Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

70 ILCS 2605/4.7

(70 ILCS 2605/4.7) (from Ch. 42, par. 323.7)

Sec. 4.7.

All applicants for offices or places in said classified
civil service, except for the positions of deputy director of engineering,  deputy director of monitoring and research, deputy director of  maintenance and operations, assistant director of engineering,  assistant director of maintenance and operations,
 deputy general counsel, head assistant attorneys,
assistant director of monitoring and research, assistant director of
information technology, assistant director of human resources, comptroller, assistant treasurer, assistant director of procurement and materials management,
 and laborers, shall be subjected to
examination, which shall be public and competitive with limitations
specified in the rules of the Director as to residence, age, sex,
health, habits, moral character and qualifications to perform the duties
of the office or place to be filled, which qualifications shall be
prescribed in advance of such examination.  Such examinations shall be
practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters which
will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to
discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed,
and may include tests of physical qualifications and health and when
appropriate, of manual skill.  No question in any examination shall
relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations.  The Director
shall control all examinations, and may, whenever an examination is to
take place, designate a suitable number of persons to be special
examiners and it shall be the duty of such special examiners to conduct
such examinations as the Director may direct, and to make return and
report thereof to him; and he may at any time substitute any other
person in the place of any one so selected; and he may himself, at any
time, act as such special examiner, and without appointing other special
examiners.  The Director shall,
by rule, provide for and shall hold sufficient number of examinations to
provide a sufficient number of eligibles on the register for each grade
of position in the classified civil service, and if any place in the
classified civil service shall become vacant, to which there is no
person eligible for appointment, he shall hold an
examination for such position and repeat the same, if necessary, until a
vacancy is filled in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Eligible registers shall remain in force for 3 years, except the
eligible register for laborers which shall remain in force for 4 years and
except the eligible registers for student programs and entry level engineering
positions which, in the Director's discretion, may remain in force for one
year.

Examinations for an eligible
list for each position in the classified service above mentioned shall be
held at least once in 3 years and at least annually for student programs and
entry level engineering positions if the Director has limited the duration of
the registers for those positions to one year, unless the Director determines
that such examinations are not necessary because no vacancy exists.

To help defray expenses of examinations, the sanitary district
may, but need not, charge a fee to each applicant who desires to take
a civil service examination provided for by this Act. The amount of
such fees shall be set by the corporate authority of the sanitary
district.  Such fees shall be deposited in the corporate fund of the district.

(Source: P.A. 94-1070, eff. 11-29-06; 95-923, eff. 1-1-09.)