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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/9-5-2

    (65 ILCS 5/9-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-5-2)
    Sec. 9-5-2. Any contract entered into between the corporate authorities of a municipality and a subdivider pursuant to Section 9-5-1 shall be filed with the recorder of each county in which all or a part of the property affected thereby is located. The recording of the contract in this manner shall serve to notify persons interested in such property of the fact that there will be a charge in relation to such property for the connection to and use of the facilities constructed under the contract.
(Source: P.A. 83-358.)

65 ILCS 5/9-5-3

    (65 ILCS 5/9-5-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-5-3)
    Sec. 9-5-3. This Division 5 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit. This Division 5 is not a prohibition upon the contractual and associational powers granted by Article VII, Section 10 of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 77-2463.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 heading)
ARTICLE 10
EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYMENT

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 1 heading)
DIVISION 1. CIVIL SERVICE IN CITIES

65 ILCS 5/10-1-1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-1)
    Sec. 10-1-1. The mayor of each municipality which adopts this Division 1 as hereinafter provided shall, not less than 40 nor more than 90 days after the taking effect of this Division 1 in such municipality, appoint 3 persons, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service commissioners of such municipality, one for 3 years, one for 2 years and one for one year from the time of appointment and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. In every year thereafter the mayor shall, in like manner, appoint one person as the successor of the commissioner whose term shall expire in that year to serve as such commissioner for 3 years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Two commissioners shall constitute a quorum. All appointments to the commission, both original and to fill vacancies, shall be so made that not more than 2 members shall, at the time of appointment, be members of the same political party. The commissioners shall hold no other lucrative office or employment under the United States, the State of Illinois, or any municipal corporation or political division thereof. No person shall be appointed a commissioner who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of this State or comparable laws of any other state or the United States. Each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state.
    However, in any municipality having the commission form of municipal government, the appointment of civil service commissioners shall be made by the corporate authorities, and the corporate authorities may, by ordinance, provide that 5 commissioners shall be so appointed, one for one year, 2 for 2 years and 2 for 3 years. The corporate authorities shall appoint, in a like manner, the successors of the commissioners whose terms expire in that year to serve as commissioners for 3 years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Three members shall constitute a quorum, and no more than 3 of the commissioners shall be of the same political party. If such municipality has adopted this Division 1 prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1965, and subsequently provides, by ordinance, for 5 commissioners, 2 additional commissioners shall be so appointed, one for 2 years and one for 3 years, and successors shall be appointed in a like manner as commissions established after such effective date.
(Source: P.A. 87-423.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-2)
    Sec. 10-1-2. The mayor may, in his discretion, remove any commissioner for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The mayor shall within 10 days report in writing any such removal to the corporate authorities, with the reasons therefor. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the mayor or, if the municipality is under the commission form of municipal government, then by the corporate authorities.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-3)
    Sec. 10-1-3. The commissioners shall classify all the offices and places of employment in such municipality with reference to the examinations hereinafter provided for, except those offices and places excluded by Section 10-1-17. The offices and places so classified by the commission shall constitute the classified civil service of such municipality. No appointments to any of such offices or places shall be made except under and according to the rules hereinafter mentioned.
    The commissioners shall also classify all positions of employment in respect to employees whose employment is transferred to the municipality by virtue of "An Act in relation to the exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000," approved July 5, 1957, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and such positions of employment shall be included in the classified civil service of the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-4)
    Sec. 10-1-4. Persons transferred from the employment of a park district by virtue of "An Act in relation to the exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000," approved July 5, 1957, as heretofore and hereafter amended, shall, without examination, be assigned to positions in the classified civil service of the municipality, so far as may be practicable, having duties and responsibilities equivalent to their park district employment. For the purpose of establishing the civil service status of park policemen transferred to the municipality, any rank above the rank of captain shall not be recognized.
    As provided in said Act of 1957, the eligible registers and reemployment registers of the park district civil service board as to positions and persons so transferred shall remain in force and effect as eligible and reemployment registers of the civil service commission, subject to the authority of the commission, in its discretion, to cancel such eligible registers, or portions thereof, as have been in force more than 2 years.
    Employees so transferred shall have the same standing, grade, class or rank which they held in the classified service of the park district from which they were transferred. For the purpose of determining seniority in class, grade or rank, each employee shall be credited with the time served by him in the employment held by him on the date of such transfer.
    If this Division 1 exempts from its provisions any position held by an employee transferred under said Act of 1957, to the municipality, the employee so transferred shall be given a position in the classified civil service as nearly comparable in responsibilities and duties to his former employment as it may be possible to approximate.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-5)
    Sec. 10-1-5. The commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Division 1, and for examinations, appointments and removals in accordance with its provisions, and the commission may, from time to time, make changes in the original rules.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-6

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-6)
    Sec. 10-1-6. All rules made as hereinabove provided and all changes therein shall forthwith be printed for distribution by the commission. The commission shall give notice of the places where the rules may be obtained by publication in one or more newspapers published in such municipality and if no newspaper is published in such municipality, then in a newspaper of general circulation in such municipality. In each such publication shall be specified the date, not less than 10 days subsequent to the date of such publication, when the rules shall go into operation.
(Source: P.A. 77-867.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-7

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-7)
    Sec. 10-1-7. Examination of applicants; disqualifications.
    (a) All applicants for offices or places in the classified service, except those mentioned in Section 10-1-17, are subject to examination. The examination shall be public, competitive, and open to all citizens of the United States, with specified limitations as to residence, age, health, habits, and moral character. An individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law or is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to (i) all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject and (ii) the individual being authorized under federal law to obtain, carry, or purchase or otherwise possess a firearm.
    (b) Residency requirements in effect at the time an individual enters the fire or police service of a municipality (other than a municipality that has more than 1,000,000 inhabitants) cannot be made more restrictive for that individual during his or her period of service for that municipality, or be made a condition of promotion, except for the rank or position of Fire or Police Chief.
    (c) No person with a record of misdemeanor convictions except those under Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-30, 11-35, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1, 24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, and 32-8, subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3, and paragraphs (1), (6), and (8) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 or arrested for any cause but not convicted on that cause shall be disqualified from taking the examination on grounds of habits or moral character, unless the person is attempting to qualify for a position on the police department, in which case the conviction or arrest may be considered as a factor in determining the person's habits or moral character.
    (d) Persons entitled to military preference under Section 10-1-16 shall not be subject to limitations specifying age unless they are applicants for a position as a fireman or a policeman having no previous employment status as a fireman or policeman in the regularly constituted fire or police department of the municipality, in which case they must not have attained their 35th birthday, except any person who has served as an auxiliary police officer under Section 3.1-30-20 for at least 5 years and is under 40 years of age.
    (e) All employees of a municipality of less than 500,000 population (except those who would be excluded from the classified service as provided in this Division 1) who are holding that employment as of the date a municipality adopts this Division 1, or as of July 17, 1959, whichever date is the later, and who have held that employment for at least 2 years immediately before that later date, and all firemen and policemen regardless of length of service who were either appointed to their respective positions by the board of fire and police commissioners under the provisions of Division 2 of this Article or who are serving in a position (except as a temporary employee) in the fire or police department in the municipality on the date a municipality adopts this Division 1, or as of July 17, 1959, whichever date is the later, shall become members of the classified civil service of the municipality without examination.
    (f) The examinations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters that will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the positions to which they seek to be appointed. The examinations shall include tests of physical qualifications, health, and (when appropriate) manual skill. If an applicant is unable to pass the physical examination solely as the result of an injury received by the applicant as the result of the performance of an act of duty while working as a temporary employee in the position for which he or she is being examined, however, the physical examination shall be waived and the applicant shall be considered to have passed the examination. No questions in any examination shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations. Results of examinations and the eligible registers prepared from the results shall be published by the commission within 60 days after any examinations are held.
    (g) The commission shall control all examinations, and may, whenever an examination is to take place, designate a suitable number of persons, either in or not in the official service of the municipality, to be examiners. The examiners shall conduct the examinations as directed by the commission and shall make a return or report of the examinations to the commission. If the appointed examiners are in the official service of the municipality, the examiners shall not receive extra compensation for conducting the examinations unless the examiners are subject to a collective bargaining agreement with the municipality. The commission may at any time substitute any other person, whether or not in the service of the municipality, in the place of any one selected as an examiner. The commission members may themselves at any time act as examiners without appointing examiners. The examiners at any examination shall not all be members of the same political party.
    (h) In municipalities of 500,000 or more population, no person who has attained his or her 35th birthday shall be eligible to take an examination for a position as a fireman or a policeman unless the person has had previous employment status as a policeman or fireman in the regularly constituted police or fire department of the municipality, except as provided in this Section.
    (i) In municipalities of more than 5,000 but not more than 200,000 inhabitants, no person who has attained his or her 35th birthday shall be eligible to take an examination for a position as a fireman or a policeman unless the person has had previous employment status as a policeman or fireman in the regularly constituted police or fire department of the municipality, except as provided in this Section.
    (j) In all municipalities, applicants who are 20 years of age and who have successfully completed 2 years of law enforcement studies at an accredited college or university may be considered for appointment to active duty with the police department. An applicant described in this subsection (j) who is appointed to active duty shall not have power of arrest, nor shall the applicant be permitted to carry firearms, until he or she reaches 21 years of age.
    (k) In municipalities of more than 500,000 population, applications for examination for and appointment to positions as firefighters or police shall be made available at various branches of the public library of the municipality.
    (l) No municipality having a population less than 1,000,000 shall require that any fireman appointed to the lowest rank serve a probationary employment period of longer than one year. The limitation on periods of probationary employment provided in Public Act 86-990 is an exclusive power and function of the State. Pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, a home rule municipality having a population less than 1,000,000 must comply with this limitation on periods of probationary employment, which is a denial and limitation of home rule powers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the probationary employment period limitation may be extended for a firefighter who is required, as a condition of employment, to be a licensed paramedic, during which time the sole reason that a firefighter may be discharged without a hearing is for failing to meet the requirements for paramedic licensure.
    (m) To the extent that this Section or any other Section in this Division conflicts with Section 10-1-7.1 or 10-1-7.2, then Section 10-1-7.1 or 10-1-7.2 shall control.
(Source: P.A. 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 103-357, eff. 1-1-24.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.1)
    Sec. 10-1-7.1. Original appointments; full-time fire department.
    (a) Applicability. Unless a commission elects to follow the provisions of Section 10-1-7.2, this Section shall apply to all original appointments to an affected full-time fire department. Existing registers of eligibles shall continue to be valid until their expiration dates, or up to a maximum of 2 years after August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251).
    Notwithstanding any statute, ordinance, rule, or other law to the contrary, all original appointments to an affected department to which this Section applies shall be administered in the manner provided for in this Section. Provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code, municipal ordinances, and rules adopted pursuant to such authority and other laws relating to initial hiring of firefighters in affected departments shall continue to apply to the extent they are compatible with this Section, but in the event of a conflict between this Section and any other law, this Section shall control.
    A home rule or non-home rule municipality may not administer its fire department process for original appointments in a manner that is less stringent than this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of the powers and functions exercised by the State.
    A municipality that is operating under a court order or consent decree regarding original appointments to a full-time fire department before August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251) is exempt from the requirements of this Section for the duration of the court order or consent decree.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection (a), this Section does not apply to a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
    (b) Original appointments. All original appointments made to an affected fire department shall be made from a register of eligibles established in accordance with the processes established by this Section. Only persons who meet or exceed the performance standards required by this Section shall be placed on a register of eligibles for original appointment to an affected fire department.
    Whenever an appointing authority authorizes action to hire a person to perform the duties of a firefighter or to hire a firefighter-paramedic to fill a position that is a new position or vacancy due to resignation, discharge, promotion, death, the granting of a disability or retirement pension, or any other cause, the appointing authority shall appoint to that position the person with the highest ranking on the final eligibility list. If the appointing authority has reason to conclude that the highest ranked person fails to meet the minimum standards for the position or if the appointing authority believes an alternate candidate would better serve the needs of the department, then the appointing authority has the right to pass over the highest ranked person and appoint either: (i) any person who has a ranking in the top 5% of the register of eligibles or (ii) any person who is among the top 5 highest ranked persons on the list of eligibles if the number of people who have a ranking in the top 5% of the register of eligibles is less than 5 people.
    Any candidate may pass on an appointment once without losing his or her position on the register of eligibles. Any candidate who passes a second time may be removed from the list by the appointing authority provided that such action shall not prejudice a person's opportunities to participate in future examinations, including an examination held during the time a candidate is already on the municipality's register of eligibles.
    The sole authority to issue certificates of appointment shall be vested in the Civil Service Commission. All certificates of appointment issued to any officer or member of an affected department shall be signed by the chairperson and secretary, respectively, of the commission upon appointment of such officer or member to the affected department by the commission. After being selected from the register of eligibles to fill a vacancy in the affected department, each appointee shall be presented with his or her certificate of appointment on the day on which he or she is sworn in as a classified member of the affected department. Firefighters who were not issued a certificate of appointment when originally appointed shall be provided with a certificate within 10 days after making a written request to the chairperson of the Civil Service Commission. Each person who accepts a certificate of appointment and successfully completes his or her probationary period shall be enrolled as a firefighter and as a regular member of the fire department.
    For the purposes of this Section, "firefighter" means any person who has been prior to, on, or after August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251) appointed to a fire department or fire protection district or employed by a State university and sworn or commissioned to perform firefighter duties or paramedic duties, or both, except that the following persons are not included: part-time firefighters; auxiliary, reserve, or voluntary firefighters, including paid-on-call firefighters; clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of a fire department or fire protection district who are not routinely expected to perform firefighter duties; and elected officials.
    (c) Qualification for placement on register of eligibles. The purpose of establishing a register of eligibles is to identify applicants who possess and demonstrate the mental aptitude and physical ability to perform the duties required of members of the fire department in order to provide the highest quality of service to the public. To this end, all applicants for original appointment to an affected fire department shall be subject to examination and testing which shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants unless the municipality shall by ordinance limit applicants to residents of the municipality, county or counties in which the municipality is located, State, or nation. Any examination and testing procedure utilized under subsection (e) of this Section shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. Municipalities may establish educational, emergency medical service licensure, and other prerequisites for participation in an examination or for hire as a firefighter. Any municipality may charge a fee to cover the costs of the application process.
    Residency requirements in effect at the time an individual enters the fire service of a municipality cannot be made more restrictive for that individual during his or her period of service for that municipality, or be made a condition of promotion, except for the rank or position of fire chief and for no more than 2 positions that rank immediately below that of the chief rank which are appointed positions pursuant to the Fire Department Promotion Act.
    No person who is 35 years of age or older shall be eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter unless the person has had previous employment status as a firefighter in the regularly constituted fire department of the municipality, except as provided in this Section. The age limitation does not apply to:
        (1) any person previously employed as a full-time
    
firefighter in a regularly constituted fire department of (i) any municipality or fire protection district located in Illinois, (ii) a fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of the Fire Protection District Act, or (iii) a municipality whose obligations were taken over by a fire protection district,
        (2) any person who has served a municipality as a
    
regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter, or
        (3) any person who turned 35 while serving as a
    
member of the active or reserve components of any of the branches of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Guard of any state, whose service was characterized as honorable or under honorable, if separated from the military, and is currently under the age of 40.
    No person who is under 21 years of age shall be eligible for employment as a firefighter.
    No applicant shall be examined concerning his or her political or religious opinions or affiliations. The examinations shall be conducted by the commissioners of the municipality or their designees and agents.
    No municipality shall require that any firefighter appointed to the lowest rank serve a probationary employment period of longer than one year of actual active employment, which may exclude periods of training, or injury or illness leaves, including duty related leave, in excess of 30 calendar days. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the probationary employment period limitation may be extended for a firefighter who is required, as a condition of employment, to be a licensed paramedic, during which time the sole reason that a firefighter may be discharged without a hearing is for failing to meet the requirements for paramedic licensure.
    In the event that any applicant who has been found eligible for appointment and whose name has been placed upon the final eligibility register provided for in this Division 1 has not been appointed to a firefighter position within one year after the date of his or her physical ability examination, the commission may cause a second examination to be made of that applicant's physical ability prior to his or her appointment. If, after the second examination, the physical ability of the applicant shall be found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of the commission, the applicant shall not be appointed. The applicant's name may be retained upon the register of candidates eligible for appointment and when next reached for certification and appointment that applicant may be again examined as provided in this Section, and if the physical ability of that applicant is found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of the commission, the applicant shall not be appointed, and the name of the applicant shall be removed from the register.
    (d) Notice, examination, and testing components. Notice of the time, place, general scope, merit criteria for any subjective component, and fee of every examination shall be given by the commission, by a publication at least 2 weeks preceding the examination: (i) in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality, or (ii) on the municipality's Internet website. Additional notice of the examination may be given as the commission shall prescribe.
    The examination and qualifying standards for employment of firefighters shall be based on: mental aptitude, physical ability, preferences, moral character, and health. The mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components shall determine an applicant's qualification for and placement on the final register of eligibles. The examination may also include a subjective component based on merit criteria as determined by the commission. Scores from the examination must be made available to the public.
    (e) Mental aptitude. No person who does not possess at least a high school diploma or an equivalent high school education shall be placed on a register of eligibles. Examination of an applicant's mental aptitude shall be based upon a written examination. The examination shall be practical in character and relate to those matters that fairly test the capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties performed by members of a fire department. Written examinations shall be administered in a manner that ensures the security and accuracy of the scores achieved.
    (f) Physical ability. All candidates shall be required to undergo an examination of their physical ability to perform the essential functions included in the duties they may be called upon to perform as a member of a fire department. For the purposes of this Section, essential functions of the job are functions associated with duties that a firefighter may be called upon to perform in response to emergency calls. The frequency of the occurrence of those duties as part of the fire department's regular routine shall not be a controlling factor in the design of examination criteria or evolutions selected for testing. These physical examinations shall be open, competitive, and based on industry standards designed to test each applicant's physical abilities in the following dimensions:
        (1) Muscular strength to perform tasks and evolutions
    
that may be required in the performance of duties including grip strength, leg strength, and arm strength. Tests shall be conducted under anaerobic as well as aerobic conditions to test both the candidate's speed and endurance in performing tasks and evolutions. Tasks tested may be based on standards developed, or approved, by the local appointing authority.
        (2) The ability to climb ladders, operate from
    
heights, walk or crawl in the dark along narrow and uneven surfaces, and operate in proximity to hazardous environments.
        (3) The ability to carry out critical,
    
time-sensitive, and complex problem solving during physical exertion in stressful and hazardous environments. The testing environment may be hot and dark with tightly enclosed spaces, flashing lights, sirens, and other distractions.
    The tests utilized to measure each applicant's capabilities in each of these dimensions may be tests based on industry standards currently in use or equivalent tests approved by the Joint Labor-Management Committee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
    Physical ability examinations administered under this Section shall be conducted with a reasonable number of proctors and monitors, open to the public, and subject to reasonable regulations of the commission.
    (g) Scoring of examination components. Appointing authorities may create a preliminary eligibility register. A person shall be placed on the list based upon his or her passage of the written examination or the passage of the written examination and the physical ability component. Passage of the written examination means attaining the minimum score set by the commission. Minimum scores should be set by the commission so as to demonstrate a candidate's ability to perform the essential functions of the job. The minimum score set by the commission shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. The appointing authority may conduct the physical ability component and any subjective components subsequent to the posting of the preliminary eligibility register.
    The examination components for an initial eligibility register shall be graded on a 100-point scale. A person's position on the list shall be determined by the following: (i) the person's score on the written examination, (ii) the person successfully passing the physical ability component, and (iii) the person's results on any subjective component as described in subsection (d).
    In order to qualify for placement on the final eligibility register, an applicant's score on the written examination, before any applicable preference points or subjective points are applied, shall be at or above the minimum score set by the commission. The local appointing authority may prescribe the score to qualify for placement on the final eligibility register, but the score shall not be less than the minimum score set by the commission.
    The commission shall prepare and keep a register of persons whose total score is not less than the minimum score for passage and who have passed the physical ability examination. These persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence based on the highest to the lowest total points scored on the mental aptitude, subjective component, and preference components of the test administered in accordance with this Section. No more than 60 days after each examination, an initial eligibility list shall be posted by the commission. The list shall include the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of the time of examination and subject to claim for preference credit.
    Commissions may conduct additional examinations, including without limitation a polygraph test, after a final eligibility register is established and before it expires with the candidates ranked by total score without regard to date of examination. No more than 60 days after each examination, an initial eligibility list shall be posted by the commission showing the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination and subject to claim for preference credit.
    (h) Preferences. The following are preferences:
        (1) Veteran preference. Persons who were engaged in
    
the military service of the United States for a period of at least one year of active duty and who were honorably discharged therefrom, or who are now or have been members on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service, shall be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department of an affected department.
        (2) Fire cadet preference. Persons who have
    
