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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 836
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 836 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
5 Act is amended by changing Section 4.2 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 2605/4.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 323.2)
7 Sec. 4.2. There is hereby created and established a civil
8 service board to consist of 3 persons to be selected in the
9 manner following:
10 The governing authority or body of the sanitary district,
11 hereinafter called the trustees, shall on or before January
12 31, 1952 appoint a civil service board of 3 members, all of
13 whom shall be persons who are not trustees and not more than
14 2 of whom shall be affiliated with the same political party.
15 Each member shall have been a qualified elector of the
16 sanitary district for at least 5 years immediately prior to
17 his or her appointment and shall believe firmly in the merit
18 system of government. No person shall be appointed to the
19 civil service board who has held an elective public office or
20 a position in a political party within the 2 years
21 immediately prior to his or her appointment. No member of
22 the board shall be a member of a committee in any partisan
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1 political club or organization, or shall hold or be a
2 candidate for any elective public office.
3 Of the members so appointed, one shall be appointed for a
4 term of 2 years, one for a term of 4 years and one for a term
5 of 6 years beginning February 1, 1952. All subsequent
6 appointments shall be for 6 year terms beginning February 1
7 of the year in which the antecedent term expires. In the
8 event a vacancy occurs from any cause in the office of any
9 member, the unexpired portion of the term shall be filled by
10 appointment within 60 days by the trustees. The board shall
11 elect from its members a chairman, vice-chairman and
12 secretary. Each shall serve for a term of 2 years or until a
13 successor is elected. Each member of the board shall receive
14 a salary of $20,000 $15,000 per annum, except the Chairman,
15 who shall receive a salary of $22,500 $17,500 per annum. Two
16 members of the civil service board shall constitute a quorum,
17 but in no instance shall the board have authority or exercise
18 responsibility if 60 days after a vacancy exists on the board
19 it has not been filled by appointment.
20 No member of the civil service board shall be removed
21 except for palpable incompetence or malfeasance in office
22 upon written charges filed by or at the direction of the
23 trustees and heard before the trustees sitting as the board
24 of hearings herein provided for.
25 The board of hearings shall hear and determine the
26 charges and its findings shall be final. If the charges are
27 sustained, the member of the civil service board so charged
28 shall be forthwith removed from office by the board of
29 hearings and the trustees shall thereupon proceed within 30
30 days to fill the vacancy created by that removal. In all
31 proceedings provided for in this Section, the board of
32 hearings and each member thereof shall have power to
33 administer oaths and to compel by subpoena the attendance and
34 testimony of witnesses and the production of books and
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1 papers.
2 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)".