer all appointments to offices and places in the classified service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation or death…

(70 ILCS 1210/28) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 107) Sec. 28. No treasurer, comptroller, paymaster, auditing officer or other officer or agent of such park district shall approve the payment of, or be in any manner concerned in paying any salary or wage to any person for services as an …

(70 ILCS 1210/29) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 108) Sec. 29. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify or to produce books and papers, issued by the board or by any member thereof, or by any person or persons acting under the orders of the board in the course…

(70 ILCS 1210/29a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 109) Sec. 29a. 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 September 16, 1940 and July 25, 1947, any ti…

(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 refe…

(70 ILCS 1210/30) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 110) Sec. 30. Any person who shall wilfully or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2361.)

(70 ILCS 1210/31) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 111) Sec. 31. If any person shall be convicted under the last preceding section, any public office or place of public employment which such person may hold shall, by force of such conviction, be rendered vacant. (Source: Laws 1911, p. 211.…

(70 ILCS 1210/32) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 112) Sec. 32. Prosecutions for violations of this Act 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 by the Civil Service Board acting throug…

(70 ILCS 1210/33) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 113) Sec. 33. Whenever the Attorney General or the State's attorney for the county in which an offense under this Act is alleged to have been committed shall refuse to prosecute the person or persons alleged to have committed such an offen…

(70 ILCS 1210/35) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 113.1) Sec. 35. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrativ…

(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 …

(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 populati…

(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 …

(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…

(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 comp…

(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 pr…

(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 …

(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 …

(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 li…

(70 ILCS 1215/0.01) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 113.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Annuity and Benefit Fund Civil Service Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1215/1) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 114) Sec. 1. 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 p…

(70 ILCS 1215/10) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 123) Sec. 10. 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 …

(70 ILCS 1215/11) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 124) Sec. 11. 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 hig…

(70 ILCS 1215/12) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 125) Sec. 12. 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 dep…

(70 ILCS 1215/13) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 126) Sec. 13. 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 s…

(70 ILCS 1215/14) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 127) Sec. 14. 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 th…

(70 ILCS 1215/15) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 128) Sec. 15. 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 vaca…

(70 ILCS 1215/16) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 129) Sec. 16. 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…

(70 ILCS 1215/17) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 130) Sec. 17. 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…

(70 ILCS 1215/18) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 131) Sec. 18. 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. (So…

(70 ILCS 1215/19) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 132) Sec. 19. 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 …

(70 ILCS 1215/2) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 115) Sec. 2. 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 t…

(70 ILCS 1215/20) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 133) Sec. 20. 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 a…

(70 ILCS 1215/21) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 134) Sec. 21. 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 …

(70 ILCS 1215/22) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 135) Sec. 22. 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 …

(70 ILCS 1215/23) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 136) Sec. 23. 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 ci…

(70 ILCS 1215/24) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 137) Sec. 24. 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 co…

(70 ILCS 1215/25) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 138) Sec. 25. No officer or employee in the service of such Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any officer or employee in said classified civil servi…

(70 ILCS 1215/26) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 139) Sec. 26. No person who holds any public office, or who has been nominated for, or who seeks a nomination or appointment to any public office, shall corruptly use or promise to use, either directly or indirectly, any official authority…