successfully completed 2 years of study in fire techniques or cadet training within a cadet program established under the rules of the Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC), as defined in Section 50 of the Fire Department Promotion Act, may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (3) Educational preference. Persons who have
    
successfully obtained an associate's degree in the field of fire service or emergency medical services, or a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (4) Paramedic preference. Persons who have obtained
    
a license as a paramedic may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department of an affected department providing emergency medical services.
        (5) Experience preference. All persons employed by a
    
municipality who have been paid-on-call or part-time certified Firefighter II, certified Firefighter III, State of Illinois or nationally licensed EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, or paramedic, or any combination of those capacities may be awarded up to a maximum of 5 points. However, the applicant may not be awarded more than 0.5 points for each complete year of paid-on-call or part-time service. Applicants from outside the municipality who were employed as full-time firefighters or firefighter-paramedics by a fire protection district or another municipality may be awarded up to 5 experience preference points. However, the applicant may not be awarded more than one point for each complete year of full-time service.
        Upon request by the commission, the governing body of
    
the municipality or in the case of applicants from outside the municipality the governing body of any fire protection district or any other municipality shall certify to the commission, within 10 days after the request, the number of years of successful paid-on-call, part-time, or full-time service of any person. A candidate may not receive the full amount of preference points under this subsection if the amount of points awarded would place the candidate before a veteran on the eligibility list. If more than one candidate receiving experience preference points is prevented from receiving all of their points due to not being allowed to pass a veteran, the candidates shall be placed on the list below the veteran in rank order based on the totals received if all points under this subsection were to be awarded. Any remaining ties on the list shall be determined by lot.
        (6) Residency preference. Applicants whose principal
    
residence is located within the fire department's jurisdiction may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (7) Additional preferences. Up to 5 additional
    
preference points may be awarded for unique categories based on an applicant's experience or background as identified by the commission.
        (7.5) Apprentice preferences. A person who has
    
performed fire suppression service for a department as a firefighter apprentice and otherwise meets the qualifications for original appointment as a firefighter specified in this Section may be awarded up to 20 preference points. To qualify for preference points, an applicant shall have completed a minimum of 600 hours of fire suppression work on a regular shift for the affected fire department over a 12-month period. The fire suppression work must be in accordance with Section 10-1-14 of this Division and the terms established by a Joint Apprenticeship Committee included in a collective bargaining agreement agreed between the employer and its certified bargaining agent. An eligible applicant must apply to the Joint Apprenticeship Committee for preference points under this item. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall evaluate the merit of the applicant's performance, determine the preference points to be awarded, and certify the amount of points awarded to the commissioners. The commissioners may add the certified preference points to the final grades achieved by the applicant on the other components of the examination.
        (8) Scoring of preferences. The commission shall give
    
preference for original appointment to persons designated in item (1) by adding to the final grade that they receive 5 points for the recognized preference achieved. The commission may give preference for original appointment to persons designated in item (7.5) by adding to the final grade the amount of points designated by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee as defined in item (7.5). The commission shall determine the number of preference points for each category, except items (1) and (7.5). The number of preference points for each category shall range from 0 to 5, except item (7.5). In determining the number of preference points, the commission shall prescribe that if a candidate earns the maximum number of preference points in all categories except item (7.5), that number may not be less than 10 nor more than 30. The commission shall give preference for original appointment to persons designated in items (2) through (7) by adding the requisite number of points to the final grade for each recognized preference achieved. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the commission in determining the final eligibility list and appointment from the eligibility list. The local appointing authority may prescribe the total number of preference points awarded under this Section, but the total number of preference points, except item (7.5), shall not be less than 10 points or more than 30 points. Apprentice preference points may be added in addition to other preference points awarded by the commission.
    No person entitled to any preference shall be required to claim the credit before any examination held under the provisions of this Section, but the preference shall be given after the posting or publication of the initial eligibility list or register at the request of a person entitled to a credit before any certification or appointments are made from the eligibility register, upon the furnishing of verifiable evidence and proof of qualifying preference credit. Candidates who are eligible for preference credit shall make a claim in writing within 10 days after the posting of the initial eligibility list, or the claim shall be deemed waived. Final eligibility registers shall be established after the awarding of verified preference points. However, apprentice preference credit earned subsequent to the establishment of the final eligibility register may be applied to the applicant's score upon certification by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee to the commission and the rank order of candidates on the final eligibility register shall be adjusted accordingly. All employment shall be subject to the commission's initial hire background review, including, but not limited to, criminal history, employment history, moral character, oral examination, and medical and psychological examinations, all on a pass-fail basis. The medical and psychological examinations must be conducted last, and may only be performed after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.
    Any person placed on an eligibility list who exceeds the age requirement before being appointed to a fire department shall remain eligible for appointment until the list is abolished, or his or her name has been on the list for a period of 2 years. No person who has attained the age of 35 years shall be inducted into a fire department, except as otherwise provided in this Section.
    The commission shall strike off the names of candidates for original appointment after the names have been on the list for more than 2 years.
    (i) Moral character. No person shall be appointed to a fire department unless he or she is a person of good character; not a habitual drunkard, a gambler, or a person who has been convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. However, no person shall be disqualified from appointment to the fire department because of the person's record of misdemeanor convictions except those under Sections 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1, 24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, 32-8, and paragraphs (1), (6), and (8) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or arrest for any cause without conviction thereon. Any such person who is in the department may be removed on charges brought for violating this subsection and after a trial as hereinafter provided.
    A classifiable set of the fingerprints of every person who is offered employment as a certificated member of an affected fire department whether with or without compensation, shall be furnished to the Illinois State Police and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the commission.
    Whenever a commission is authorized or required by law to consider some aspect of criminal history record information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory powers and responsibilities, then, upon request and payment of fees in conformance with the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Illinois State Police is authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive identification, the information contained in State files as is necessary to fulfill the request.
    (j) Temporary appointments. In order to prevent a stoppage of public business, to meet extraordinary exigencies, or to prevent material impairment of the fire department, the commission may make temporary appointments, to remain in force only until regular appointments are made under the provisions of this Division, but never to exceed 60 days. No temporary appointment of any one person shall be made more than twice in any calendar year.
    (k) A person who knowingly divulges or receives test questions or answers before a written examination, or otherwise knowingly violates or subverts any requirement of this Section, commits a violation of this Section and may be subject to charges for official misconduct.
    A person who is the knowing recipient of test information in advance of the examination shall be disqualified from the examination or discharged from the position to which he or she was appointed, as applicable, and otherwise subjected to disciplinary actions.
(Source: P.A. 101-489, eff. 8-23-19; 102-375, eff. 8-13-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.2)
    Sec. 10-1-7.2. Alternative procedure; original appointment; full-time firefighter.
    (a) Authority. The Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC), as defined in Section 50 of the Fire Department Promotion Act, may establish a community outreach program to market the profession of firefighter and firefighter-paramedic so as to ensure the pool of applicants recruited is of broad diversity and the highest quality. Nothing in this Section requires that the Joint Labor and Management Committee establish or operate the community outreach program or master register of eligibles, or to contract with a testing agency to establish or operate such program or register, unless the Joint Labor and Management Committee chooses to do so.
    For the purposes of this Section, "firefighter" means any person who has been prior to, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly appointed to a fire department or fire protection district or employed by a State university and sworn or commissioned to perform firefighter duties or paramedic duties, or both, except that the following persons are not included: part-time firefighters; auxiliary, reserve, or voluntary firefighters, including paid-on-call firefighters; clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of a fire department or fire protection district who are not routinely expected to perform firefighter duties; and elected officials.
    (b) Eligibility. Persons eligible for placement on the master register of eligibles shall consist of the following:
        Persons who have participated in and received a
    
passing total score on the mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components of a regionally administered test based on the standards described in this Section. The standards for administering these tests and the minimum passing score required for placement on this list shall be as is set forth in this Section.
        Qualified candidates shall be listed on the master
    
register of eligibles in highest to lowest rank order based upon their test scores without regard to their date of examination. Candidates listed on the master register of eligibles shall be eligible for appointment for 2 years after the date of the certification of their final score on the register without regard to the date of their examination. After 2 years, the candidate's name shall be struck from the list.
        Any person currently employed as a full-time member
    
of a fire department or any person who has experienced a non-voluntary (and non-disciplinary) separation from the active workforce due to a reduction in the number of departmental officers, who was appointed pursuant to this Division, Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Fire Protection District Act, and who during the previous 24 months participated in and received a passing score on the physical ability and mental aptitude components of the test may request that his or her name be added to the master register. Any eligible person may be offered employment by a local commission under the same procedures as provided by this Section except that the apprenticeship period may be waived and the applicant may be immediately issued a certificate of original appointment by the local commission.
    (c) Qualifications for placement on register of eligibles. The purpose for establishing a master register of eligibles shall be to identify applicants who possess and demonstrate the mental aptitude and physical ability to perform the duties required of members of the fire department in order to provide the highest quality of service to the public. To this end, all applicants for original appointment to an affected fire department through examination conducted by the Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC) shall be subject to examination and testing which shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants. Any examination and testing procedure utilized under subsection (e) of this Section shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws. Any subjective component of the testing must be administered by certified assessors. All qualifying and disqualifying factors applicable to examination processes for local commissions in this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall be applicable to persons participating in Joint Labor and Management Committee examinations unless specifically provided otherwise in this Section.
    Notice of the time, place, general scope, and fee of every JLMC examination shall be given by the JLMC or designated testing agency, as applicable, by publication at least 30 days preceding the examination, in one or more newspapers published in the region, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the region. The JLMC may publish the notice on the JLMC's Internet website. Additional notice of the examination may be given as the JLMC shall prescribe.
    (d) Examination and testing components for placement on register of eligibles. The examination and qualifying standards for placement on the master register of eligibles and employment shall be based on the following components: mental aptitude, physical ability, preferences, moral character, and health. The mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components shall determine an applicant's qualification for and placement on the master register of eligibles. The consideration of an applicant's general moral character and health shall be administered on a pass-fail basis after a conditional offer of employment is made by a local commission.
    (e) Mental aptitude. Examination of an applicant's mental aptitude shall be based upon written examination and an applicant's prior experience demonstrating an aptitude for and commitment to service as a member of a fire department. Written examinations shall be practical in character and relate to those matters that fairly test the capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties performed by members of a fire department. Written examinations shall be administered in a manner that ensures the security and accuracy of the scores achieved. Any subjective component of the testing must be administered by certified assessors. No person who does not possess a high school diploma or an equivalent high school education shall be placed on a register of eligibles. Local commissions may establish educational, emergency medical service licensure, and other pre-requisites for hire within their jurisdiction.
    (f) Physical ability. All candidates shall be required to undergo an examination of their physical ability to perform the essential functions included in the duties they may be called upon to perform as a member of a fire department. For the purposes of this Section, essential functions of the job are functions associated with duties that a firefighter may be called upon to perform in response to emergency calls. The frequency of the occurrence of those duties as part of the fire department's regular routine shall not be a controlling factor in the design of examination criteria or evolutions selected for testing. These physical examinations shall be open, competitive, and based on industry standards designed to test each applicant's physical abilities in each of the following dimensions:
        (1) Muscular strength to perform tasks and evolutions
    
that may be required in the performance of duties including grip strength, leg strength, and arm strength. Tests shall be conducted under anaerobic as well as aerobic conditions to test both the candidate's speed and endurance in performing tasks and evolutions. Tasks tested are to be based on industry standards developed by the JLMC by rule.
        (2) The ability to climb ladders, operate from
    
heights, walk or crawl in the dark along narrow and uneven surfaces, and operate in proximity to hazardous environments.
        (3) The ability to carry out critical,
    
time-sensitive, and complex problem solving during physical exertion in stressful and hazardous environments. The testing environment may be hot and dark with tightly enclosed spaces, flashing lights, sirens, and other distractions.
    The tests utilized to measure each applicant's capabilities in each of these dimensions may be tests based on industry standards currently in use or equivalent tests approved by the Joint Labor-Management Committee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
    (g) Scoring of examination components. The examination components shall be graded on a 100-point scale. A person's position on the master register of eligibles shall be determined by the person's score on the written examination, the person successfully passing the physical ability component, and the addition of any applicable preference points.
    Applicants who have achieved at least the minimum score on the written examination, as set by the JLMC, and who successfully pass the physical ability examination shall be placed on the initial eligibility register. Minimum scores should be set by the JLMC so as to demonstrate a candidate's ability to perform the essential functions of the job. The minimum score set by the JLMC shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. Applicable preference points shall be added to the written examination scores for all applicants who qualify for the initial eligibility register. Applicants who score at or above the minimum passing score as set by the JLMC, including any applicable preference points, shall be placed on the master register of eligibles by the JLMC.
    These persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence based on the highest to the lowest total points scored on the mental aptitude and physical ability components, plus any applicable preference points requested and verified by the JLMC, or approved testing agency.
    No more than 60 days after each examination, a revised master register of eligibles shall be posted by the JLMC showing the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination.
    (h) Preferences. The board shall give military, education, and experience preference points to those who qualify for placement on the master register of eligibles, on the same basis as provided for examinations administered by a local commission.
    No person entitled to preference or credit shall be required to claim the credit before any examination held under the provisions of this Section. The preference shall be given after the posting or publication of the applicant's initial score at the request of the person before finalizing the scores from all applicants taking part in a JLMC examination. Candidates who are eligible for preference credit shall make a claim in writing within 10 days after the posting of the initial scores from any JLMC test or the claim shall be deemed waived. Once preference points are awarded, the candidates shall be certified to the master register in accordance with their final score including preference points.
    (i) Firefighter apprentice and firefighter-paramedic apprentice. The employment of an applicant to an apprentice position (including a currently employed full-time member of a fire department whose apprenticeship may be reduced or waived) shall be subject to the applicant passing the moral character standards and health examinations of the local commission. In addition, a local commission may require as a condition of employment that the applicant demonstrate current physical ability by either passing the local commission's approved physical ability examination, or by presenting proof of participating in and receiving a passing score on the physical ability component of a JLMC test within a period of up to 12 months before the date of the conditional offer of employment. Applicants shall be subject to the local commission's initial hire background review including criminal history, employment history, moral character, oral examination, and medical examinations which may include polygraph, psychological, and drug screening components, all on a pass-fail basis. The medical examinations must be conducted last, and may only be performed after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.
    (j) Selection from list. Any municipality or fire protection district that is a party to an intergovernmental agreement under the terms of which persons have been tested for placement on the master register of eligibles shall be entitled to offer employment to any person on the list irrespective of their ranking on the list. The offer of employment shall be to the position of firefighter apprentice or firefighter-paramedic apprentice.
    Applicants passing these tests may be employed as a firefighter apprentice or a firefighter-paramedic apprentice who shall serve an apprenticeship period of 12 months or less according to the terms and conditions of employment as the employing municipality or district offers, or as provided for under the terms of any collective bargaining agreement then in effect. The apprenticeship period is separate from the probationary period.
    Service during the apprenticeship period shall be on a probationary basis. During the apprenticeship period, the apprentice's training and performance shall be monitored and evaluated by a Joint Apprenticeship Committee.
    The Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall consist of 4 members who shall be regular members of the fire department with at least 10 years of full-time work experience as a firefighter or firefighter-paramedic. The fire chief and the president of the exclusive bargaining representative recognized by the employer shall each appoint 2 members to the Joint Apprenticeship Committee. In the absence of an exclusive collective bargaining representative, the chief shall appoint the remaining 2 members who shall be from the ranks of company officer and firefighter with at least 10 years of work experience as a firefighter or firefighter-paramedic. In the absence of a sufficient number of qualified firefighters, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee members shall have the amount of experience and the type of qualifications as is reasonable given the circumstances of the fire department. In the absence of a full-time member in a rank between chief and the highest rank in a bargaining unit, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall be reduced to 2 members, one to be appointed by the chief and one by the union president, if any. If there is no exclusive bargaining representative, the chief shall appoint the second member of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee from among qualified members in the ranks of company officer and below. Before the conclusion of the apprenticeship period, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall meet to consider the apprentice's progress and performance and vote to retain the apprentice as a member of the fire department or to terminate the apprenticeship. If 3 of the 4 members of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee affirmatively vote to retain the apprentice (if a 2 member Joint Apprenticeship Committee exists, then both members must affirmatively vote to retain the apprentice), the local commission shall issue the apprentice a certificate of original appointment to the fire department.
    (k) A person who knowingly divulges or receives test questions or answers before a written examination, or otherwise knowingly violates or subverts any requirement of this Section, commits a violation of this Section and may be subject to charges for official misconduct.
    A person who is the knowing recipient of test information in advance of the examination shall be disqualified from the examination or discharged from the position to which he or she was appointed, as applicable, and otherwise subjected to disciplinary actions.
    (l) Applicability. This Section does not apply to a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
(Source: P.A. 102-188, eff. 1-1-22.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-7.3)
    Sec. 10-1-7.3. Appointment of fire chief. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Division, after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, a person shall not be appointed as the chief, the acting chief, the department head, or a position, by whatever title, that is responsible for day-to-day operations of a fire department for greater than 180 days unless he or she possesses the following qualifications and certifications:
        (1) Office of the State Fire Marshal Basic Operations
    
Firefighter Certification or Office of the State Fire Marshal Firefighter II Certification; Office of the State Fire Marshal Advanced Fire Officer Certification or Office of the State Fire Marshal Fire Officer II Certification; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college;
        (2) a current certification from the International
    
Fire Service Accreditation Congress or Pro Board Fire Service Professional Qualifications System that meets the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, Level I job performance requirements; a current certification from the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress or Pro Board Fire Service Professional Qualifications System that meets the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Fire Officer II job performance requirements; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college;
        (3) qualifications that meet the National Fire
    
Protection Association standard NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, Level I job performance requirements; qualifications that meet the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Fire Officer II job performance requirements; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college; or
        (4) a minimum of 10 years' experience as a
    
firefighter at the fire department in the jurisdiction making the appointment.
    This Section applies to fire departments that employ firefighters hired under the provisions of this Division. This Section does not apply to a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
    On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, a home rule municipality may not appoint a fire chief, an acting chief, a department head, or a position, by whatever title, that is responsible for day-to-day operations of a fire department for greater than 180 days in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 100-425, eff. 8-25-17; 100-1126, eff. 1-1-19.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-8

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-8)
    Sec. 10-1-8. In the event that any applicant for an office or place in the civil service (who has been found eligible for appointment and whose name has been placed upon the register provided for in this Division 1) has not been appointed to such office or place within 60 days from the date of his examination as to physical qualifications and health, the commission shall cause a second examination to be made of such applicant prior to his appointment and within 60 days of such appointment, which second examination shall be practical in character and shall relate to the cardiac, pulmonary, arterial, renal and sane condition of the applicant. If, upon such second examination, the physical, or mental condition of the applicant shall be found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of such commission, the applicant shall not be appointed. The name of such applicant shall be retained upon the register of candidates eligible for appointment and when again reached for certification and appointment such applicant shall be again examined as herein provided, and if the physical or mental condition of such applicant shall again be found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of such commission, such applicant shall not be appointed and the name of such applicant shall be removed from the register.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-9

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-9)
    Sec. 10-1-9. Every applicant who desires to take any civil service examination provided by this Division 1 may be required, at the time of making application, to pay to the municipality a fee, as hereinafter provided, to defray the expenses of such examination. If fees are required by the municipality for the taking of such examinations they shall be deposited in the general fund of the municipality and shall not exceed the following:
    Minimum salary of less than
        $1,200 annually...............................50 cents
    Minimum salary of $1,200 or over and
        less than $2,000 annually...........................$1
    Minimum salary of $2,000 or over and
        less than $3,000 annually...........................$2
    Minimum salary of $3,000 or
        more annually.......................................$3
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-10

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-10)
    Sec. 10-1-10. The provisions of Sections 10-1-7 through 10-1-9 relating to examinations and payment of examination fees shall be inapplicable to employees transferred to the employment of the municipality by virtue of "An Act in relation to an exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in excess of 500,000", approved July 5, 1957, as heretofore and hereafter amended.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-11

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-11)
    Sec. 10-1-11. Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination shall be given by the commission by publication for 2 weeks preceding such examination in a newspaper of general circulation published in such municipality, but if no newspaper is published in such municipality, then in a newspaper of general circulation in such municipality. Such notice shall also be posted by the commission in a conspicuous place in its office for 2 weeks before such examination. Such further notice of examination may be given as the commission shall prescribe.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-12

