55 ILCS 5/ Counties Code.

(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 service of said county, or named in Section 3-14022, solicit, orally or by written communication, deliver therein or in any other manner, or receive any contribution of money or other thing of value, for any party or political purpose whatever. No officer, agent, clerk or employee in the classified civil service of said county, or named in Section 3-14022, who may have charge or control of any building, office or room occupied for any purpose of said government, shall permit any person to enter the same for the purpose of therein soliciting or delivering written solicitations for, or receiving or giving notice of any political assessments.

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1475.)

(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 any officer or employee, or to any senator or representative or alderperson, councilman, or commissioner, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any party or political object whatever.

(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)

(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 of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten to do so, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money, or other valuable thing, for any party or political purpose, or for refusal or neglect to render any part or political service.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 money or other valuable thing to any person whatever for or on account of his appointment, or proposed appointment, and no officer or employee in said civil service or named in said Section 3-14022 shall pay or promise to pay, either directly or indirectly, any person any money or other valuable thing whatever for or on account of his promotion.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 employee in said service, or of any person upon the consideration of any political service to be rendered to or for such person or for the promotion of such person to any office or employment.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 the Division.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation or death, and all findings made or approved by the commission under the provisions of Section 3-14023, that a person shall be discharged from the classified service.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 any person for services as an officer or employee of said county unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment according to the provisions of law and is entitled to payment therefor.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 the orders of the commission in the course of an investigation conducted either under the provisions of Section 3-14023 or Section 3-14026, and who shall refuse or neglect to appear or testify, or to produce books and papers relevant to the investigation as commanded in such subpoena, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished as provided in Section 3-14044. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before the circuit courts, and shall be paid from the appropriation for the expense of the commission. And any circuit court, upon application of any such commissioner or officer or board may, in its discretion, compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and giving of testimony before the commission, or before any such commissioner, investigating board or officer by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before such court. Every person who, having taken an oath or made affirmation before a commissioner or officer appointed by the commission authorized to administer oaths, shall swear or affirm wilfully, corruptly and falsely, shall be guilty of perjury, and upon conviction shall be punished accordingly.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 conviction, be rendered vacant, and such person shall be incapable of holding any office or place of public employment for the period of five years from the date of such conviction.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 by the commission acting through special counsel. Such suits shall be conducted and controlled by the prosecuting officers who institute them, unless they request the aid of other prosecuting officers.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 related document prepared under this Division, including management letters proposed by or on behalf of the county board.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 civil service in said county, and whose compensation and official bond shall be fixed by said board; and there shall be formulated, installed and regulated by and under the direction and authority of the County Board, and subject to the provisions of "The Local Records Act", a uniform system of books of account, forms, reports and records to be used in the offices of every county officer of Cook County which said system of books of account, forms, reports and records so formulated under the direction of the said County Board and installed and regulated shall be used by said county officers for the purpose of keeping an accurate statement of moneys received by them and all the financial and business transactions of their respective offices; and said auditor shall audit or cause to be audited from day to day the receipts of the said several offices and the reports of the said offices of the business transactions of their respective offices and certify to their correctness or incorrectness to the County Board. Said auditor shall report monthly to the County Board a summarized and classified statement of the official transactions of each of the said offices of each officer of Cook County for each day of said month; and the said auditor shall further make a semi-annual report to the County Board containing a recapitulation of the receipts of the several offices for the preceding 6 months; such report to include the period covered by the semi-annual report of the several officers of the County of Cook to the County Board where a semi-annual report is required by law from said officers.

For the purpose aforesaid the said County Board or any one authorized by it in addition to the power and authority vested in them by Sections 3-13001 and 3-13002, as heretofore or hereafter amended, are vested with power and authority to enter the office of any county officer of Cook County at all times and to have free and unrestricted access to all the books, papers, forms, reports, accounts and memoranda used by said officers for the transaction of the business of their respective offices for the purpose of auditing, checking or correcting the reports when reports to the County Board are required from said offices by law, or compiling the records provided herein to be made to the County Board, or auditing the general business of the offices.

Said auditor may under the direction of the County Board prescribe new forms, reports, accounts or records to be used by said officers in the transaction of the said business of their several respective offices, or change, alter or amend the same from time to time.

The said auditor may with the authority of the President of the County Board employ assistants, the number and compensation of whom shall be fixed by the County Board.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(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 registered nurses, physician assistants, and nurses for the care and treatment of the sick, poor, mentally ill or persons in need of mental treatment of said county shall be made only in conformity with rules prescribed by the County Civil Service Commission to accomplish the purposes of this Section.

The Board of Commissioners of Cook County may provide that all such physicians and surgeons who serve without compensation shall be appointed for a term to be fixed by the Board, and that the physicians and surgeons usually designated and known as interns shall be appointed for a term to be fixed by the Board: Provided, that there may also, at the discretion of the board, be a consulting staff of physicians and surgeons, which staff may be appointed by the president, subject to the approval of the board, and provided further, that the Board may contract with any recognized training school or any program for health professionals for health care services of any or all of such sick or mentally ill or persons in need of mental treatment.

(Source: P.A. 99-581, eff. 1-1-17; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)

(55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-15 heading) Division 3-15. County Department of Corrections

(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; 87-895.)

(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 within the county and any other penal, corrections or prisoner diagnostic center facility operated by either the county jail or municipal houses of correction.

(b) To have charge of all prisoners held in any institution, center or other facility in the county over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section, whether they are misdemeanants, felons, persons held for trial, persons held in protective custody, persons held for transfer to other detention facilities or persons held for non-payment of fines, for violations of ordinances or any other quasi-criminal charges. Nothing in this Division applies to minors subject to proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. It may transfer or recommit any prisoner from one institution, center or other such facility to any other institution, center or other facility whenever it determines that such transfer or recommitment would promote the welfare or rehabilitation of the prisoner, or that such transfer or recommitment is necessary to relieve overcrowding.

(c) To establish diagnostic, classification and rehabilitation services and programs at the county jail and such other facilities over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section as may be appropriate.

(d) To establish, whenever feasible, separate detention and commitment facilities and utilize the facilities over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section in a manner which provides separate detention and commitment facilities.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)