Section 302.180  Limitations on Trainee Appointments

a)         Any trainee appointed to a position in a trainee class in accordance with the Rules of the Department concerning Examinations and Eligible Lists, Sections 302.10 through 302.160, shall be appointed to a permanent position only after passing an appropriate competitive promotional examination for the title for which he/she is training and his/her name has been reached on the promotional eligible list.

b)         Any trainee directly appointed in a training class without open competitive examination shall obtain a probationary appointment in the title for which he/she is training only after he/she has passed the appropriate open competitive examination and his/her name has been reached on the resulting eligible lists, except that a trainee appointed to serve in a highly technical or management training program approved by the Director of Central Management Services shall obtain probationary appointment in the title for which he/she is being trained only after successful completion of the approved training program, and after passing an appropriate competitive promotional examination for the title for which he/she is training and his/her name has been reached on the promotional eligible list.

(Source:  Amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 3169, effective March 1, 1993)