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-12)
    Sec. 10-1-12. Register; eligibility list. From the returns or reports of the examiners, or from the examinations made by the commission, the commission shall prepare a register for each grade or class of positions in the classified service of such municipality of the persons whose general average standing upon examination for such grade or class is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of such commission, and who are otherwise eligible. Such persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence as determined by examination, without reference to priority of time of examination.
    Within 60 days after each examination, an eligibility list shall be posted by the Commission, which shall show the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination and subject to claim for military credit. Candidates who are eligible for military credit shall make a claim in writing within 10 days after posting of the eligibility list or such claim shall be deemed waived. Appointment shall be subject to a final physical examination.
    If a person is placed on an eligibility list and becomes overage before he or she is appointed to a police or fire department, the person remains eligible for appointment until the list is abolished pursuant to authorized procedures. Otherwise no person who has attained the age of 36 years shall be inducted as a member of a police department and no person who has attained the age of 35 years shall be inducted as a member of a fire department, except as otherwise provided in this division. With respect to a police department, a veteran shall be allowed to exceed the maximum age provision of this Section by the number of years served on active military duty, but by no more than 10 years of active military duty.
(Source: P.A. 96-472, eff. 8-14-09.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-13

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-13)
    Sec. 10-1-13. The commission shall, by its rules, provide for promotions in such classified service, on the basis of ascertained merit and seniority in service and examination and shall provide, in all cases where it is practicable, that vacancies shall be filled by promotion. All examinations for promotion shall be competitive among such members of the next lower rank as desire to submit themselves to such examination and the results thereof and the promotional eligible registers prepared therefrom shall be published by the commission within 60 days after any examinations are held. If two or more applicants achieve the identical final grade average, they shall be placed on the promotional eligible register in their order of seniority in the position from which they seek promotion. The commission shall submit to the appointing power the names of not more than 3 applicants for each promotion having the highest rating except that a commission in any municipality with more than 130,000 but less than 2,000,000 population may submit the names of not more than 5 applicants having the highest rating for each promotion, but in making his selection the appointing authority shall not pass over the person having the highest rating on the original register more than once and shall not pass over the person having the second highest rating in the original register more than twice. The commission shall strike off all names of applicants from a promotional eligible register after they have remained thereon no less than 2 years and no more than 3 years, provided that the commission shall notify the appointing power before the names are stricken and such appointing power shall fill any existing vacancies before all names are stricken from the promotional eligible register. The method of examination and the rules governing the same, and the method of certifying, shall be the same as provided for applicants for original appointment.
    This amendatory Act of 1971 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 85-462.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-14

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-14)
    Sec. 10-1-14. The head of the department or office in which a position classified under this Division 1 is to be filled shall notify the commission of that fact, and the commission shall certify to the appointing officer the name and address of the candidate standing highest upon the register for the class or grade to which the position belongs. However, in cases of laborers where a choice by competition is impracticable, the commission may provide by its rules that the selections shall be made by lot from among those candidates proved fit by examination, but laborers who have previously been in the service and were removed because their services were no longer required, shall be preferred, and be reinstated before other laborers are given positions, preference being given to those who have had the longest term of service, and laborers in the employ of the municipality on July 1, 1949, who, as of such date, have been employed under temporary authority for 3 years or more or during parts of 3 or more calendar years, shall be preferred also, and shall be placed upon the register for such positions without examination and shall be certified before other laborers are given positions, preference being given to those laborers under temporary authority who have had the longest term of service in such positions. In making such certification, sex shall be disregarded. The appointing officer shall notify the commission of each position to be filled, separately, and shall fill such place by the appointment of the person certified to him or her by the commission therefor. Original appointment shall be on probation for a period not to exceed 6 months to be fixed by the rules but all time spent in attending training schools and seminars, except on-the-job training conducted by local Fire Department personnel, shall be excluded in calculating the probation period; provided that in municipalities with a population of more than 500,000 inhabitants, original appointment to the police department shall be on probation for a period not to exceed 9 months to be fixed by the rules of the department. The commission may strike off names of candidates from the register after they have remained thereon more than 2 years. At or before the expiration of the period of probation, the head of the department or office in which a candidate is employed may, by and with the consent of the commission, discharge him or her upon assigning in writing his or her reason therefor to the commission. If he or she is not then discharged, his or her appointment shall be deemed complete. To prevent the stoppage of public business, or to meet extraordinary exigencies, the head of any department or office may, with the approval of the commission, make temporary appointment to remain in force not exceeding 120 days, and only until regular appointments under the provisions of this Division 1 can be made. In any municipal fire department that employs full-time firefighters and is subject to a collective bargaining agreement, a person who has not qualified for regular appointment under the provisions of this Division 1 shall not be used as a temporary or permanent substitute for classified members of a municipality's fire department or for regular appointment as a classified member of a municipality's fire department unless mutually agreed to by the employee's certified bargaining agent. Such agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining. Municipal fire departments covered by the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly that are using non-certificated employees as substitutes immediately prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly may, by mutual agreement with the certified bargaining agent, continue the existing practice or a modified practice and that agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining. A home rule unit may not regulate the hiring of temporary or substitute members of the municipality's fire department in a manner that is inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 95-490, eff. 6-1-08.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-15

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-15)
    Sec. 10-1-15. In any municipality subject to this Division 1 having a population of 500,000 or more, all sidewalk inspectors, chief street inspector, supervisors of payrolls and supervisors of pavement repairs who on July 26, 1951, have served in such capacity for 2 years or more shall have certified civil service status.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-16

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-16)
    Sec. 10-1-16. Veteran's preference. Persons who were engaged in the active military or naval service of the United States for a period of at least one year and who were honorably discharged therefrom and all persons who were engaged in such military or naval service who are now or may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service, not including, however, persons who were convicted by court-martial of disobedience of orders, where such disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military service on the ground of alleged religious or conscientious objections against war, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, positions, and places of employment in the classified service of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 1, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such office, position, or place of employment as determined by examination. For purposes of this Section, if a person has been deployed, then "active duty military or naval service of the United States" includes training and service school attendance, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d), which is ordered pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 12301(d).
    The civil service commission shall give preference points for original appointment to qualified veterans whose names appear on any register of eligibles resulting from an examination for original entrance in the classified service of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 1 by adding to the final grade average that they receive or will receive as the result of any examination held for original entrance, 5 points. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the civil service commission in determining the position of those persons on any eligibility list that has been created as the result of any examination for original entrance for purposes of preference in certification and appointment from that eligibility list. Persons who were engaged in the active military or naval service of the United States for a period of at least one year and who were honorably discharged therefrom or who are now or who may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service, not including, however, persons who were convicted by court martial of disobedience of orders where such disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military service on the ground of alleged religious or conscientious objections against war, and whose names appear on existing promotional eligible registers or any promotional eligible register that may hereafter be created, as provided for by this Division 1, shall be preferred for promotional appointment to civil offices, positions and places of employment in the classified civil service of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 1.
    The civil service commission shall give preference for promotional appointment to persons as hereinabove designated whose names appear on existing promotional eligible registers or promotional eligible registers that may hereafter be created by adding to the final grade average which they received or will receive as the result of any promotional examination seven-tenths of one point for each 6 months or fraction thereof of active military or naval service not exceeding 30 months. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the civil service commission in determining the position of such persons on any eligible list which has been created or will be created as the result of any promotional examination held hereunder for purposes of preference in certification and appointment from such eligible list.
    No person shall receive the preference for a promotional appointment granted by this Section after he or she has received one promotion from an eligible list on which he or she was allowed such preference.
    No person entitled to preference or credit for military or naval service hereunder shall be required to furnish evidence or record of honorable discharge from the armed forces before the publication or posting of any eligible register or list resulting from the examination. Such preference shall be given after the posting or publication of any eligible list or register resulting from such examination and before any certifications or appointments are made from such list or register.
(Source: P.A. 96-83, eff. 1-1-10.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-17

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-17)
    Sec. 10-1-17. Officers who are elected by the people, or who are elected by the corporate authorities pursuant to the municipal charter, or whose appointment is subject to confirmation by the corporate authorities, judges of election, members of any board of education, the superintendent and teachers of schools, the employees of any welfare department, heads of any principal department of the municipality, the chief librarian of the public library, members of the law department, police officers above the grade of captain, police cadets, a health officer appointed after July 1, 1953, seasonal employees which means those persons whose employment does not exceed 90 days in any calendar year, one deputy and one private secretary of each of the elected municipal officials and the municipal manager, and administrative assistants to the mayor or municipal manager, shall not be included in such classified service, except that the chief of the police department may be included in the classified service if the corporate authorities so provides by ordinance.
    Any position of employment in a public library that is operated under The Illinois Local Library Act and has an elected Board of Library Trustees may be excluded from the classified service by a 2/3 vote of the Board of Library Trustees.
(Source: P.A. 85-488.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-18

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-18)
    Sec. 10-1-18. (a) Except as hereinafter provided in this Section, no officer or employee in the classified civil service of any municipality who is appointed under the rules and after examination, may be removed or discharged, or suspended for a period of more than 30 days, except for cause upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. The hearing shall be as hereinafter provided, unless the employer and the labor organization representing the person have negotiated an alternative or supplemental form of due process based upon impartial arbitration as a term of a collective bargaining agreement. In non-home rule units of government, such bargaining shall be permissive rather than mandatory unless such contract term was negotiated by the employer and the labor organization prior to or at the time of the effective date of this amendatory Act, in which case such bargaining shall be considered mandatory.
    Such charges shall be investigated by or before the civil service commission, or by or before some officer or board appointed by the commission to conduct that investigation. The finding and decision of that commission or investigating officer or board, when approved by the commission, shall be certified to the appointing officer, and shall forthwith be enforced by that officer. Before any officer or employee in the classified service of any municipality may be interrogated or examined by or before any disciplinary board, or departmental agent or investigator, the results of which hearing, interrogation or examination may be the basis for filing charges seeking his removal or discharge, he must be advised in writing as to what specific improper or illegal act he is alleged to have committed; he must be advised in writing that his admissions made in the course of the hearing, interrogation or examination may be used as the basis for charges seeking his removal or discharge; and he must be advised in writing that he has the right to counsel of his own choosing present to advise him at any hearing, interrogation or examination; and a complete record of any hearing, interrogation or examination shall be made and a complete transcript thereof made available to such officer or employee without charge and without delay. Nothing in this Division 1 limits the power of any officer to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period, not exceeding 30 days except that any employee or officer suspended for more than 5 days or suspended within 6 months after a previous suspension shall be entitled, upon request, to a hearing before the civil service commission concerning the propriety of such suspension. In the course of an investigation of charges, each member of the commission, and of any board so appointed by it, and any officer so appointed, may administer oaths and may secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and the production of books and papers relevant to the investigation. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require such charges or investigation in cases of persons having the custody of public money for the safe keeping of which another person has given bonds.
    This subsection (a) does not apply to police or firefighters in the classified civil service of a municipality of 500,000 or fewer inhabitants.
    (b) No officer or employee of a police or fire department in the classified civil service of any municipality having 500,000 or fewer inhabitants who is appointed under the rules and after examination, may be removed or discharged, or suspended for a period of more than 5 calendar days, except for cause upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. The hearing shall be as hereinafter provided, unless the employer and the labor organization representing the person have negotiated an alternative or supplemental form of due process based upon impartial arbitration as a term of a collective bargaining agreement. In non-home rule units of government, such bargaining shall be permissive rather than mandatory unless such contract term was negotiated by the employer and the labor organization prior to or at the time of the effective date of this amendatory Act, in which case such bargaining shall be considered mandatory.
    Such charges shall be investigated by or before the civil service commission, or by or before some officer or board appointed by the commission to conduct that investigation. The finding and decision of that commission or investigating officer or board, when approved by the commission, shall be certified to the appointing officer, and shall forthwith be enforced by that officer. Before any such officer or employee of a police or fire department may be interrogated or examined by or before any disciplinary board, or departmental agent or investigator, the results of which hearing, interrogation or examination may be the basis for filing charges seeking his removal or discharge, he must be advised in writing as to what specific improper or illegal act he is alleged to have committed; he must be advised in writing that his admissions made in the course of the hearing, interrogation or examination may be used as the basis for charges seeking his removal or discharge; and he must be advised in writing that he has the right to have counsel of his own choosing present to advise him at any hearing, interrogation or examination; and a complete record of any hearing, interrogation or examination shall be made and a complete transcript thereof made available to such officer or employee without charge and without delay. Nothing in this Division 1 limits the power of the chief officer of a police or fire department to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period, not exceeding 5 calendar days, provided the civil service commission is promptly notified thereof in writing. Any employee or officer so suspended shall be entitled, upon request, to a hearing before the civil service commission concerning the propriety of such suspension. Upon such hearing, the commission may sustain the action of the chief of the department, may reverse it with instructions that the person receive his pay for the period involved, or may suspend the person for an additional period of not more than 30 days or discharge him, depending upon the facts presented. In the course of an investigation of charges, each member of the commission, and of any board so appointed by it, and any officer so appointed, may administer oaths and may secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and the production of books and papers relevant to the investigation. If the charge is based upon an allegation of the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, the charge must be brought within 5 years after the commission of the act upon which the charge is based. The statute of limitations established in this Section 10-1-18(b) shall apply only to acts of unreasonable force occurring on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1992.
    (c) Whenever the corporate authorities of any municipality in which this Division 1 is in operation, designates by ordinance or whenever any general law of this state designates any specific age of not less than 63 years as the maximum age for legal employment of policemen or firemen in the service of any municipality which has adopted or shall adopt this Division 1 or designates any minimum age for the automatic or compulsory retirement of policemen or firemen in the service of that municipality, any such policeman or fireman to whom such ordinance or law may refer or apply upon attaining the designated age of 63 years or upwards as set out in the ordinance or law shall forthwith and immediately be retired from the service of that municipality in accordance with the terms or provisions of that ordinance or law. The civil service commission of the municipality shall discharge or retire automatically any policeman or fireman in the classified civil service of the municipality at the time and in the manner provided in that ordinance or law and certify the retirement or discharge to the proper branch or department head. In the case of any such policeman or fireman who has filed an application for appointment in the classified civil service of the municipality, the age stated in that application shall be conclusive evidence against that policeman or fireman of his age, but the civil service commission (except as respects police department officers and employees in municipalities of more than 500,000 population where the Police Board shall exercise these powers as provided in Section 10-1-18.1) may hear testimony and consider all evidence available in any case in which any charge is filed against any such policeman or fireman alleging that he understated his age in his application for appointment into the classified civil service of the municipality.
    In addition to all the other powers now granted by law, the corporate authorities of any municipality which has adopted or shall adopt this Division 1 may by ordinance provide an age limit of not less than 63 years as the maximum age for the legal employment of any person employed as a policeman or fireman under this Division 1, and may provide in that ordinance for the automatic or compulsory retirement and discharge of the policeman or fireman upon his attainment of the designated retirement age.
    This Section does not apply to the suspension, removal or discharge of officers and civilian employees of the police department in the classified civil service of a municipality of more than 500,000 but that disciplinary action may be taken by the Police Board, rather than the civil service commission, as provided in Section 10-1-18.1.
    (d) Commencing on January 1, 1993, each board or other entity responsible for determining whether or not to file a charge shall, no later than December 31 of each year, publish a status report on its investigations of allegations of unreasonable force. At a minimum, the status report shall include the following information:
        (1) the number of police officers against whom an
    
allegation of unreasonable force was made;
        (2) the number of allegations of unreasonable force
    
made against each such police officer;
        (3) the number of police officers against whom
    
disciplinary charges were filed on the basis of allegations of unreasonable force;
        (4) a listing of investigations of allegations of
    
unreasonable force pending as of the date of the report, together with the dates on which such allegations were made; and
        (5) a listing of allegations of unreasonable force
    
for which the board has determined not to file charges.
    These status reports shall not disclose the identity of
    
any witness or victim, nor shall they disclose the identity of any police officer who is the subject of an allegation of unreasonable force against whom a charge has not been filed. The information underlying these status reports shall be confidential and exempt from public inspection and copying, as provided under Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-650, eff. 11-30-99.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-18.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-18.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-18.1)
    Sec. 10-1-18.1. In any municipality of more than 500,000 population, no officer or employee of the police department in the classified civil service of the municipality whose appointment has become complete may be removed or discharged, or suspended for more than 30 days except for cause upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense by the Police Board. Before any such officer or employee may be interrogated or examined by or before any disciplinary board, or departmental agent or investigator, the results of which hearing, interrogation or examination may be the basis for filing charges seeking his removal or discharge, he must be advised in writing as to what specific improper or illegal act he is alleged to have committed; he must be advised in writing that his admissions made in the course of the hearing, interrogation or examination may be used as the basis for charges seeking his removal or discharge; and he must be advised in writing that he has the right to counsel of his own choosing present to advise him at any hearing, interrogation or examination; and a complete record of any hearing, interrogation or examination shall be made and a complete transcript thereof made available to such officer or employee without charge and without delay.
    Upon the filing of charges for which removal or discharge, or suspension of more than 30 days is recommended a hearing before the Police Board shall be held. If the charge is based upon an allegation of the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, the charge must be brought within 5 years after the commission of the act upon which the charge is based. The statute of limitations established in this Section 10-1-18.1 shall apply only to acts of unreasonable force occurring on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1992.
    The Police Board shall establish rules of procedure not inconsistent with this Section respecting notice of charges and the conduct of the hearings before the Police Board, or before any member thereof appointed by the Police Board to hear the charges. The Police Board, or any member thereof, is not bound by formal or technical rules of evidence, but hearsay evidence is inadmissible. The person against whom charges have been filed may appear before the Police Board or any member thereof, as the case may be, with counsel of his own choice and defend himself; shall have the right to be confronted by his accusers; may cross-examine any witness giving evidence against him; and may by counsel present witnesses and evidence in his own behalf.
    The Police Board or any member thereof designated by it, may administer oaths and secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of relevant books and papers. All proceedings before the Police Board or member thereof shall be recorded. No continuance may be granted after a hearing has begun unless all parties to the hearing agree thereto. The findings and decision of the Police Board, when approved by the Board, shall be certified to the superintendent and shall forthwith be enforced by the superintendent.
    A majority of the members of the Police Board must concur in the entry of any disciplinary recommendation or action.
    Nothing in this Section limits the power of the superintendent to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period, not exceeding 30 days.
    Commencing on January 1, 1993, each board or other entity responsible for determining whether or not to file a charge shall, no later than December 31 of each year, publish a status report on its investigations of allegations of unreasonable force. At a minimum, the status report shall include the following information:
        (1) the number of police officers against whom an
    
allegation of unreasonable force was made;
        (2) the number of allegations of unreasonable force
    
made against each such police officer;
        (3) the number of police officers against whom
    
disciplinary charges were filed on the basis of allegations of unreasonable force;
        (4) a listing of investigations of allegations of
    
unreasonable force pending as of the date of the report, together with the dates on which such allegations were made; and
        (5) a listing of allegations of unreasonable force
    
for which the board has determined not to file charges.
    These status reports shall not disclose the identity of
    
any witness or victim, nor shall they disclose the identity of any police officer who is the subject of an allegation of unreasonable force against whom a charge has not been filed. The information underlying these status reports shall be confidential and exempt from public inspection and copying, as provided under Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-1239.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-18.2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-18.2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-18.2)
    Sec. 10-1-18.2. Home rule preemption. No municipality, including a municipality that is a home rule unit, may regulate the period of time or establish or enforce a statute of limitations relating to charges brought against a police officer before a Police Board, Civil Service Commission, or other board or officer empowered by law or ordinance to investigate police misconduct if the charge is based upon an allegation of the use of unreasonable force by a police officer. The statute of limitations established in Sections 10-1-18 and 10-1-18.1 for those charges are an exclusive exercise of powers and functions by the State under paragraph (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 87-1239.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-19

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-19)
    Sec. 10-1-19. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power, to the commission, of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made in such classified civil service, and of all transfers, promotions, resignations, or vacancies from any cause in such service, and of the date thereof. The commission shall keep a record of all such information. When any office or place of employment is created or abolished, or the compensation attached thereto altered, the officer or board making such change shall immediately report it in writing to the commission.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-20

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-20)
    Sec. 10-1-20. The commission shall investigate the enforcement of this Division 1 and its rules, and the action of the examiners herein provided for, and the conduct and action of the appointees in the classified service in its municipality. The commission may inquire as to the nature, tenure and compensation of all offices and places in the public service thereof. In the course of such investigations each commissioner may administer oaths. The commission may secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigations.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-21

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-21)
    Sec. 10-1-21. The commission shall, on or before January 15 of each year, make to the mayor for transmission to the corporate authorities a report showing the commission's own action, the rules in force, the practical effects thereof, and any suggestions it may have for the more effectual accomplishment of the purposes of this Division 1. The mayor may require a report from the commission at any other time.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-22

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-22)
    Sec. 10-1-22. The commission shall employ a chief examiner, who shall, under the direction of the commission, superintend any examination held in such municipality under this Division 1. The chief examiner also shall perform such other duties as the commission shall prescribe. The chief examiner shall be ex-officio secretary of the commission, under the direction of such commission. The chief examiner, as such secretary, shall keep the minutes of its proceedings, preserve all reports made to it, keep a record of all examinations held under its direction, and perform such other duties as the commission shall prescribe.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-23

