(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:
The governing authority or body of such park district, hereinafter
called the park commissioners, shall within 30 days after this Act
becomes applicable, and thereafter whenever a vacancy occurs, appoint a
superintendent of employment, for a term of 6 years from the date of
his or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly
appointed and qualified, which said superintendent of employment shall be
under the direction and supervision of the park commissioners (except that
with respect to the Chicago Park District the superintendent of employment
shall be appointed, shall serve a term, if any, and shall be directed and
supervised as provided in "An Act in relation to the creation, maintenance,
operation and improvement of the Chicago Park District", approved July 10,
1933, as now or hereafter amended), and 2 park commissioners or members of
such governing authority, each for a term of 2 years from the date of his
or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly appointed and
qualified, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service board of
such park district. The superintendent of employment shall be paid a salary
of not less than $2,400 a year, and shall devote his or her entire and
exclusive time and attention to the duties pertaining to the office of
superintendent and not engage in any other employment. The park
commissioners may fix the salary of each of the other members of the civil
service board at such sum, not to exceed $500 a year, as they may deem
proper. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum.
No member of the civil service board shall be removed except for
palpable incompetence, or malfeasance in office upon written charges
filed by or at the direction of the park commissioners and heard before
the park commissioners upon 10 days written notice to the member.
The commission shall hear and determine the charges and its
findings shall be final and if such charges shall be sustained, the
member of the civil service board so charged, shall be forthwith removed
from office. A final decision of the commission shall be subject to review
by the circuit court pursuant to the Administrative Review Law. If no
appeal is taken from a final decision sustaining the charges, or if such a
final decision is upheld on review, the park commission shall proceed
within 30 days to fill the vacancy created by such removal.
(Source: P.A. 85-1411.)
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