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-23)
    Sec. 10-1-23. All officers of any municipality which adopts this Division 1 shall aid the commission in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of this Division 1, and at any place where examinations are to be held shall allow reasonable use of public buildings for holding such examinations. The mayor of such municipality shall cause suitable rooms to be provided for the commission at the expense of such municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-24

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-24)
    Sec. 10-1-24. In any municipality having a population of 500,000 inhabitants or more, the president of the commission shall receive a salary of $7,500 a year, each of the other members of the commission shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year, and the chief examiner of the commission shall receive a salary to be fixed by the corporate authorities of such municipality. Any person not at the time in the official service of the municipality, serving as a member of the board of examiners or of a trial board, shall receive compensation for every day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his duty as an examiner or a member of the trial board at the rate of not exceeding $7 per day, and the commission may, in such municipality, also incur expenses not exceeding the amount appropriated therefor by the corporate authorities of the municipality wherein the commission exists. In municipalities having a population of less than 500,000 inhabitants, such commissioners and the chief examiner shall receive an annual salary, to be fixed by the corporate authorities of such municipalities. In any municipality having a population of less than 500,000 inhabitants, any person not at the time in the official service of the municipality, serving as a member of the board of examiners or of a trial board, shall receive compensation for every day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his duty as an examiner or member of the trial board at the rate per day to be fixed by the corporate authorities of such municipality, and the commission may, in such municipality also incur expenses not exceeding the amount appropriated therefor by the corporate authorities wherein the commission exists.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-25

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-25)
    Sec. 10-1-25. A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by each municipality which adopts this Division 1, to carry out the provisions of this Division 1 in such municipality. In such municipalities as shall have already made the annual appropriation for municipal purposes for the current fiscal year, the mayor is authorized and required to pay the salaries and expenses as herein provided for such fiscal year out of the moneys appropriated for contingent purposes by such municipality, or out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-26

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-26) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-26)
    Sec. 10-1-26. No person or officer shall wilfully or corruptly by himself or in co-operation with one or more other persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his right of examination, or corruptly or falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the examination or proper standing of any person examined hereunder or aid in so doing, or wilfully or corruptly make any false representation concerning the same, or concerning the person examined, or wilfully or corruptly furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined, or to be examined, being appointed, employed or promoted.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-27

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-27) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-27)
    Sec. 10-1-27. No officer or employee of any municipality which adopts this Division 1 shall solicit, orally or by letter, or receive or pay, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting, receiving or paying any assessment, subscription or contribution for any party or political purpose whatever.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-27.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-27.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-27.1)
    Sec. 10-1-27.1. No municipality covered under this Division 1 may make or enforce any rule or ordinance which will in any way inhibit or prohibit any employee from exercising his full political rights to engage in political activities, including the right to petition, make speeches, campaign door to door, and to run for public office, so long as the employee does not use his official position to coerce or influence others and does not engage in these activities while he is at work on duty.
(Source: P.A. 84-1018.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-28

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-28) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-28)
    Sec. 10-1-28. No person shall solicit, orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, contribution or payment for any party or any political purpose whatever, from any officer or employee in any department of the government of any municipality which adopts this Division 1.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-29

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-29) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-29)
    Sec. 10-1-29. No person shall, in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee in any municipality which adopts this Division 1, solicit, orally or by written communication, delivered 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 under the government of such municipality, who may have charge or control of any building, office, or room, occupied for any purpose of such government, shall permit any person to enter the same for the purpose of therein soliciting or delivering written solicitations for receiving or giving notice of any political assessments.
(Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-30

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-30) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-30)
    Sec. 10-1-30. No officer or employee in the service of such municipality shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any officer or employee in such service, or to any senator or representative or alderperson, councilman, trustee 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.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-31

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-31) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-31)
    Sec. 10-1-31. No officer or employee of such municipality 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 any money or other valuable thing for any party or political purpose, or for refusal or neglect to render any party or political service.
(Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-32

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-32) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-32)
    Sec. 10-1-32. No applicant for appointment in the classified civil service, 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 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: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-33

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-33) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-33)
    Sec. 10-1-33. No applicant for appointment or promotion in the classified civil service shall ask for or receive a recommendation or assistance from any officer or employee in the 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 appointment.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-34

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-34) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-34)
    Sec. 10-1-34. No person while holding any office in the government of such municipality, or in nomination for, or while seeking a nomination for, or appointment to any such office, shall corruptly use or promise to use, either directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence, whether then possessed or merely anticipated, in the way of conferring upon any person, or in order to secure or aid any person in securing any office or public employment, or any nomination, confirmation, promotion or increase of salary upon the consideration or condition that the vote or political influence or action of the last named person or any other shall be given or used in behalf of any candidate, officer or party, or upon any other corrupt condition or consideration.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-35

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-35) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-35)
    Sec. 10-1-35. 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 this Division 1.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-36

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-36) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-36)
    Sec. 10-1-36. The commission shall certify to the comptroller or other auditing officers, all appointments to offices and places in the classified civil service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal or resignation or death, and all findings made or approved by the commission under the provisions of Section 10-1-18, that a person shall be discharged from the classified civil service.
    In no event shall any person who is classified by his local selective service draft board as a conscientious objector, or who has ever been so classified, be appointed to the police department.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3222.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-37

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-37) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-37)
    Sec. 10-1-37. No comptroller or other auditing officer of a municipality which has adopted this Division 1 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 such municipality, unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment according to the provisions of law and is entitled to payment therefor.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-38

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-38) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-38)
    Sec. 10-1-38. No paymaster, treasurer or other officer or agent of a municipality which has adopted this Division 1 shall wilfully pay, or be in any manner concerned in paying any person any salary or wages for services as an officer or employee of such municipality, unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment according to the provisions of law and is entitled to payment therefor.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 3252.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-38.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-38.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-38.1)
    Sec. 10-1-38.1. When the force of the Fire Department or of the Police Department is reduced, and positions displaced or abolished, seniority shall prevail, and the officers and members so reduced in rank, or removed from the service of the Fire Department or of the Police Department shall be considered furloughed without pay from the positions from which they were reduced or removed.
    Such reductions and removals shall be in strict compliance with seniority and in no event shall any officer or member be reduced more than one rank in a reduction of force. Officers and members with the least seniority in the position to be reduced shall be reduced to the next lower rated position. For purposes of determining which officers and members will be reduced in rank, seniority shall be determined by adding the time spent at the rank or position from which the officer or member is to be reduced and the time spent at any higher rank or position in the Department. For purposes of determining which officers or members in the lowest rank or position shall be removed from the Department in the event of a layoff, length of service in the Department shall be the basis for determining seniority, with the least senior such officer or member being the first so removed and laid off. Such officers or members laid off shall have their names placed on an appropriate reemployment list in the reverse order of dates of layoff.
    If any positions which have been vacated because of reduction in forces or displacement and abolition of positions, are reinstated, such members and officers of the Fire Department or of the Police Department as are furloughed from the said positions shall be notified by registered mail of such reinstatement of positions and shall have prior right to such positions if otherwise qualified, and in all cases seniority shall prevail. Written application for such reinstated position must be made by the furloughed person within 30 days after notification as above provided and such person may be required to submit to examination by physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, or physician assistants of both the commission and the appropriate pension board to determine his physical fitness.
(Source: P.A. 99-581, eff. 1-1-17; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-39

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-39) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-39)
    Sec. 10-1-39. 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 commissioner 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 10-1-18 or 10-1-20, and who shall refuse or neglect to appear or to testify, or to produce books and papers relevant to the investigation, as commanded in such subpoena, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished as provided in Section 10-1-40. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before the circuit courts of this state and shall be paid from the appropriation for the expenses of the commission. Any circuit court of this state upon application of any such commissioner, or officer or board, may in his 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: Laws 1967, p. 3762.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-40

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-40) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-40)
    Sec. 10-1-40. Any person who wilfully, or through culpable negligence violates any of the provisions of this Division 1 or any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof, other than Section 10-1-16, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Any person who wilfully or through culpable negligence violates any of the provisions of Section 10-1-16 of this Code, or any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 85-372.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-41

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-41) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-41)
    Sec. 10-1-41. If any person is convicted for violating any of the provisions of this Division 1, or rules adopted pursuant thereto, 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 5 years from the date of such conviction.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-42

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-42) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-42)
    Sec. 10-1-42. Prosecutions for violations of this Division 1 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: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-43

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-43) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-43)
    Sec. 10-1-43. The electors of any municipality may adopt and become entitled to the benefits of this Division 1 in the following manner: Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters of such municipality, voting at the last preceding election petition the circuit court for the county in which the municipality is located to order submitted to a vote of the electors of such municipality the proposition as to whether such municipality and the electors thereof shall adopt and become entitled to the benefits of this Division 1, the circuit court shall order such proposition certified and submitted accordingly at the next succeeding election in accordance with the general election law, and if such proposition is not adopted at such election the same shall in like manner be ordered to a vote of the electors of such municipality by the circuit court upon like application at any election thereafter, and an order shall be entered of record in the circuit court for the submission of such proposition as aforesaid. The clerk of the circuit court shall certify the proposition for submission.
    If the required number of 1,000 electors exceeds a number equal to 1/8 of the legal voters of any such municipality voting at the last preceding municipal election, then such petition or application need not be signed or made by more than 1/8 of the legal voters of such municipality voting at the last preceding municipal election.
    If this Division 1 is adopted by a municipality that before adoption was subject to the provisions of Division 2.1 of this Article 10, the provisions of this Division 1 shall apply except as to the board of fire and police commissioners and firemen and policemen. The provisions of Division 2.1 shall continue to apply to the board of fire and police commissioners and firemen and policemen.
    A municipality that has adopted this Division 1 may abolish it in the same manner prescribed for its adoption.
(Source: P.A. 88-264.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-44

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-44) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-44)
    Sec. 10-1-44. (a) Proclamation to adopt. If a majority of the votes cast upon a proposition to adopt shall be for the proposition, this Division 1 shall be adopted by the municipality, and the mayor shall then issue a proclamation declaring this Division 1 in force in the municipality.
    (b) Proclamation to abolish. If a majority of the votes cast upon a proposition to abolish shall be for the proposition, this Division 1 shall be abolished by the municipality, and the mayor shall then issue a proclamation declaring this Division 1 abolished in the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 88-264.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-45

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-45) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-45)
    Sec. 10-1-45. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of a Civil Service Commission, or of the Police Board of a city of more than 500,000 population. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-46

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-46) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-46)
    Sec. 10-1-46. An employee who is injured while in the performance of his duties and because of such injury is temporarily unable to continue his duties or who enters the military or naval service of the United States because of a war in which the United States is a party belligerent or as required by any Act of Congress shall, upon written application to the commission, be granted a disability or military leave, as the case may be.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 1116.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-47

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-47) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-47)
    Sec. 10-1-47. An employee who has been on disability leave or military leave granted by the commission and who wishes to return to active duty in his certified position shall be credited with seniority for the period of such leave and, if otherwise qualified, shall be reinstated to his certified position at the rank or grade held at the start of the leave, not more than 60 days after his written request for reinstatement is filed with the commission. Such request shall be filed not more than 30 days after termination of the disability or military or naval service.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 1116.)

65 ILCS 5/10-1-48

    (65 ILCS 5/10-1-48) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-48)
    Sec. 10-1-48. This division is subject to the provisions of the Illinois Police Training Act and the provisions of the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act.
    Public Act 78-951 is not a limit on any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 2.1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 2.1 heading)
DIVISION 2.1. BOARD OF FIRE AND POLICE
COMMISSIONERS

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-1)
    Sec. 10-2.1-1. Appointment-Terms of office.
    In every municipality with a population of at least 5,000 and not more than 250,000 which is not subject to Division 1 of this Article, and in every municipality with a population of less than 5,000 which adopts this Division 2.1 as provided in Section 10-2.1-27, including in either event any municipality incorporated and existing under a special charter, the mayor of the city, with the consent of the city council or the president of the village or incorporated town, with the consent of the board of trustees, shall appoint a board of fire and police commissioners. This board shall consist of 3 members, whose terms of office shall be 3 years and until their respective successors are appointed and have qualified, except as provided in Section 10-2.1-2. No such appointment, however, shall be made by any mayor or president within 30 days before the expiration of his term of office.
(Source: P.A. 76-1445.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-2)
    Sec. 10-2.1-2. First appointments.
    Within 30 days after this Division 2.1 becomes effective in a municipality, the mayor or president, as the case may be, shall appoint the first members of the board. One of the members shall be appointed to serve until the end of the then current municipal year, another to serve until the end of the municipal year next ensuing, and the third to serve until the end of the municipal year second next ensuing. But every member shall serve until his successor is appointed and has qualified.
    Vacancies on the board of fire and police commissioners shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
    The board members shall elect a chairman to serve during the municipal fiscal year.
    A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the conduct of all business.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3422.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-3)
    Sec. 10-2.1-3. Qualifications - Oath - Bond - Removal. The members of the board shall be considered officers of the municipality, and shall file an oath and a fidelity bond in such amount as may be required by the governing body of the municipality.
    No person holding an office under a municipality, shall be a member of the board of fire and police commissioners or the Secretary thereof. The acceptance of any such office by a member of the board shall be treated as a resignation of his office as a member of the board or the Secretary thereof. No person shall be appointed a member of the board of fire and police commissioners who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of this State or comparable laws of any other state or the United States. No person shall be appointed a member of the board of fire and police commissioners who is related, either by blood or marriage up to the degree of first cousin, to any elected official of such municipality. No more than 2 members of the board shall belong to the same political party existing in such municipality at the time of such appointments and as defined in Section 10-2 of The Election Code. If only one or no political party exists in such municipality at the time of such appointments, then state or national political party affiliations shall be considered in making such appointments. Party affiliation shall be determined by affidavit of the person appointed as a member of the board.
    Members shall not be subject to removal, except for cause, upon written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard within 30 days in his or their own defense, before a regular meeting of the governing body of the municipality for which they have been appointed. A majority vote of the elected members of such governing body shall be required to remove any such member from office.
(Source: P.A. 87-423.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-4)
    Sec. 10-2.1-4. Fire and police departments; appointment of members; certificates of appointments. The board of fire and police commissioners shall appoint all officers and members of the fire and police departments of the municipality, including the chief of police and the chief of the fire department, unless the council or board of trustees shall by ordinance as to them otherwise provide; except as otherwise provided in this Section, and except that in any municipality which adopts or has adopted this Division 2.1 and also adopts or has adopted Article 5 of this Code, the chief of police and the chief of the fire department shall be appointed by the municipal manager, if it is provided by ordinance in such municipality that such chiefs, or either of them, shall not be appointed by the board of fire and police commissioners.
    If the chief of the fire department or the chief of the police department or both of them are appointed in the manner provided by ordinance, they may be removed or discharged by the appointing authority. In such case the appointing authority shall file with the corporate authorities the reasons for such removal or discharge, which removal or discharge shall not become effective unless confirmed by a majority vote of the corporate authorities.
    After January 1, 2019 (the effective date of Public Act 100-1126), a person shall not be appointed as the chief, the acting chief, the department head, or a position, by whatever title, that is responsible for day-to-day operations of a fire department for greater than 180 days unless he or she possesses the following qualifications and certifications:
        (1) Office of the State Fire Marshal Basic Operations
    
Firefighter Certification or Office of the State Fire Marshal Firefighter II Certification; Office of the State Fire Marshal Advanced Fire Officer Certification or Office of the State Fire Marshal Fire Officer II Certification; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college;
        (2) a current certification from the International
    
Fire Service Accreditation Congress or Pro Board Fire Service Professional Qualifications System that meets the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, Level I job performance requirements; a current certification from the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress or Pro Board Fire Service Professional Qualifications System that meets the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Fire Officer II job performance requirements; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college;
        (3) qualifications that meet the National Fire
    
Protection Association standard NFPA 1001, Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, Level I job performance requirements; qualifications that meet the National Fire Protection Association standard NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, Fire Officer II job performance requirements; and an associate degree in fire science or a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college; or
        (4) a minimum of 10 years' experience as a
    
firefighter at the fire department in the jurisdiction making the appointment.
This paragraph applies to fire departments that employ firefighters hired under the provisions of this Division. On and after January 1, 2019 (the effective date of Public Act 100-1126), a home rule municipality may not appoint a fire chief, an acting chief, a department head, or a position, by whatever title, that is responsible for day-to-day operations of a fire department for greater than 180 days in a manner inconsistent with this paragraph. This paragraph is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
    If a member of the department is appointed chief of police or chief of the fire department prior to being eligible to retire on pension, he shall be considered as on furlough from the rank he held immediately prior to his appointment as chief. If he resigns as chief or is discharged as chief prior to attaining eligibility to retire on pension, he shall revert to and be established in whatever rank he currently holds, except for previously appointed positions, and thereafter be entitled to all the benefits and emoluments of that rank, without regard as to whether a vacancy then exists in that rank.
    All appointments to each department other than that of the lowest rank, however, shall be from the rank next below that to which the appointment is made except as otherwise provided in this Section, and except that the chief of police and the chief of the fire department may be appointed from among members of the police and fire departments, respectively, regardless of rank, unless the council or board of trustees shall have by ordinance as to them otherwise provided. A chief of police or the chief of the fire department, having been appointed from among members of the police or fire department, respectively, shall be permitted, regardless of rank, to take promotional exams and be promoted to a higher classified rank than he currently holds, without having to resign as chief of police or chief of the fire department.
    The sole authority to issue certificates of appointment shall be vested in the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners and all certificates of appointments issued to any officer or member of the fire or police department of a municipality shall be signed by the chairman and secretary respectively of the board of fire and police commissioners of such municipality, upon appointment of such officer or member of the fire and police department of such municipality by action of the board of fire and police commissioners. After being selected from the register of eligibles to fill a vacancy in the affected department, each appointee shall be presented with his or her certificate of appointment on the day on which he or she is sworn in as a classified member of the affected department. Firefighters who were not issued a certificate of appointment when originally appointed shall be provided with a certificate within 10 days after making a written request to the chairperson of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. In any municipal fire department that employs full-time firefighters and is subject to a collective bargaining agreement, a person who has not qualified for regular appointment under the provisions of this Division 2.1 shall not be used as a temporary or permanent substitute for classified members of a municipality's fire department or for regular appointment as a classified member of a municipality's fire department unless mutually agreed to by the employee's certified bargaining agent. Such agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining. Municipal fire departments covered by the changes made by Public Act 95-490 that are using non-certificated employees as substitutes immediately prior to June 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-490) may, by mutual agreement with the certified bargaining agent, continue the existing practice or a modified practice and that agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining. A home rule unit may not regulate the hiring of temporary or substitute members of the municipality's fire department in a manner that is inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
    The term "policemen" as used in this Division does not include auxiliary police officers except as provided for in Section 10-2.1-6.
    Any full-time member of a regular fire or police department of any municipality which comes under the provisions of this Division or adopts this Division 2.1 or which has adopted any of the prior Acts pertaining to fire and police commissioners, is a city officer.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Chief of Police of a department in a non-home rule municipality of more than 130,000 inhabitants may, without the advice or consent of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, appoint up to 6 officers who shall be known as deputy chiefs or assistant deputy chiefs, and whose rank shall be immediately below that of Chief. The deputy or assistant deputy chiefs may be appointed from any rank of sworn officers of that municipality, but no person who is not such a sworn officer may be so appointed. Such deputy chief or assistant deputy chief shall have the authority to direct and issue orders to all employees of the Department holding the rank of captain or any lower rank. A deputy chief of police or assistant deputy chief of police, having been appointed from any rank of sworn officers of that municipality, shall be permitted, regardless of rank, to take promotional exams and be promoted to a higher classified rank than he currently holds, without having to resign as deputy chief of police or assistant deputy chief of police.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a non-home rule municipality of 130,000 or fewer inhabitants, through its council or board of trustees, may, by ordinance, provide for a position of deputy chief to be appointed by the chief of the police department. The ordinance shall provide for no more than one deputy chief position if the police department has fewer than 25 full-time police officers and for no more than 2 deputy chief positions if the police department has 25 or more full-time police officers. The deputy chief position shall be an exempt rank immediately below that of Chief. The deputy chief may be appointed from any rank of sworn, full-time officers of the municipality's police department, but must have at least 5 years of full-time service as a police officer in that department. A deputy chief shall serve at the discretion of the Chief and, if removed from the position, shall revert to the rank currently held, without regard as to whether a vacancy exists in that rank. A deputy chief of police, having been appointed from any rank of sworn full-time officers of that municipality's police department, shall be permitted, regardless of rank, to take promotional exams and be promoted to a higher classified rank than he currently holds, without having to resign as deputy chief of police.
    No municipality having a population less than 1,000,000 shall require that any firefighter appointed to the lowest rank serve a probationary employment period of longer than one year. The limitation on periods of probationary employment provided in Public Act 86-990 is an exclusive power and function of the State. Pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, a home rule municipality having a population less than 1,000,000 must comply with this limitation on periods of probationary employment, which is a denial and limitation of home rule powers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the probationary employment period limitation may be extended for a firefighter who is required, as a condition of employment, to be a licensed paramedic, during which time the sole reason that a firefighter may be discharged without a hearing is for failing to meet the requirements for paramedic licensure.
    To the extent that this Section or any other Section in this Division conflicts with Section 10-2.1-6.3 or 10-2.1-6.4, then Section 10-2.1-6.3 or 10-2.1-6.4 shall control.
(Source: P.A. 100-252, eff. 8-22-17; 100-425, eff. 8-25-17; 100-863, eff, 8-14-18; 100-1126, eff. 1-1-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-5)
    Sec. 10-2.1-5. Rules-publications. The board shall make rules (1) to carry out the purpose of this Division 2.1, and (2) for appointments and removals in accordance with the provisions of this Division 2.1. The board, from time to time, may make changes in these rules.
    All these rules and changes therein shall be printed immediately for distribution. The board shall give notice (1) of the places where the printed rules may be obtained, and (2) of the date, not less than 10 days subsequent to the time of publication, when the rules or changes therein shall go into operation. This notice shall be published in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality.
    These rules of the board shall apply only to the conduct of examinations for original appointments, for promotions, and to the conduct of hearings on charges brought against a member of the police or fire department. No such rule shall be made by the board to govern the operation of the police or fire department or the conduct of its members unless the governing body of the municipality specifically authorizes the board of fire and police commissioners to make such rules; however, the governing body may also rescind such authorization. The Board may, however, provide rules for the appointment of persons at least 16 years of age to part-time positions within the cadet training program of the fire department of the municipality, provided such training program is conducted in conjunction with the Diversified Occupational Program of the local High School District and with the Illinois State Vocational Education System.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 78-402.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-5.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-5.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-5.1)
    Sec. 10-2.1-5.1. No municipality covered under this Division 2.1 may make or enforce any rule or ordinance which will in any way inhibit or prohibit any employee from exercising his full political rights to engage in political activities, including the right to petition, make speeches, campaign door to door, and to run for public office, so long as the employee does not use his official position to coerce or influence others and does not engage in these activities while he is at work on duty.
(Source: P.A. 84-1018.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-6)
    Sec. 10-2.1-6. Examination of applicants; disqualifications.
    (a) All applicants for a position in either the fire or police department of the municipality shall be under 35 years of age, shall be subject to an examination that shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants (unless the council or board of trustees by ordinance limit applicants to electors of the municipality, county, state, or nation) and shall be subject to reasonable limitations as to residence, health, habits, and moral character. An individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law or is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to (i) all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject and (ii) the individual being authorized under federal law to obtain, carry, or purchase or otherwise possess a firearm. The municipality may not charge or collect any fee from an applicant who has met all prequalification standards established by the municipality for any such position. With respect to a police department, a veteran shall be allowed to exceed the maximum age provision of this Section by the number of years served on active military duty, but by no more than 10 years of active military duty.
    (b) Residency requirements in effect at the time an individual enters the fire or police service of a municipality (other than a municipality that has more than 1,000,000 inhabitants) cannot be made more restrictive for that individual during his period of service for that municipality, or be made a condition of promotion, except for the rank or position of Fire or Police Chief.
    (c) No person with a record of misdemeanor convictions except those under Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-30, 11-35, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1, 24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, and 32-8, subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3, and paragraphs (1), (6), and (8) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or arrested for any cause but not convicted on that cause shall be disqualified from taking the examination to qualify for a position in the fire department on grounds of habits or moral character.
    (d) The age limitation in subsection (a) does not apply (i) to any person previously employed as a policeman or fireman in a regularly constituted police or fire department of (I) any municipality, regardless of whether the municipality is located in Illinois or in another state, or (II) a fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of the Fire Protection District Act, (ii) to any person who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer fireman for 5 years immediately preceding the time that municipality begins to use full time firemen to provide all or part of its fire protection service, or (iii) to any person who has served as an auxiliary police officer under Section 3.1-30-20 for at least 5 years and is under 40 years of age, (iv) to any person who has served as a deputy under Section 3-6008 of the Counties Code and otherwise meets necessary training requirements, or (v) to any person who has served as a sworn officer as a member of the Illinois State Police.
    (e) Applicants who are 20 years of age and who have successfully completed 2 years of law enforcement studies at an accredited college or university may be considered for appointment to active duty with the police department. An applicant described in this subsection (e) who is appointed to active duty shall not have power of arrest, nor shall the applicant be permitted to carry firearms, until he or she reaches 21 years of age.
    (f) Applicants who are 18 years of age and who have successfully completed 2 years of study in fire techniques, amounting to a total of 4 high school credits, within the cadet program of a municipality may be considered for appointment to active duty with the fire department of any municipality.
    (g) The council or board of trustees may by ordinance provide that persons residing outside the municipality are eligible to take the examination.
    (h) The examinations shall be practical in character and relate to those matters that will fairly test the capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the positions to which they seek appointment. No person shall be appointed to the police or fire department if he or she does not possess a high school diploma or an equivalent high school education. A board of fire and police commissioners may, by its rules, require police applicants to have obtained an associate's degree or a bachelor's degree as a prerequisite for employment. The examinations shall include tests of physical qualifications and health. A board of fire and police commissioners may, by its rules, waive portions of the required examination for police applicants who have previously been full-time sworn officers of a regular police department in any municipal, county, university, or State law enforcement agency, provided they are certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board and have been with their respective law enforcement agency within the State for at least 2 years. No person shall be appointed to the police or fire department if he or she has suffered the amputation of any limb unless the applicant's duties will be only clerical or as a radio operator. No applicant shall be examined concerning his or her political or religious opinions or affiliations. The examinations shall be conducted by the board of fire and police commissioners of the municipality as provided in this Division 2.1.
    The requirement that a police applicant possess an associate's degree under this subsection may be waived if one or more of the following applies: (1) the applicant has served for 24 months of honorable active duty in the United States Armed Forces and has not been discharged dishonorably or under circumstances other than honorable; (2) the applicant has served for 180 days of active duty in the United States Armed Forces in combat duty recognized by the Department of Defense and has not been discharged dishonorably or under circumstances other than honorable; or (3) the applicant has successfully received credit for a minimum of 60 credit hours toward a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
    The requirement that a police applicant possess a bachelor's degree under this subsection may be waived if one or more of the following applies: (1) the applicant has served for 36 months of honorable active duty in the United States Armed Forces and has not been discharged dishonorably or under circumstances other than honorable or (2) the applicant has served for 180 days of active duty in the United States Armed Forces in combat duty recognized by the Department of Defense and has not been discharged dishonorably or under circumstances other than honorable.
    (i) No person who is classified by his local selective service draft board as a conscientious objector, or who has ever been so classified, may be appointed to the police department.
    (j) No person shall be appointed to the police or fire department unless he or she is a person of good character and not an habitual drunkard, gambler, or a person who has been convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. No person, however, shall be disqualified from appointment to the fire department because of his or her record of misdemeanor convictions except those under Sections 11-1.50, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-30, 11-35, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1, 24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, and 32-8, subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2)(C) of Section 11-14.3, and paragraphs (1), (6), and (8) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or arrest for any cause without conviction on that cause. Any such person who is in the department may be removed on charges brought and after a trial as provided in this Division 2.1.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 103-357, eff. 1-1-24.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-6.1)
    Sec. 10-2.1-6.1. A classifiable set of the fingerprints of every person who is now employed, or who hereafter becomes employed, as a full time member of a regular fire or police department of any municipality in this State, whether with or without compensation, shall be furnished to the Illinois State Police and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the board of fire or police commissioners or other appropriate appointing authority, as the case may be.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-6.2)
    Sec. 10-2.1-6.2. Whenever the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners is authorized or required by law to consider some aspect of criminal history record information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory powers and responsibilities, then, upon request and payment of fees in conformance with the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the Illinois State Police Law, the Illinois State Police is authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive identification, such information contained in State files as is necessary to fulfill the request.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.3)
    Sec. 10-2.1-6.3. Original appointments; full-time fire department.
    (a) Applicability. Unless a commission elects to follow the provisions of Section 10-2.1-6.4, this Section shall apply to all original appointments to an affected full-time fire department. Existing registers of eligibles shall continue to be valid until their expiration dates, or up to a maximum of 2 years after August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251).
    Notwithstanding any statute, ordinance, rule, or other law to the contrary, all original appointments to an affected department to which this Section applies shall be administered in the manner provided for in this Section. Provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code, municipal ordinances, and rules adopted pursuant to such authority and other laws relating to initial hiring of firefighters in affected departments shall continue to apply to the extent they are compatible with this Section, but in the event of a conflict between this Section and any other law, this Section shall control.
    A home rule or non-home rule municipality may not administer its fire department process for original appointments in a manner that is less stringent than this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of the powers and functions exercised by the State.
    A municipality that is operating under a court order or consent decree regarding original appointments to a full-time fire department before August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251) is exempt from the requirements of this Section for the duration of the court order or consent decree.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection (a), this Section does not apply to a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
    (b) Original appointments. All original appointments made to an affected fire department shall be made from a register of eligibles established in accordance with the processes established by this Section. Only persons who meet or exceed the performance standards required by this Section shall be placed on a register of eligibles for original appointment to an affected fire department.
    Whenever an appointing authority authorizes action to hire a person to perform the duties of a firefighter or to hire a firefighter-paramedic to fill a position that is a new position or vacancy due to resignation, discharge, promotion, death, the granting of a disability or retirement pension, or any other cause, the appointing authority shall appoint to that position the person with the highest ranking on the final eligibility list. If the appointing authority has reason to conclude that the highest ranked person fails to meet the minimum standards for the position or if the appointing authority believes an alternate candidate would better serve the needs of the department, then the appointing authority has the right to pass over the highest ranked person and appoint either: (i) any person who has a ranking in the top 5% of the register of eligibles or (ii) any person who is among the top 5 highest ranked persons on the list of eligibles if the number of people who have a ranking in the top 5% of the register of eligibles is less than 5 people.
    Any candidate may pass on an appointment once without losing his or her position on the register of eligibles. Any candidate who passes a second time may be removed from the list by the appointing authority provided that such action shall not prejudice a person's opportunities to participate in future examinations, including an examination held during the time a candidate is already on the municipality's register of eligibles.
    The sole authority to issue certificates of appointment shall be vested in the board of fire and police commissioners. All certificates of appointment issued to any officer or member of an affected department shall be signed by the chairperson and secretary, respectively, of the board upon appointment of such officer or member to the affected department by action of the board. After being selected from the register of eligibles to fill a vacancy in the affected department, each appointee shall be presented with his or her certificate of appointment on the day on which he or she is sworn in as a classified member of the affected department. Firefighters who were not issued a certificate of appointment when originally appointed shall be provided with a certificate within 10 days after making a written request to the chairperson of the board of fire and police commissioners. Each person who accepts a certificate of appointment and successfully completes his or her probationary period shall be enrolled as a firefighter and as a regular member of the fire department.
    For the purposes of this Section, "firefighter" means any person who has been prior to, on, or after August 4, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act 97-251) appointed to a fire department or fire protection district or employed by a State university and sworn or commissioned to perform firefighter duties or paramedic duties, or both, except that the following persons are not included: part-time firefighters; auxiliary, reserve, or voluntary firefighters, including paid-on-call firefighters; clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of a fire department or fire protection district who are not routinely expected to perform firefighter duties; and elected officials.
    (c) Qualification for placement on register of eligibles. The purpose of establishing a register of eligibles is to identify applicants who possess and demonstrate the mental aptitude and physical ability to perform the duties required of members of the fire department in order to provide the highest quality of service to the public. To this end, all applicants for original appointment to an affected fire department shall be subject to examination and testing which shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants unless the municipality shall by ordinance limit applicants to residents of the municipality, county or counties in which the municipality is located, State, or nation. Any examination and testing procedure utilized under subsection (e) of this Section shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. Municipalities may establish educational, emergency medical service licensure, and other prerequisites for participation in an examination or for hire as a firefighter. Any municipality may charge a fee to cover the costs of the application process.
    Residency requirements in effect at the time an individual enters the fire service of a municipality cannot be made more restrictive for that individual during his or her period of service for that municipality, or be made a condition of promotion, except for the rank or position of fire chief and for no more than 2 positions that rank immediately below that of the chief rank which are appointed positions pursuant to the Fire Department Promotion Act.
    No person who is 35 years of age or older shall be eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter unless the person has had previous employment status as a firefighter in the regularly constituted fire department of the municipality, except as provided in this Section. The age limitation does not apply to:
        (1) any person previously employed as a full-time
    
firefighter in a regularly constituted fire department of (i) any municipality or fire protection district located in Illinois, (ii) a fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of the Fire Protection District Act, or (iii) a municipality whose obligations were taken over by a fire protection district,
        (2) any person who has served a municipality as a
    
regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter, or
        (3) any person who turned 35 while serving as a
    
member of the active or reserve components of any of the branches of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Guard of any state, whose service was characterized as honorable or under honorable, if separated from the military, and is currently under the age of 40.
    No person who is under 21 years of age shall be eligible for employment as a firefighter.
    No applicant shall be examined concerning his or her political or religious opinions or affiliations. The examinations shall be conducted by the commissioners of the municipality or their designees and agents.
    No municipality shall require that any firefighter appointed to the lowest rank serve a probationary employment period of longer than one year of actual active employment, which may exclude periods of training, or injury or illness leaves, including duty related leave, in excess of 30 calendar days. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the probationary employment period limitation may be extended for a firefighter who is required, as a condition of employment, to be a licensed paramedic, during which time the sole reason that a firefighter may be discharged without a hearing is for failing to meet the requirements for paramedic licensure.
    In the event that any applicant who has been found eligible for appointment and whose name has been placed upon the final eligibility register provided for in this Section has not been appointed to a firefighter position within one year after the date of his or her physical ability examination, the commission may cause a second examination to be made of that applicant's physical ability prior to his or her appointment. If, after the second examination, the physical ability of the applicant shall be found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of the commission, the applicant shall not be appointed. The applicant's name may be retained upon the register of candidates eligible for appointment and when next reached for certification and appointment that applicant may be again examined as provided in this Section, and if the physical ability of that applicant is found to be less than the minimum standard fixed by the rules of the commission, the applicant shall not be appointed, and the name of the applicant shall be removed from the register.
    (d) Notice, examination, and testing components. Notice of the time, place, general scope, merit criteria for any subjective component, and fee of every examination shall be given by the commission, by a publication at least 2 weeks preceding the examination: (i) in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality, or (ii) on the municipality's Internet website. Additional notice of the examination may be given as the commission shall prescribe.
    The examination and qualifying standards for employment of firefighters shall be based on: mental aptitude, physical ability, preferences, moral character, and health. The mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components shall determine an applicant's qualification for and placement on the final register of eligibles. The examination may also include a subjective component based on merit criteria as determined by the commission. Scores from the examination must be made available to the public.
    (e) Mental aptitude. No person who does not possess at least a high school diploma or an equivalent high school education shall be placed on a register of eligibles. Examination of an applicant's mental aptitude shall be based upon a written examination. The examination shall be practical in character and relate to those matters that fairly test the capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties performed by members of a fire department. Written examinations shall be administered in a manner that ensures the security and accuracy of the scores achieved.
    (f) Physical ability. All candidates shall be required to undergo an examination of their physical ability to perform the essential functions included in the duties they may be called upon to perform as a member of a fire department. For the purposes of this Section, essential functions of the job are functions associated with duties that a firefighter may be called upon to perform in response to emergency calls. The frequency of the occurrence of those duties as part of the fire department's regular routine shall not be a controlling factor in the design of examination criteria or evolutions selected for testing. These physical examinations shall be open, competitive, and based on industry standards designed to test each applicant's physical abilities in the following dimensions:
        (1) Muscular strength to perform tasks and evolutions
    
that may be required in the performance of duties including grip strength, leg strength, and arm strength. Tests shall be conducted under anaerobic as well as aerobic conditions to test both the candidate's speed and endurance in performing tasks and evolutions. Tasks tested may be based on standards developed, or approved, by the local appointing authority.
        (2) The ability to climb ladders, operate from
    
heights, walk or crawl in the dark along narrow and uneven surfaces, and operate in proximity to hazardous environments.
        (3) The ability to carry out critical,
    
time-sensitive, and complex problem solving during physical exertion in stressful and hazardous environments. The testing environment may be hot and dark with tightly enclosed spaces, flashing lights, sirens, and other distractions.
    The tests utilized to measure each applicant's capabilities in each of these dimensions may be tests based on industry standards currently in use or equivalent tests approved by the Joint Labor-Management Committee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
    Physical ability examinations administered under this Section shall be conducted with a reasonable number of proctors and monitors, open to the public, and subject to reasonable regulations of the commission.
    (g) Scoring of examination components. Appointing authorities may create a preliminary eligibility register. A person shall be placed on the list based upon his or her passage of the written examination or the passage of the written examination and the physical ability component. Passage of the written examination means attaining the minimum score set by the commission. Minimum scores should be set by the commission so as to demonstrate a candidate's ability to perform the essential functions of the job. The minimum score set by the commission shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. The appointing authority may conduct the physical ability component and any subjective components subsequent to the posting of the preliminary eligibility register.
    The examination components for an initial eligibility register shall be graded on a 100-point scale. A person's position on the list shall be determined by the following: (i) the person's score on the written examination, (ii) the person successfully passing the physical ability component, and (iii) the person's results on any subjective component as described in subsection (d).
    In order to qualify for placement on the final eligibility register, an applicant's score on the written examination, before any applicable preference points or subjective points are applied, shall be at or above the minimum score as set by the commission. The local appointing authority may prescribe the score to qualify for placement on the final eligibility register, but the score shall not be less than the minimum score set by the commission.
    The commission shall prepare and keep a register of persons whose total score is not less than the minimum score for passage and who have passed the physical ability examination. These persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence based on the highest to the lowest total points scored on the mental aptitude, subjective component, and preference components of the test administered in accordance with this Section. No more than 60 days after each examination, an initial eligibility list shall be posted by the commission. The list shall include the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of the time of examination and subject to claim for preference credit.
    Commissions may conduct additional examinations, including without limitation a polygraph test, after a final eligibility register is established and before it expires with the candidates ranked by total score without regard to date of examination. No more than 60 days after each examination, an initial eligibility list shall be posted by the commission showing the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination and subject to claim for preference credit.
    (h) Preferences. The following are preferences:
        (1) Veteran preference. Persons who were engaged in
    
the military service of the United States for a period of at least one year of active duty and who were honorably discharged therefrom, or who are now or have been members on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service, shall be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department of an affected department.
        (2) Fire cadet preference. Persons who have
    
successfully completed 2 years of study in fire techniques or cadet training within a cadet program established under the rules of the Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC), as defined in Section 50 of the Fire Department Promotion Act, may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (3) Educational preference. Persons who have
    
successfully obtained an associate's degree in the field of fire service or emergency medical services, or a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university may be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (4) Paramedic preference. Persons who have obtained a
    
license as a paramedic shall be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department of an affected department providing emergency medical services.
        (5) Experience preference. All persons employed by a
    
municipality who have been paid-on-call or part-time certified Firefighter II, State of Illinois or nationally licensed EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, or any combination of those capacities shall be awarded 0.5 point for each year of successful service in one or more of those capacities, up to a maximum of 5 points. Certified Firefighter III and State of Illinois or nationally licensed paramedics shall be awarded one point per year up to a maximum of 5 points. Applicants from outside the municipality who were employed as full-time firefighters or firefighter-paramedics by a fire protection district or another municipality for at least 2 years shall be awarded 5 experience preference points. These additional points presuppose a rating scale totaling 100 points available for the eligibility list. If more or fewer points are used in the rating scale for the eligibility list, the points awarded under this subsection shall be increased or decreased by a factor equal to the total possible points available for the examination divided by 100.
        Upon request by the commission, the governing body of
    
the municipality or in the case of applicants from outside the municipality the governing body of any fire protection district or any other municipality shall certify to the commission, within 10 days after the request, the number of years of successful paid-on-call, part-time, or full-time service of any person. A candidate may not receive the full amount of preference points under this subsection if the amount of points awarded would place the candidate before a veteran on the eligibility list. If more than one candidate receiving experience preference points is prevented from receiving all of their points due to not being allowed to pass a veteran, the candidates shall be placed on the list below the veteran in rank order based on the totals received if all points under this subsection were to be awarded. Any remaining ties on the list shall be determined by lot.
        (6) Residency preference. Applicants whose principal
    
residence is located within the fire department's jurisdiction shall be preferred for appointment to and employment with the fire department.
        (7) Additional preferences. Up to 5 additional
    
preference points may be awarded for unique categories based on an applicant's experience or background as identified by the commission.
        (7.5) Apprentice preferences. A person who has
    
performed fire suppression service for a department as a firefighter apprentice and otherwise meets the qualifications for original appointment as a firefighter specified in this Section is eligible to be awarded up to 20 preference points. To qualify for preference points, an applicant shall have completed a minimum of 600 hours of fire suppression work on a regular shift for the affected fire department over a 12-month period. The fire suppression work must be in accordance with Section 10-2.1-4 of this Division and the terms established by a Joint Apprenticeship Committee included in a collective bargaining agreement agreed between the employer and its certified bargaining agent. An eligible applicant must apply to the Joint Apprenticeship Committee for preference points under this item. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall evaluate the merit of the applicant's performance, determine the preference points to be awarded, and certify the amount of points awarded to the commissioners. The commissioners may add the certified preference points to the final grades achieved by the applicant on the other components of the examination.
        (8) Scoring of preferences. The commission may give
    
preference for original appointment to persons designated in item (1) by adding to the final grade that they receive 5 points for the recognized preference achieved. The commission may give preference for original appointment to persons designated in item (7.5) by adding to the final grade the amount of points designated by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee as defined in item (7.5). The commission shall determine the number of preference points for each category, except items (1) and (7.5). The number of preference points for each category shall range from 0 to 5, except item (7.5). In determining the number of preference points, the commission shall prescribe that if a candidate earns the maximum number of preference points in all categories except item (7.5), that number may not be less than 10 nor more than 30. The commission shall give preference for original appointment to persons designated in items (2) through (7) by adding the requisite number of points to the final grade for each recognized preference achieved. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the commission in determining the final eligibility list and appointment from the eligibility list. The local appointing authority may prescribe the total number of preference points awarded under this Section, but the total number of preference points, except item (7.5), shall not be less than 10 points or more than 30 points. Apprentice preference points may be added in addition to other preference points awarded by the commission.
    No person entitled to any preference shall be required to claim the credit before any examination held under the provisions of this Section, but the preference may be given after the posting or publication of the initial eligibility list or register at the request of a person entitled to a credit before any certification or appointments are made from the eligibility register, upon the furnishing of verifiable evidence and proof of qualifying preference credit. Candidates who are eligible for preference credit may make a claim in writing within 10 days after the posting of the initial eligibility list, or the claim may be deemed waived. Final eligibility registers may be established after the awarding of verified preference points. However, apprentice preference credit earned subsequent to the establishment of the final eligibility register may be applied to the applicant's score upon certification by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee to the commission and the rank order of candidates on the final eligibility register shall be adjusted accordingly. All employment shall be subject to the commission's initial hire background review, including, but not limited to, criminal history, employment history, moral character, oral examination, and medical and psychological examinations, all on a pass-fail basis. The medical and psychological examinations must be conducted last, and may only be performed after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.
    Any person placed on an eligibility list who exceeds the age requirement before being appointed to a fire department shall remain eligible for appointment until the list is abolished, or his or her name has been on the list for a period of 2 years. No person who has attained the age of 35 years shall be inducted into a fire department, except as otherwise provided in this Section.
    The commission shall strike off the names of candidates for original appointment after the names have been on the list for more than 2 years.
    (i) Moral character. No person shall be appointed to a fire department unless he or she is a person of good character; not a habitual drunkard, a gambler, or a person who has been convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. However, no person shall be disqualified from appointment to the fire department because of the person's record of misdemeanor convictions except those under Sections 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 12-2, 12-6, 12-15, 14-4, 16-1, 21.1-3, 24-3.1, 24-5, 25-1, 28-3, 31-1, 31-4, 31-6, 31-7, 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, 32-8, and paragraphs (1), (6), and (8) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, or arrest for any cause without conviction thereon. Any such person who is in the department may be removed on charges brought for violating this subsection and after a trial as hereinafter provided.
    A classifiable set of the fingerprints of every person who is offered employment as a certificated member of an affected fire department whether with or without compensation, shall be furnished to the Illinois State Police and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the commission.
    Whenever a commission is authorized or required by law to consider some aspect of criminal history record information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory powers and responsibilities, then, upon request and payment of fees in conformance with the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Illinois State Police is authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive identification, the information contained in State files as is necessary to fulfill the request.
    (j) Temporary appointments. In order to prevent a stoppage of public business, to meet extraordinary exigencies, or to prevent material impairment of the fire department, the commission may make temporary appointments, to remain in force only until regular appointments are made under the provisions of this Division, but never to exceed 60 days. No temporary appointment of any one person shall be made more than twice in any calendar year.
    (k) A person who knowingly divulges or receives test questions or answers before a written examination, or otherwise knowingly violates or subverts any requirement of this Section, commits a violation of this Section and may be subject to charges for official misconduct.
    A person who is the knowing recipient of test information in advance of the examination shall be disqualified from the examination or discharged from the position to which he or she was appointed, as applicable, and otherwise subjected to disciplinary actions.
(Source: P.A. 101-489, eff. 8-23-19; 102-375, eff. 8-13-21; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-6.4)
    Sec. 10-2.1-6.4. Alternative procedure; original appointment; full-time firefighter.
    (a) Authority. The Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC), as defined in Section 50 of the Fire Department Promotion Act, may establish a community outreach program to market the profession of firefighter and firefighter-paramedic so as to ensure the pool of applicants recruited is of broad diversity and the highest quality. Nothing in this Section requires that the Joint Labor and Management Committee establish or operate the community outreach program or master register of eligibles, or to contract with a testing agency to establish or operate such program or register, unless the Joint Labor and Management Committee chooses to do so.
    For the purposes of this Section, "firefighter" means any person who has been prior to, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly appointed to a fire department or fire protection district or employed by a State university and sworn or commissioned to perform firefighter duties or paramedic duties, or both, except that the following persons are not included: part-time firefighters; auxiliary, reserve, or voluntary firefighters, including paid-on-call firefighters; clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of a fire department or fire protection district who are not routinely expected to perform firefighter duties; and elected officials.
    (b) Eligibility. Persons eligible for placement on the master register of eligibles shall consist of the following:
        Persons who have participated in and received a
    
passing total score on the mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components of a regionally administered test based on the standards described in this Section. The standards for administering these tests and the minimum passing score required for placement on this list shall be as is set forth in this Section.
        Qualified candidates shall be listed on the master
    
register of eligibles in highest to lowest rank order based upon their test scores without regard to their date of examination. Candidates listed on the master register of eligibles shall be eligible for appointment for 2 years after the date of the certification of their final score on the register without regard to the date of their examination. After 2 years, the candidate's name shall be struck from the list.
        Any person currently employed as a full-time member
    
of a fire department or any person who has experienced a non-voluntary (and non-disciplinary) separation from the active workforce due to a reduction in the number of departmental officers, who was appointed pursuant to Division 1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Fire Protection District Act, and who during the previous 24 months participated in and received a passing score on the physical ability and mental aptitude components of the test may request that his or her name be added to the master register. Any eligible person may be offered employment by a local commission under the same procedures as provided by this Section except that the apprenticeship period may be waived and the applicant may be immediately issued a certificate of original appointment by the local commission.
    (c) Qualifications for placement on register of eligibles. The purpose for establishing a master register of eligibles shall be to identify applicants who possess and demonstrate the mental aptitude and physical ability to perform the duties required of members of the fire department in order to provide the highest quality of service to the public. To this end, all applicants for original appointment to an affected fire department through examination conducted by the Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC) shall be subject to examination and testing which shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants. Any examination and testing procedure utilized under subsection (e) of this Section shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws. Any subjective component of the testing must be administered by certified assessors. All qualifying and disqualifying factors applicable to examination processes for local commissions in this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall be applicable to persons participating in Joint Labor and Management Committee examinations unless specifically provided otherwise in this Section.
    Notice of the time, place, general scope, and fee of every JLMC examination shall be given by the JLMC or designated testing agency, as applicable, by a publication at least 30 days preceding the examination, in one or more newspapers published in the region, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the region. The JLMC may publish the notice on the JLMC's Internet website. Additional notice of the examination may be given as the JLMC shall prescribe.
    (d) Examination and testing components for placement on register of eligibles. The examination and qualifying standards for placement on the master register of eligibles and employment shall be based on the following components: mental aptitude, physical ability, preferences, moral character, and health. The mental aptitude, physical ability, and preference components shall determine an applicant's qualification for and placement on the master register of eligibles. The consideration of an applicant's general moral character and health shall be administered on a pass-fail basis after a conditional offer of employment is made by a local commission.
    (e) Mental aptitude. Examination of an applicant's mental aptitude shall be based upon written examination and an applicant's prior experience demonstrating an aptitude for and commitment to service as a member of a fire department. Written examinations shall be practical in character and relate to those matters that fairly test the capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties performed by members of a fire department. Written examinations shall be administered in a manner that ensures the security and accuracy of the scores achieved. Any subjective component of the testing must be administered by certified assessors. No person who does not possess a high school diploma or an equivalent high school education shall be placed on a register of eligibles. Local commissions may establish educational, emergency medical service licensure, and other pre-requisites for hire within their jurisdiction.
    (f) Physical ability. All candidates shall be required to undergo an examination of their physical ability to perform the essential functions included in the duties they may be called upon to perform as a member of a fire department. For the purposes of this Section, essential functions of the job are functions associated with duties that a firefighter may be called upon to perform in response to emergency calls. The frequency of the occurrence of those duties as part of the fire department's regular routine shall not be a controlling factor in the design of examination criteria or evolutions selected for testing. These physical examinations shall be open, competitive, and based on industry standards designed to test each applicant's physical abilities in each of the following dimensions:
        (1) Muscular strength to perform tasks and evolutions
    
that may be required in the performance of duties including grip strength, leg strength, and arm strength. Tests shall be conducted under anaerobic as well as aerobic conditions to test both the candidate's speed and endurance in performing tasks and evolutions. Tasks tested are to be based on industry standards developed by the JLMC by rule.
        (2) The ability to climb ladders, operate from
    
heights, walk or crawl in the dark along narrow and uneven surfaces, and operate in proximity to hazardous environments.
        (3) The ability to carry out critical,
    
time-sensitive, and complex problem solving during physical exertion in stressful and hazardous environments. The testing environment may be hot and dark with tightly enclosed spaces, flashing lights, sirens, and other distractions.
    The tests utilized to measure each applicant's capabilities in each of these dimensions may be tests based on industry standards currently in use or equivalent tests approved by the Joint Labor-Management Committee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
    (g) Scoring of examination components. The examination components shall be graded on a 100-point scale. A person's position on the master register of eligibles shall be determined by the person's score on the written examination, the person successfully passing the physical ability component, and the addition of any applicable preference points.
    Applicants who have achieved at least the minimum score as set by the JLMC, and who successfully pass the physical ability examination shall be placed on the initial eligibility register. Minimum scores should be set by the commission so as to demonstrate a candidate's ability to perform the essential functions of the job. The minimum score set by the commission shall be supported by appropriate validation evidence and shall comply with all applicable State and federal laws. Applicable preference points shall be added to the written examination scores for all applicants who qualify for the initial eligibility register. Applicants who score at or above the minimum passing score as set by the JLMC, including any applicable preference points, shall be placed on the master register of eligibles by the JLMC.
    These persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence based on the highest to the lowest total points scored on the mental aptitude and physical ability components, plus any applicable preference points requested and verified by the JLMC, or approved testing agency.
    No more than 60 days after each examination, a revised master register of eligibles shall be posted by the JLMC showing the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination.
    (h) Preferences. The board shall give military, education, and experience preference points to those who qualify for placement on the master register of eligibles, on the same basis as provided for examinations administered by a local commission.
    No person entitled to preference or credit shall be required to claim the credit before any examination held under the provisions of this Section. The preference shall be given after the posting or publication of the applicant's initial score at the request of the person before finalizing the scores from all applicants taking part in a JLMC examination. Candidates who are eligible for preference credit shall make a claim in writing within 10 days after the posting of the initial scores from any JLMC test or the claim shall be deemed waived. Once preference points are awarded, the candidates shall be certified to the master register in accordance with their final score including preference points.
    (i) Firefighter apprentice and firefighter-paramedic apprentice. The employment of an applicant to an apprentice position (including a currently employed full-time member of a fire department whose apprenticeship may be reduced or waived) shall be subject to the applicant passing the moral character standards and health examinations of the local commission. In addition, a local commission may require as a condition of employment that the applicant demonstrate current physical ability by either passing the local commission's approved physical ability examination, or by presenting proof of participating in and receiving a passing score on the physical ability component of a JLMC test within a period of up to 12 months before the date of the conditional offer of employment. Applicants shall be subject to the local commission's initial hire background review including criminal history, employment history, moral character, oral examination, and medical examinations which may include polygraph, psychological, and drug screening components, all on a pass-fail basis. The medical examinations must be conducted last, and may only be performed after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.
    (j) Selection from list. Any municipality or fire protection district that is a party to an intergovernmental agreement under the terms of which persons have been tested for placement on the master register of eligibles shall be entitled to offer employment to any person on the list irrespective of their ranking on the list. The offer of employment shall be to the position of firefighter apprentice or firefighter-paramedic apprentice.
    Applicants passing these tests may be employed as a firefighter apprentice or a firefighter-paramedic apprentice who shall serve an apprenticeship period of 12 months or less according to the terms and conditions of employment as the employing municipality or district offers, or as provided for under the terms of any collective bargaining agreement then in effect. The apprenticeship period is separate from the probationary period.
    Service during the apprenticeship period shall be on a probationary basis. During the apprenticeship period, the apprentice's training and performance shall be monitored and evaluated by a Joint Apprenticeship Committee.
    The Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall consist of 4 members who shall be regular members of the fire department with at least 10 years of full-time work experience as a firefighter or firefighter-paramedic. The fire chief and the president of the exclusive bargaining representative recognized by the employer shall each appoint 2 members to the Joint Apprenticeship Committee. In the absence of an exclusive collective bargaining representative, the chief shall appoint the remaining 2 members who shall be from the ranks of company officer and firefighter with at least 10 years of work experience as a firefighter or firefighter-paramedic. In the absence of a sufficient number of qualified firefighters, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee members shall have the amount of experience and the type of qualifications as is reasonable given the circumstances of the fire department. In the absence of a full-time member in a rank between chief and the highest rank in a bargaining unit, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall be reduced to 2 members, one to be appointed by the chief and one by the union president, if any. If there is no exclusive bargaining representative, the chief shall appoint the second member of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee from among qualified members in the ranks of company officer and below. Before the conclusion of the apprenticeship period, the Joint Apprenticeship Committee shall meet to consider the apprentice's progress and performance and vote to retain the apprentice as a member of the fire department or to terminate the apprenticeship. If 3 of the 4 members of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee affirmatively vote to retain the apprentice (if a 2 member Joint Apprenticeship Committee exists, then both members must affirmatively vote to retain the apprentice), the local commission shall issue the apprentice a certificate of original appointment to the fire department.
    (k) A person who knowingly divulges or receives test questions or answers before a written examination, or otherwise knowingly violates or subverts any requirement of this Section, commits a violation of this Section and may be subject to charges for official misconduct.
    A person who is the knowing recipient of test information in advance of the examination shall be disqualified from the examination or discharged from the position to which he or she was appointed, as applicable, and otherwise subjected to disciplinary actions.
    (l) Applicability. This Section does not apply to a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
(Source: P.A. 102-188, eff. 1-1-22.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-7

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-7)
    Sec. 10-2.1-7. Exemption from examination. Any full time member of a regular fire or police department of any municipality which comes under the provisions of this Division or adopts this Division 2.1 or which has adopted any of the prior Acts pertaining to fire and police commissioners, or a full time member of a regular fire department of a fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of "An Act in Relation to Fire Protection Districts", who has served at least one year as a full time member of such department, shall become a member of the classified service of the fire or police department respectively, in the position held by him at the time such department or municipality comes under the provisions of this Division, without examination.
(Source: P.A. 77-244; 77-1438.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-7.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-7.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-7.1)
    Sec. 10-2.1-7.1. Persons transferred from the employment of a fire protection district by virtue of an Act entitled "An Act in Relation to Fire Protection Districts" under Section 21 as now or hereafter amended, shall without examination be assigned to the positions in the classified civil service or under the Fire and Police Commissioners Act of the municipality so far as may be practicable, having duties and responsibilities equivalent to their fire protection district employment. For the purpose of establishing the civil service status or classified service status under the board of fire and police commissioners of firemen transferred to the municipality, the rank of Chief of the Fire Department shall not be recognized. The appointment of the Chief of the Fire Department shall be subject to the ordinances of the transferee municipality in the appointment of the same. Employees so transferred shall have the same standing, grade, class or rank which they held in the classified service of the fire protection district from which they were transferred. For the purpose of determining seniority and class, grade or rank, each employee shall be credited with the time served by him on the date of such transfer and shall be given the position in the classified service as nearly comparable in responsibilities and duties to his former employment as it may be possible to approximate.
(Source: P.A. 77-244; 77-1438.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-8)
    Sec. 10-2.1-8. Veteran's and educational preference. Persons who have successfully obtained an associate's degree in the field of law enforcement, criminal justice, fire service, or emergency medical services, or a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; persons who have been awarded a certificate attesting to the successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course as provided in the Illinois Police Training Act and are currently serving as a law enforcement officer on a part-time or full-time basis within the State of Illinois; and persons who were engaged in the active military or naval service of the United States for a period of at least one year and who were honorably discharged therefrom, or who are now or may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service (not including, however, in the case of offices, positions and places of employment in the police department, persons who were convicted by court-martial of disobedience of orders, where such disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military service on the ground of religious or conscientious objections against war) shall be preferred for appointments to offices, positions, and places of employment in the fire and police departments of the municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 2.1. For purposes of this Section, if a person has been deployed, then "active duty military or naval service of the United States" includes training and service school attendance, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(d), which is ordered pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 12301(d). The preference points awarded under this Section shall not be cumulative.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    Persons who have participated in that municipality's police explorer or cadet program may be preferred, for a maximum of 2 points, for appointments to offices, positions, and places of employment in municipal police departments under the provisions of this Division.
(Source: P.A. 98-231, eff. 8-9-13.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9)
    Sec. 10-2.1-9. Original appointments; Preferences; Limitation.
    (a) The board of fire and police commissioners shall give preference for original appointment to persons designated in Section 10-2.1-8 whose names appear on any register of eligibles resulting from an examination for original entrance in the classified service of the fire and police departments of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 2.1 by adding to the final grade average which they receive or will receive as the result of any examination held for original entrance, 5 points. The board shall also give preference to persons eligible under subsection (b) as provided in that subsection. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the board of fire and police commissioners in determining the position of such persons on any eligibility list which has been created as the result of any examination for original entrance for purposes of preference in certification and appointment from such eligibility list. The board shall strike off the names of candidates for original appointment after such names have been on the list for more than 2 years.
    (b) All persons who, on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993, have been paid-on-call certified firefighters II, paramedics, or any combination of those capacities, of the municipality shall be awarded 0.5 point for each year of successful service in one or more of those capacities, up to a maximum of 5 points at the time of examination for original appointment to the classified service of the fire department. Certified firefighters III shall be awarded one point per year up to a maximum of 5 points. Applicants from outside the municipality who were employed as full-time firefighters or firefighter-paramedics by a fire protection district or another municipality for at least 2 years shall have the same preference as paid-on-call personnel. These additional points presuppose a rating scale totalling 100 points available for the eligibility list. If more or fewer points are used in the rating scale for the eligibility list, the points awarded under this subsection shall be increased or decreased by a factor equal to the total possible points available for the examination divided by 100.
    No person entitled to additional points under this subsection shall be required to claim that preference or credit before an examination is held. The preference shall be given after the posting or publication of the eligibility list. To qualify for the preference, applicants who are eligible for credit under this subsection shall make a claim for that credit, in writing, within 10 days after the posting of the eligibility list, or the claim shall be deemed waived. Upon request by the board of fire and police commissioners, the governing body of the municipality or (in the case of applicants from outside the municipality) the governing body of any fire protection district or any other municipality shall certify to the board of fire and police commissioners, within 10 days of the request, the number of years of successful paid-on-call service of any person. A candidate may not receive preference points under this subsection if the amount of points awarded would place the candidate before a veteran on the eligibility list.
(Source: P.A. 88-440.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-10

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-10)
    Sec. 10-2.1-10. Promotional preferences. Every member of the classified service of the fire or police department of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 2.1 who was engaged in a military or naval service of the United States at anytime for a period of one year, and who was honorably discharged therefrom, who is now or who may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in such military or naval service, not including, however, persons who were convicted by court-martial of disobedience of orders where such disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military service on the ground of alleged religious or conscientious objections against war, and whose name appears on existing promotional eligibility registers or any promotional eligibility register that may hereafter be created as provided for by this Division 2.1 shall be preferred for promotional appointments of the fire or police department of any municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 2.1.
(Source: P.A. 76-1898.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-11

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-11)
    Sec. 10-2.1-11. Promotional examinations-Credits to veterans.) The board of fire and police commissioners shall give preference for promotional appointment to persons designated in Section 10-2.1-10 whose names appear on promotional eligibility registers by adding to the final grade average which they will receive as a result of any promotional examination 7/10 of one point for each 6 months or fraction thereof of military or naval service not exceeding 30 months. The numerical result thus attained shall be applied by the board of fire and police commissioners in determining the position of such persons on any eligibility list as the result of any promotional examination held for purposes of preference in certification and appointment from such eligibility list.
    No person shall receive the preference for a promotional appointment granted by this Division 2.1 after he has received one promotion from an eligibility list on which he was allowed such preference.
(Source: P.A. 79-702.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-12

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-12)
    Sec. 10-2.1-12. Preference-time for allowance. No person entitled to preference or credit for military or naval service shall be required to claim military credit for service in the armed forces before any examination held under the provisions of this Division 2.1 but such preference shall be given after the posting or publication of the eligibility list or register at the request of such person before any certification or appointments are made from the eligibility register, upon the furnishing of evidence of an honorable discharge from and proof of such service.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-13

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-13)
    Sec. 10-2.1-13. Notice of examination. Notice of the time and place of every examination shall be given by the board by a publication at least 2 weeks preceding the examination, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality, except on promotional examinations, notice may be waived in writing by all members of the fire or police department, for which the promotional examination is to be given.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-14

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-14)
    Sec. 10-2.1-14. Register of eligibles. The board of fire and police commissioners shall prepare and keep a register of persons whose general average standing, upon examination, is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of the board, and who are otherwise eligible. These persons shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence as determined by examination, without reference to priority of time of examination. The board of fire and police commissioners may prepare and keep a second register of persons who have previously been full-time sworn officers of a regular police department in any municipal, county, university, or State law enforcement agency, provided they are certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board and have been with their respective law enforcement agency within the State for at least 2 years. The persons on this list shall take rank upon the register as candidates in the order of their relative excellence as determined by members of the board of fire and police commissioners. Applicants who have been awarded a certificate attesting to their successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course, as provided in the Illinois Police Training Act, may be given preference in appointment over noncertified applicants. Applicants for appointment to fire departments who are licensed as an EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, or paramedic under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, may be given preference in appointment over non-licensed applicants.
    Within 60 days after each examination, an eligibility list shall be posted by the board, which shall show the final grades of the candidates without reference to priority of time of examination and subject to claim for military credit. Candidates who are eligible for military credit shall make a claim in writing within 10 days after the posting of the eligibility list or such claim shall be deemed waived. Appointment shall be subject to a final physical examination.
    If a person is placed on an eligibility list and becomes overage before he or she is appointed to a police or fire department, the person remains eligible for appointment until the list is abolished pursuant to authorized procedures. Otherwise no person who has attained the age of 36 years shall be inducted as a member of a police department and no person who has attained the age of 35 years shall be inducted as a member of a fire department, except as otherwise provided in this division. With respect to a police department, a veteran shall be allowed to exceed the maximum age provision of this Section by the number of years served on active military duty, but by no more than 10 years of active military duty.
(Source: P.A. 98-973, eff. 8-15-14.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-15

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-15)
    Sec. 10-2.1-15. The board, by its rules, shall provide for promotion in the fire and police departments on the basis of ascertained merit and seniority in service and examination, and shall provide in all cases, where it is practicable, that vacancies shall be filled by promotion. All examinations for promotion shall be competitive among such members of the next lower rank as desire to submit themselves to examination. All promotions shall be made from the 3 having the highest rating, and where there are less than 3 names on the promotional eligible register, as originally posted, or remaining thereon after appointments have been made therefrom, appointments to fill existing vacancies shall be made from those names or name remaining on the promotional register except that promotions made in any municipality with more than 130,000 but less than 2,000,000 population may be made from the 7 members having the highest rating. The method of examination and the rules governing examinations for promotion shall be the same as provided for applicants for original appointment, except that original appointments only shall be on probation, as provided by the rules. The board shall strike off the names of candidates for promotional appointment after they have remained thereon for more than 3 years, provided there is no vacancy existing which can be filled from the promotional register.
(Source: P.A. 83-761.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-16

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-16)
    Sec. 10-2.1-16. Temporary appointments. In order to prevent a stoppage of public business, to meet extraordinary exigencies, or to prevent material impairment of either the police or fire department, the board may make temporary appointments, to remain in force until regular appointments may be made under the provisions of this Division 2.1, but never to exceed 60 days. No temporary appointment of any one person shall be made more than twice in any calendar year.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3437.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-17

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-17)
    Sec. 10-2.1-17. Removal or discharge; investigation of charges; retirement. Except as hereinafter provided, no officer or member of the fire or police department of any municipality subject to this Division 2.1 shall be removed or discharged except for cause, upon written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. The hearing shall be as hereinafter provided, unless the employer and the labor organization representing the person have negotiated an alternative or supplemental form of due process based upon impartial arbitration as a term of a collective bargaining agreement. Such bargaining shall be mandatory unless the parties mutually agree otherwise. Any such alternative agreement shall be permissive.
    If the chief of the fire department or the chief of the police department or both of them are appointed in the manner provided by ordinance, they may be removed or discharged by the appointing authority. In such case the appointing authority shall file with the corporate authorities the reasons for such removal or discharge, which removal or discharge shall not become effective unless confirmed by a majority vote of the corporate authorities. The board of fire and police commissioners shall conduct a fair and impartial hearing of the charges, to be commenced within 30 days of the filing thereof, which hearing may be continued from time to time. In case an officer or member is found guilty, the board may discharge him, or may suspend him not exceeding 30 days without pay. The board may suspend any officer or member pending the hearing with or without pay, but not to exceed 30 days. If the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners determines that the charges are not sustained, the officer or member shall be reimbursed for all wages withheld, if any. In the conduct of this hearing, each member of the board shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations, and the board shall have power to secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to the hearing.
    The age for retirement of policemen or firemen in the service of any municipality which adopts this Division 2.1 is 65 years, unless the Council or Board of Trustees shall by ordinance provide for an earlier retirement age of not less than 60 years.
    The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the board of fire and police commissioners hereunder. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the chief of the fire department or the chief of the police department from suspending without pay a member of his department for a period of not more than 5 calendar days, but he shall notify the board in writing of such suspension. The hearing shall be as hereinafter provided, unless the employer and the labor organization representing the person have negotiated an alternative or supplemental form of due process based upon impartial arbitration as a term of a collective bargaining agreement. Such bargaining shall be mandatory unless the parties mutually agree otherwise. Any such alternative agreement shall be permissive.
    Any policeman or fireman so suspended may appeal to the board of fire and police commissioners for a review of the suspension within 5 calendar days after such suspension, and upon such appeal, the board may sustain the action of the chief of the department, may reverse it with instructions that the man receive his pay for the period involved, or may suspend the officer for an additional period of not more than 30 days or discharge him, depending upon the facts presented.
(Source: P.A. 95-356, eff. 8-23-07.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-18

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-18)
    Sec. 10-2.1-18. Fire or police departments - Reduction of force - Reinstatement. When the force of the fire department or of the police department is reduced, and positions displaced or abolished, seniority shall prevail and the officers and members so reduced in rank, or removed from the service of the fire department or of the police department shall be considered furloughed without pay from the positions from which they were reduced or removed.
    Such reductions and removals shall be in strict compliance with seniority and in no event shall any officer or member be reduced more than one rank in a reduction of force. Officers and members with the least seniority in the position to be reduced shall be reduced to the next lower rated position. For purposes of determining which officers and members will be reduced in rank, seniority shall be determined by adding the time spent at the rank or position from which the officer or member is to be reduced and the time spent at any higher rank or position in the Department. For purposes of determining which officers or members in the lowest rank or position shall be removed from the Department in the event of a layoff, length of service in the Department shall be the basis for determining seniority, with the least senior such officer or member being the first so removed and laid off. Such officers or members laid off shall have their names placed on an appropriate reemployment list in the reverse order of dates of layoff.
    If any positions which have been vacated because of reduction in forces or displacement and abolition of positions, are reinstated, such members and officers of the fire department or of the police department as are furloughed from the said positions shall be notified by the board by registered mail of such reinstatement of positions and shall have prior right to such positions if otherwise qualified, and in all cases seniority shall prevail. Written application for such reinstated position must be made by the furloughed person within 30 days after notification as above provided and such person may be required to submit to examination by physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, or physician assistants of both the board of fire and police commissioners and the appropriate pension board to determine his physical fitness.
(Source: P.A. 99-581, eff. 1-1-17; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-19

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-19)
    Sec. 10-2.1-19. Annual report-budget request. Annually, at any time the corporate authorities may provide, the board of fire and police commissioners shall submit to the mayor or president a report of its activities, and of the rules in force and the practical effect thereof. In this report the board may make suggestions which the board believes would result in greater efficiency in the fire or police department. The board shall also submit an annual budget request to the municipal governing body prior to the end of each fiscal year. The mayor or president shall transmit the report to the city council or board of trustees.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-20

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-20)
    Sec. 10-2.1-20. Secretary of board-duties-seal of board. The board may employ a secretary, or may designate one of its own members to act as secretary. The secretary (1) shall keep the minutes of the board's proceedings, (2) shall be the custodian of all records pertaining to the business of the board, (3) shall keep a record of all examinations held, (4) shall perform all other duties the board prescribes, and (5) shall be custodian of the seal of the board, if one is adopted, and the board is hereby authorized to adopt an official seal and to prescribe the form thereof by resolution of the board.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-21

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-21)
    Sec. 10-2.1-21. Rooms and funds for operation of boards. The corporate authorities shall provide suitable rooms for the board of fire and police commissioners, and shall allow reasonable use of public buildings for holding examinations by the board and shall further provide adequate funds in the annual appropriation ordinance for the operation of the board.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-22

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-22)
    Sec. 10-2.1-22. Compensation of secretary and members of board. The secretary may be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be fixed by the corporate authorities. The corporate authorities may also fix the compensation to be paid to the members of the board, but until the corporate authorities make provision therefor, the members of the board shall serve without compensation.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-23

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-23)
    Sec. 10-2.1-23. Disability or military leave-Grant by board. A person holding a position in a fire or police department who is injured while in the performance of his duties and because of such injury is temporarily unable to continue to perform his duties or who enters the military or naval service of the United States because of a war in which the United States is a party belligerent or as required by any Act of Congress shall, upon written application to the board, be granted a disability or military leave, as the case may be.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-24

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-24)
    Sec. 10-2.1-24. Return to active duty. A person who has been on disability or military leave granted by the board and who wishes to return to active duty in his certified position shall be credited with seniority for the period of such leave and, if otherwise qualified, shall be reinstated to his certified position at the rank or grade held at the start of the leave, not more than 60 days after his written request for reinstatement is filed with the board. Such request shall be filed not more than 30 days after termination of the disability or military or naval service.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-25

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-25)
    Sec. 10-2.1-25. Attorney for board. The municipal attorney, in the event there is a separate attorney designated as a prosecutor for such municipality, shall represent the board unless the board is authorized by the municipality to employ its own attorney, and such attorney shall handle prosecutions before the board, but in the event that the municipal attorney shall both represent the municipality and be prosecutor in such municipality, then and in such event the governing body is hereby authorized to employ an attorney of its own choosing to represent said board.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-26

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-26) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-26)
    Sec. 10-2.1-26. Application of the Act. The provisions of this Division shall apply only to full-time firemen and full-time policemen of a regularly constituted fire or police department and not to any other personnel of any kind or description.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-27

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-27) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-27)
    Sec. 10-2.1-27. Adoption. The electors of any municipality with less than 5,000 inhabitants may adopt this Division 2.1 in the following manner: Whenever the electors of such a municipality equal in number to 20% of the number of legal votes cast at the last preceding general municipal election petition the municipal clerk to submit the proposition whether that municipality shall adopt this Division 2.1, then the clerk shall certify the proposition to the proper election authority for submission at an election in accordance with the general election law. If the proposition is not adopted at that election, it may be submitted in like manner at any general municipal election thereafter.
    The proposition shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the city (or village
or incorporated town) of....                YES
adopt Division 2.1 of Article 10
of the Illinois Municipal Code           ---------------------
providing for the appointment
of a board of fire and                       NO
police commissioners?
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    If a majority of the votes cast on this proposition at any such election are for the proposition, this Division 2.1 is adopted in that municipality.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-28

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-28) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-28)
    Sec. 10-2.1-28. Savings clause-construction. The repeal of a statute or part thereof by this Act shall not affect any action pending or rights existing at the time this Act takes effect.
    The provisions of this Act insofar as they are the same or substantially the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation of such prior statute and not as a new enactment.
    If in any other statute reference is made to an Act of the General Assembly, or a Section of such an Act, which is continued in this Division, such reference shall be held to refer to the Division or Section thereof so continued in this Division.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2840.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-29

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-29) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-29)
    Sec. 10-2.1-29. Governing provisions. This Division is subject to the provisions of the "Illinois Police Training Act", approved August 18, 1965 and the provisions of the "Illinois Fire Protection Training Act", certified November 9, 1971.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit on any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 78-951.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-30

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-30) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-30)
    Sec. 10-2.1-30. Any full time member of a regular fire department of a Fire Protection District which was discontinued and whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of "An Act in Relation to Fire Protection Districts", who has served at least one year as a full time member of such department, shall become a member of the classified service of the fire department in the municipality in the position held by him at the time of such discontinuance, without examination and age limitation.
(Source: P.A. 77-244; 77-1438.)

65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-31

    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-31)
    Sec. 10-2.1-31. Emergency medical technician licensure. The corporate authorities of any municipality may require that all firefighters hired by the municipality on or after January 1, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 95-935) be licensed as an EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, or paramedic under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-973, eff. 8-15-14.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 3

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 3 heading)
DIVISION 3. HOURS, WAGES AND WORKING
CONDITIONS OF POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN

65 ILCS 5/10-3-1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-1)
    Sec. 10-3-1. The salary to be paid to a policeman in any municipality with 5,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 25,000 inhabitants, shall be not less than $500 per month. The salary to be paid to a policeman in any municipality with 25,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 50,000 inhabitants shall be not less than $550 per month. The salary to be paid to a policeman in any municipality with 50,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 250,000 inhabitants shall be not less than $600 per month.
    In this Section 10-3-1 "policeman" means any member of a regularly constituted police department of a municipality, sworn and commissioned to perform police duties, and includes the chief of police, assistant chief of police, chief of detectives, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, plain clothes men and patrolmen. The term "policeman" as used in this Section 10-3-1 does not include any of the following persons: Part time policemen, special policemen, auxiliary police officers, policemen serving initial probationary periods, night watchmen, temporary employees, clerks or other civilian employees of a police department, traffic guards, civilian parking meter and parking facilities personnel or so-called auxiliary police officers specially appointed to aid or direct traffic at or near schools or public functions, or to aid in civilian defense, or special policemen temporarily employed or commissioned as police officers.
(Source: P.A. 94-984, eff. 6-30-06.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-2)
    Sec. 10-3-2. The salary to be paid to a fireman in any municipality with 5,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 25,000 inhabitants, shall be not less than $500 per month. The salary to be paid to a fireman in any municipality with 25,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 50,000 inhabitants, shall be not less than $550 per month. The salary to be paid to a fireman in any municipality with 50,000 or more inhabitants but with less than 250,000 inhabitants shall be not less than $600 per month.
    In this Section 10-3-2, "fireman" means any member of a regularly constituted fire department of a municipality, appointed or commissioned to perform fire fighting duties, and includes the fire chief, assistant fire chief, captain, engineer, driver, ladder man, hose man, pipe man, and any other member of a regularly constituted fire department. The term "fireman" as used in this Section 10-3-2 does not mean any cadet, special fireman temporarily employed or firemen serving initial probationary periods.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 78-402.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-3)
    Sec. 10-3-3. Subject to the exemptions enumerated in Section 10-3-4, no person employed in the fire department of any municipality having a population of over 10,000 shall be required to remain on duty in his employment for periods of time which, in the aggregate in any month, amount to more than 56 hours for each week in that month.
(Source: P.A. 77-527.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-3.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-3.1)
    Sec. 10-3-3.1. Distinct police and fire duties. A non-home rule municipality shall not assign a "fireman", as defined in Section 10-3-2, to perform police duties or a "policeman", as defined in Section 10-3-1, to perform firefighting duties or in any way combine the duties of a fireman or a policeman after his or her appointment from a police department or fire department register of eligibles. A non-home rule municipality shall not administer its fire department's or police department's regular work assignments in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section does not apply to any municipality that created a department of public safety before January 1, 1998.
(Source: P.A. 94-720, eff. 1-6-06.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-4)
    Sec. 10-3-4. The provisions of Section 10-3-3 do not apply:
        (1) To the person in command of a municipal fire
    
department;
        (2) To employees of a fire department who are
    
employed subject to call;
        (3) To the members or employees of a fire department,
    
when required to remain on duty by the marshal or chief officer or any of his aids on account of a serious emergency caused by conflagration, riot, or other causes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-5)
    Sec. 10-3-5. Any mayor, president, commissioner, alderperson, or trustee, who violates the provisions of Section 10-3-3, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-6

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-6)
    Sec. 10-3-6. In all cities and villages which have adopted "An Act to regulate the hours of labor of employees in the fire department in cities and villages," approved June 26, 1913, as therein provided for, or which adopt this section as provided for in Section 10-3-7, no employee of the fire department shall be compelled to be on duty more than 10 consecutive hours during the period between sunrise and sunset, nor more than 14 consecutive hours during the period between sunset and sunrise.
    The head or chief officer of the department shall so arrange the working hours of the employees of the department that each employee shall work, as near as may be, an equal number of hours per month. However, the head or chief officer of the department, his aids or assistants, in their discretion, in cases of great emergency or necessity, may require the employees to continue at their work or duties until, in the judgment of the head or chief of the department, his aids or assistants, the work or services of the employees is no longer required.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-7

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-7)
    Sec. 10-3-7. The electors of any city or village may adopt the provisions of Section 10-3-6 in the following manner: Whenever the electors in any city or village equal in number to 5% of the number of legal votes cast at the last preceding general municipal election petition the city or village clerk for the submission of the proposition as to whether that city or village shall adopt the provisions of Section 10-3-6 of the Illinois Municipal Code, that clerk shall certify the proposition for submission at the next succeeding general municipal election, and if the proposition is not adopted at that election it may be submitted in like manner at any general municipal election thereafter.
    The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall the provisions of Section
10-3-6 of the Illinois Municipal Code,        YES
providing for the regulation of           --------------------
working hours of employees in the             NO
fire department, be adopted?
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    If a majority of the electors in the municipality voting thereon vote for the adoption of Section 10-3-6, it is adopted by and shall be in force in that municipality.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-8

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-8)
    Sec. 10-3-8. Whenever a dispute exists concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of employment of members of the fire department of any municipality with a population of 5,000 or more, a firemen's arbitration board shall be appointed as provided in Section 10-3-9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-9

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-9)
    Sec. 10-3-9. The firemen's arbitration board shall consist of 5 members, 4 of whom shall be appointed by the corporate authorities. In making 2 of such appointments the corporate authorities shall give due consideration to the recommendations of members of the fire department. The 4 members appointed by the corporate authorities shall select a fifth member of the board. The firemen's arbitration board shall meet and organize as soon as possible after its appointment. Such board shall select from its membership a chairman and such other officers as it deems necessary.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-10

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-10)
    Sec. 10-3-10. The firemen's arbitration board shall conduct hearings with dispatch for the purpose of hearing evidence relevant to the subject of the dispute and shall, as soon as practicable, report its findings and recommendations to the corporate authorities and to any organization of the firemen of the municipality. Such board's recommendation shall be advisory only and shall not be binding upon the municipality or upon the members of the fire department.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-11

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-11)
    Sec. 10-3-11. Members of the firemen's arbitration board shall serve without compensation, but the expenses of any hearings conducted by such board shall be borne by the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-12

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-3-12)
    Sec. 10-3-12. (a) A fireman who is an elected state officer of a statewide labor organization that is a representative of municipal firemen in Illinois shall be granted leave by the municipality, without loss of pay or benefits and without being required to make up for lost time, for work hours devoted to performing the fireman's responsibilities as an elected state officer of the statewide labor organization; provided that the elected officer has arranged for a fireman from the same municipality who is qualified to perform the absent fireman's duties to work for those hours. This Section shall not apply to any municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more.
    (b) The statewide labor organization shall, by May 1 of each year:
        (1) designate 4 elected state officers, whose right
    
to leave while carrying out their duties for the organization shall be limited to 20 shifts per officer per year (for years beginning May 1 and ending April 30); and
        (2) notify each municipality that is the employer of
    
an elected state officer to whom this Section applies, identifying the elected state officer, and indicating whether the officer is one of those limited to 20 shifts per year.
    (c) The regulation of leave for a fireman who is employed by a municipality with a population of less than 1,000,000 and who is an elected state officer of a statewide labor organization in Illinois, while he is performing the duties of that office, is an exclusive power and function of the State. Pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, a home rule municipality with a population of less than 1,000,000 may not regulate the leave of a fireman for work hours devoted to the fireman's responsibilities as an elected state officer of a statewide labor organization. This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule powers.
    (d) For the purposes of this Section:
    "Statewide labor organization" means an organization representing firefighters employed by at least 85 municipalities in this State, that is affiliated with the Illinois State Federation of Labor.
    "Elected state officer" means a full-time firefighter who is one of the 9 top elected officers of the statewide labor organization.
(Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

65 ILCS 5/10-3-13

    (65 ILCS 5/10-3-13)
    Sec. 10-3-13. Recall of police officers; limit. A police officer who is retired for disability and is 60 years old or older may not be recalled to service in any capacity.
(Source: P.A. 103-33, eff. 6-9-23.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 4

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 4 heading)
DIVISION 4. GENERAL CORPORATE POWERS
RESPECTING EMPLOYMENT

65 ILCS 5/10-4-1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-1)
    Sec. 10-4-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality may provide by ordinance in regard to the relation between all municipal officers and employees in respect to each other, the municipality, and the people.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-2)
    Sec. 10-4-2. Group insurance.
    (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may arrange to provide, for the benefit of employees of the municipality, group life, health, accident, hospital, and medical insurance, or any one or any combination of those types of insurance, and may arrange to provide that insurance for the benefit of the spouses or dependents of those employees. The insurance may include provision for employees or other insured persons who rely on treatment by prayer or spiritual means alone for healing in accordance with the tenets and practice of a well recognized religious denomination. The corporate authorities may provide for payment by the municipality of a portion of the premium or charge for the insurance with the employee paying the balance of the premium or charge. If the corporate authorities undertake a plan under which the municipality pays a portion of the premium or charge, the corporate authorities shall provide for withholding and deducting from the compensation of those municipal employees who consent to join the plan the balance of the premium or charge for the insurance.
    (b) If the corporate authorities do not provide for a plan under which the municipality pays a portion of the premium or charge for a group insurance plan, the corporate authorities may provide for withholding and deducting from the compensation of those employees who consent thereto the premium or charge for any group life, health, accident, hospital, and medical insurance.
    (c) The corporate authorities may exercise the powers granted in this Section only if the kinds of group insurance are obtained from an insurance company authorized to do business in the State of Illinois, or are obtained through an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool as authorized under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. The corporate authorities may enact an ordinance prescribing the method of operation of the insurance program.
    (d) If a municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance coverage shall include screening by low-dose mammography for all women 35 years of age or older for the presence of occult breast cancer unless the municipality elects to provide mammograms itself under Section 10-4-2.1. The coverage shall be as follows:
        (1) A baseline mammogram for women 35 to 39 years of
    
age.
        (2) An annual mammogram for women 40 years of age or
    
older.
        (3) A mammogram at the age and intervals considered
    
medically necessary by the woman's health care provider for women under 40 years of age and having a family history of breast cancer, prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing, or other risk factors.
        (4) For a group policy of accident and health
    
insurance that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, a comprehensive ultrasound screening of an entire breast or breasts if a mammogram demonstrates heterogeneous or dense breast tissue or when medically necessary as determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches.
        (5) For a group policy of accident and health
    
insurance that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, a diagnostic mammogram when medically necessary, as determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant.
    A policy subject to this subsection shall not impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any other cost-sharing requirement on the coverage provided; except that this sentence does not apply to coverage of diagnostic mammograms to the extent such coverage would disqualify a high-deductible health plan from eligibility for a health savings account pursuant to Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 223).
    For purposes of this subsection:
    "Diagnostic mammogram" means a mammogram obtained using diagnostic mammography.
    "Diagnostic mammography" means a method of screening that is designed to evaluate an abnormality in a breast, including an abnormality seen or suspected on a screening mammogram or a subjective or objective abnormality otherwise detected in the breast.
    "Low-dose mammography" means the x-ray examination of the breast using equipment dedicated specifically for mammography, including the x-ray tube, filter, compression device, and image receptor, with an average radiation exposure delivery of less than one rad per breast for 2 views of an average size breast. The term also includes digital mammography.
    (d-5) Coverage as described by subsection (d) shall be provided at no cost to the insured and shall not be applied to an annual or lifetime maximum benefit.
    (d-10) When health care services are available through contracted providers and a person does not comply with plan provisions specific to the use of contracted providers, the requirements of subsection (d-5) are not applicable. When a person does not comply with plan provisions specific to the use of contracted providers, plan provisions specific to the use of non-contracted providers must be applied without distinction for coverage required by this Section and shall be at least as favorable as for other radiological examinations covered by the policy or contract.
    (d-15) If a municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance coverage shall include mastectomy coverage, which includes coverage for prosthetic devices or reconstructive surgery incident to the mastectomy. Coverage for breast reconstruction in connection with a mastectomy shall include:
        (1) reconstruction of the breast upon which the
    
mastectomy has been performed;
        (2) surgery and reconstruction of the other breast to
    
produce a symmetrical appearance; and
        (3) prostheses and treatment for physical
    
complications at all stages of mastectomy, including lymphedemas.
Care shall be determined in consultation with the attending physician and the patient. The offered coverage for prosthetic devices and reconstructive surgery shall be subject to the deductible and coinsurance conditions applied to the mastectomy, and all other terms and conditions applicable to other benefits. When a mastectomy is performed and there is no evidence of malignancy then the offered coverage may be limited to the provision of prosthetic devices and reconstructive surgery to within 2 years after the date of the mastectomy. As used in this Section, "mastectomy" means the removal of all or part of the breast for medically necessary reasons, as determined by a licensed physician.
    A municipality, including a home rule municipality, that is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, may not penalize or reduce or limit the reimbursement of an attending provider or provide incentives (monetary or otherwise) to an attending provider to induce the provider to provide care to an insured in a manner inconsistent with this Section.
    (d-20) The requirement that mammograms be included in health insurance coverage as provided in subsections (d) through (d-15) is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution of home rule municipality powers. A home rule municipality to which subsections (d) through (d-15) apply must comply with every provision of those subsections.
    (e) Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is unauthorized.
(Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 101-580, eff. 1-1-20.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-2.1)
    Sec. 10-4-2.1. Mammograms. A municipality, including a home rule municipality, that does not provide insurance coverage of mammograms under Section 10-4-2 shall itself provide or cause to be provided to its employees mammograms that meet the requirements set forth in that Section. The requirement that mammograms be provided by municipalities as provided in this Section is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution of home rule municipality powers. A home rule municipality to which this Section applies must comply with every provision of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 87-780.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.2)
    Sec. 10-4-2.2. Post-parturition care. If a municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the coverage shall include coverage for the post-parturition care benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and health insurance under Section 356s of the Illinois Insurance Code. The requirement that post-parturition care be covered as provided in this Section is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution. A home rule municipality to which this Section applies must comply with every provision of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 89-513, eff. 9-15-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3)
    (Text of Section from P.A. 103-84, 103-91, 103-420, 103-445, and 103-535)
    Sec. 10-4-2.3. Required health benefits. If a municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the coverage shall include coverage for the post-mastectomy care benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and health insurance under Section 356t and the coverage required under Sections 356g, 356g.5, 356g.5-1, 356q, 356u, 356w, 356x, 356z.4, 356z.4a, 356z.6, 356z.8, 356z.9, 356z.10, 356z.11, 356z.12, 356z.13, 356z.14, 356z.15, 356z.22, 356z.25, 356z.26, 356z.29, 356z.30a, 356z.32, 356z.33, 356z.36, 356z.40, 356z.41, 356z.45, 356z.46, 356z.47, 356z.48, 356z.51, 356z.53, 356z.54, 356z.56, 356z.57, 356z.59, 356z.60, and 356z.61 of the Illinois Insurance Code. The coverage shall comply with Sections 155.22a, 355b, 356z.19, and 370c of the Illinois Insurance Code. The Department of Insurance shall enforce the requirements of this Section. The requirement that health benefits be covered as provided in this is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution. A home rule municipality to which this Section applies must comply with every provision of this Section.
    Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is unauthorized.
(Source: P.A. 102-30, eff. 1-1-22; 102-103, eff. 1-1-22; 102-203, eff. 1-1-22; 102-306, eff. 1-1-22; 102-443, eff. 1-1-22; 102-642, eff. 1-1-22; 102-665, eff. 10-8-21; 102-731, eff. 1-1-23; 102-804, eff. 1-1-23; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-816, eff. 1-1-23; 102-860, eff. 1-1-23; 102-1093, eff. 1-1-23; 102-1117, eff. 1-13-23; 103-84, eff. 1-1-24; 103-91, eff. 1-1-24; 103-420, eff. 1-1-24; 103-445, eff. 1-1-24; 103-535, eff. 8-11-23.)
 
    (Text of Section from P.A. 103-551)
    Sec. 10-4-2.3. Required health benefits. If a municipality, including a home rule municipality, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the coverage shall include coverage for the post-mastectomy care benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and health insurance under Section 356t and the coverage required under Sections 356g, 356g.5, 356g.5-1, 356q, 356u, 356w, 356x, 356z.4, 356z.4a, 356z.6, 356z.8, 356z.9, 356z.10, 356z.11, 356z.12, 356z.13, 356z.14, 356z.15, 356z.22, 356z.25, 356z.26, 356z.29, 356z.30a, 356z.32, 356z.33, 356z.36, 356z.40, 356z.41, 356z.45, 356z.46, 356z.47, 356z.48, 356z.51, 356z.53, 356z.54, 356z.56, 356z.57, 356z.59, 356z.60, and 356z.62 of the Illinois Insurance Code. The coverage shall comply with Sections 155.22a, 355b, 356z.19, and 370c of the Illinois Insurance Code. The Department of Insurance shall enforce the requirements of this Section. The requirement that health benefits be covered as provided in this is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution. A home rule municipality to which this Section applies must comply with every provision of this Section.
    Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is unauthorized.
(Source: P.A. 102-30, eff. 1-1-22; 102-103, eff. 1-1-22; 102-203, eff. 1-1-22; 102-306, eff. 1-1-22; 102-443, eff. 1-1-22; 102-642, eff. 1-1-22; 102-665, eff. 10-8-21; 102-731, eff. 1-1-23; 102-804, eff. 1-1-23; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-816, eff. 1-1-23; 102-860, eff. 1-1-23; 102-1093, eff. 1-1-23; 102-1117, eff. 1-13-23; 103-551, eff. 8-11-23.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.5)
    Sec. 10-4-2.5. Woman's health care provider. The corporate authorities of all municipalities are subject to the provisions of Section 356r of the Illinois Insurance Code. The requirement under this Section that health care benefits provided by municipalities comply with Section 356r of the Illinois Insurance Code is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation of home rule municipality powers under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 89-514, eff. 7-17-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.8

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.8)
    Sec. 10-4-2.8. Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. The corporate authorities of all municipalities are subject to the provisions of the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. The requirement under this Section that health care benefits provided by municipalities comply with the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and limitation of home rule municipality powers under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 91-617, eff. 1-1-00.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-3)
    Sec. 10-4-3. The corporate authorities of any municipality may withhold and deduct from the compensation of each of its employees who consents thereto, a specified amount each pay period for the purchase of United States Savings Bonds for the benefit of such employee and in such denomination as may be stated. The account of each employee shall be kept separate. As often as the individual account of any such employee contains a credit sufficient to purchase a bond of the denomination stated, the withholding officer shall arrange for or make such purchase as directed by such employee, and shall deliver such bond to such employee.
    Whenever any employee is separated from municipal service, any sum to his credit in such withheld compensation funds shall be paid to him or to his estate on request.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-4)
    Sec. 10-4-4. In municipalities of more than 500,000, the corporate authorities may investigate the enforcement of the municipal ordinances, rules and regulations, and the action, conduct and efficiency of all officers, agents and employees of the municipality. In the conduct of such investigations the corporate authorities may hold public hearings. Each member of the corporate authorities shall have power to administer oaths, and the clerk of the municipality, by order of the corporate authorities, shall issue subpoenas to secure the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigations and to any hearing before the corporate authorities or any member thereof.
    Any circuit court of this state upon application of the corporate authorities, or any member thereof, may in its discretion compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and the giving of testimony before the corporate authorities or any member thereof, by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before the court.
(Source: P.A. 81-282.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-5)
    Sec. 10-4-5. The corporate authorities of a municipality shall not pass any ordinance requiring a municipal employee who is under the age of 56 to retire.
    No home rule unit, as defined in Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, shall have the power to change, alter or amend in any way the provisions of this Section, and it is declared to be the law in this State, pursuant to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Constitution, that the establishment of a mandatory retirement age below the age of 56 for employees of a municipality is an exercise of exclusive State power which may not be exercised concurrently by a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 82-536.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-6

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-6)
    Sec. 10-4-6. In municipalities of more than 500,000 population, applications for examination for and appointment to positions as firefighters or police shall be made available at various branches of the public library of the municipality. It is declared to be the law of this State, pursuant to paragraph (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, that this Section is a denial of the power of a home rule unit to fail to make applications available as required by this Section.
(Source: P.A. 85-1342.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-7

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-4-7)
    Sec. 10-4-7. Persons in fire service. In any municipality with a population under 10,000 that is located in a county with a population over 3,000,000 and that maintains a firefighters' pension fund under Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, persons who participate in that pension fund and who have served at any time between July 1, 1976 and July 1, 1978 in the position of protective inspection officer or administrative assistant for fire services shall, if the position included firefighting duties, be entitled to receive service credit in that pension fund for such service, notwithstanding that such persons may not have held civil service appointments as firefighters, provided that application is made to the pension fund by July 1, 1992, and the corresponding employee contributions are paid, based on the compensation received for such service and the contribution rates in effect during such service for firefighters in the pension fund, plus interest thereon at the rate of 6% per year, compounded annually, from July 1, 1988 to the date of payment.
(Source: P.A. 87-782; 87-847; 87-895.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-8

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-8)
    Sec. 10-4-8. Power to deduct wages for debts.
    (a) Upon receipt of notice from the comptroller of a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Board of Education, or a housing authority of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more that a debt is due and owing the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority by an employee of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, the municipality may withhold, from the compensation of that employee, the amount of the debt that is due and owing and pay the amount withheld to the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority; provided, however that the amount deducted from any one salary or wage payment shall not exceed 25% of the net amount of the payment.
    (b) Before the municipality deducts any amount from any salary or wage of an employee under this Section, the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority shall certify that (i) the employee has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing to dispute the debt that is due and owing the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority and (ii) the employee has received notice of a wage deduction order and has been afforded an opportunity for a hearing to object to the order.
    (c) For purposes of this Section:
        (1) "Net amount" means the part of the salary or wage
    
payment remaining after the deduction of any amounts required by law to be deducted.
        (2) "Debt due and owing" means (i) a specified sum of
    
money owed to the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority for services, work, or goods, after the period granted for payment has expired, or (ii) a specified sum of money owed to the county, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Board of Education, or the housing authority pursuant to a court order or order of an administrative hearing officer after the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, judicial review.
    (d) Nothing in this Section is intended to affect the power of a municipality to withhold the amount of any debt that is due and owing the municipality by any of its employees.
(Source: P.A. 92-109, eff. 7-20-01.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-10

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-10)
    Sec. 10-4-10. Compliance with ITAP requirements. A municipality must comply with the requirements of Section 405-335 of the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois concerning the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP). A municipality may not submit employment information for the ITAP in a manner that is inconsistent with the requirements of Section 405-335 of the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule municipalities of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 97-744, eff. 1-1-13.)

65 ILCS 5/10-4-12

    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-12)
    Sec. 10-4-12. Cessation of existing municipal fire departments. If a city or village with 500 or more residents owns, operates, or maintains any fire department or departments, that city or village may not cease the operation and maintenance of that fire department or those fire departments unless the proposed cessation is first submitted by referendum to the voters of the city or village as provided by Section 15b of the Fire Protection District Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-666, eff. 1-1-15.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 5

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 5 heading)
DIVISION 5. INSURANCE FOR VOLUNTEER
FIREMEN

65 ILCS 5/10-5-1

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-1)
    Sec. 10-5-1. Every city, village or incorporated town in this State, which adopts this Division 5, as hereinafter provided, now having or which may hereafter have a volunteer fire department or a fire department composed in part of volunteer firemen, shall procure, in the name and for the benefit of the volunteer members of such fire department, a policy or policies of insurance, conditioned as hereinafter provided.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-5-2

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-2)
    Sec. 10-5-2. Each such policy of insurance shall provide for the payment to every volunteer member of such fire department receiving any injury, which injury was sustained through accidental means and was caused by and arose out of the duties of such member as a volunteer fireman, causing a disability which prevents such member from pursuing his usual vocation, as follows:
    In such cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of less than 1,000, a weekly indemnity of not less than $20,
    In such cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of 1,000 or more, a weekly indemnity of not less than $30.
    Every such policy shall further provide:
        (a) That the weekly indemnity payable thereunder
    
shall be paid as long as such disability shall continue, not however, to exceed a period of 52 weeks.
        (b) That in the event of the death or total permanent
    
disability of such volunteer fireman, the sum of not less than $3,500 shall be paid to the estate of any such volunteer fireman or to such volunteer fireman with a total permanent disability, as the case may be.
        (c) For the payment of such medical, surgical,
    
hospital and nurse services and supplies, as may be necessary on account of such injury, the total sum thereof, however, not to exceed $750, for injuries sustained as the result of any one accident.
    This amendatory act of 1973 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)

65 ILCS 5/10-5-3

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-3)
    Sec. 10-5-3. For the purposes of this Division 5, "volunteer fireman" or "volunteer member" means a person having regular employment, at work other than that of a fireman, but who is carried on the rolls of a regularly constituted fire department either for the purpose of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims, the members of which are under the jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of city, village or incorporated town and who may receive some compensation for his services as a fireman. "Volunteer fireman" or "volunteer member" does not mean an individual who volunteers assistance and is not a regularly enrolled fireman. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any city, village or incorporated town from procuring insurance to cover persons acting as firemen who are not regularly enrolled as such.
(Source: P.A. 80-597.)

65 ILCS 5/10-5-4

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-4)
    Sec. 10-5-4. If the corporate authorities of any city, village or incorporated town, which adopts this Division 5, neglect, refuse or fail to procure the insurance policies prescribed in this Division 5, within 30 days after the adoption hereof, except as provided in Section 10-5-5, neglect, refuse or fail to keep such policies in force, then such city, village or incorporated town shall be liable in an action at law to such volunteer firemen or their estates, as the case may be, for all amounts which would have been payable under the provisions of such insurance policies had such policies been procured by such city, village or incorporated town.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-5-5

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-5)
    Sec. 10-5-5. Any city, village or incorporated town which, at the time it adopts this Division 5, is carrying insurance policies with provisions for the payment of indemnities to volunteer firemen, shall have one year from such time within which to procure insurance policies containing provisions which meet the requirements of this Division 5.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/10-5-6

    (65 ILCS 5/10-5-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-6)
    Sec. 10-5-6. Whenever the legal voters of such city, village or incorporated town equal in number to 10% of the legal votes cast at the last preceding general municipal election petition the city, village or incorporated town clerk for the submission of the proposition as to whether such city, village or incorporated town, shall adopt the provisions of this Division 5, then such clerk shall certify the proposition accordingly, for submission at an election in accordance with the general election law, and if such proposition be not adopted at such election, the same may in like manner be submitted to any general municipal election thereafter.
    The proposition shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the city (or village or
incorporated town) of.... adopt               YES
Division 5 of Article 10 of the           --------------------
Illinois Municipal Code providing for          NO
insurance coverage for volunteer firemen?
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    If a majority of the votes cast upon such proposition shall be for such proposition, then this Division 5 shall be in force in such city, village or incorporated town, as of the beginning of the third month of the next fiscal year of such city, village or incorporated town.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 6

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 6 heading)
DIVISION 6. QUAD CITIES OUTSOURCING PREVENTION TASK FORCE
(Repealed)
(Source: P.A. 101-127, eff. 7-26-19. Repealed internally, eff. 1-1-21.)