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90_HB2789
65 ILCS 5/10-1-14 from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-14
65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9 from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Adds a caption and
makes a technical change in Sections relating to the
appointment of firefighters and certain other municipal
employees.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
2 Sections 10-1-14 and 10-2.1-9.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
6 changing Sections 10-1-14 and 10-2.1-9 as follows:
7 (65 ILCS 5/10-1-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-14)
8 Sec. 10-1-14. Appointments; preference. The head of the
9 department or office in which a position classified under
10 this Division 1 is to be filled shall notify the commission
11 of that fact, and the commission shall certify to the
12 appointing officer the name and address of the candidate
13 standing highest upon the register for the class or grade to
14 which the position belongs. However, in cases of laborers
15 where a choice by competition is impracticable, the
16 commission may provide by its rules that the selections shall
17 be made by lot from among those candidates proved fit by
18 examination, but laborers who have previously been in the
19 service and were removed because their services were no
20 longer required, shall be preferred, and be reinstated before
21 other laborers are given positions, preference being given to
22 those who have had the longest term of service, and laborers
23 in the employ of the municipality on July 1, 1949, who, as of
24 such date, have been employed under temporary authority for 3
25 years or more or during parts of 3 or more calendar years,
26 shall be preferred also, and shall be placed upon the
27 register for such positions without examination and shall be
28 certified before other laborers are given positions,
29 preference being given to those laborers under temporary
30 authority who have had the longest term of service in such
31 positions. In making such certification, sex shall be
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1 disregarded. The appointing officer shall notify the
2 commission of each position to be filled, separately, and
3 shall fill such place by the appointment of the person
4 certified to him or her by the commission therefor. Original
5 appointment shall be on probation for a period not to exceed
6 6 months to be fixed by the rules but all time spent in
7 attending training schools and seminars, except on-the-job
8 training conducted by local Fire Department personnel, shall
9 be excluded in calculating the probation period; provided
10 that in municipalities with a population of more than 500,000
11 inhabitants, original appointment to the police department
12 shall be on probation for a period not to exceed 9 months to
13 be fixed by the rules of the department. The commission may
14 strike off names of candidates from the register after they
15 have remained thereon more than 2 years. At or before the
16 expiration of the period of probation, the head of the
17 department or office in which a candidate is employed may, by
18 and with the consent of the commission, discharge him or her
19 upon assigning in writing his or her reason therefor to the
20 commission. If he or she is not then discharged, his or her
21 appointment shall be deemed complete. To prevent the stoppage
22 of public business, or to meet extraordinary exigencies, the
23 head of any department or office may, with the approval of
24 the commission, make temporary appointment to remain in force
25 not exceeding 120 days, and only until regular appointments
26 under the provisions of this Division 1 can be made.
27 (Source: P.A. 80-1364.)
28 (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-9)
29 Sec. 10-2.1-9. Original appointments; preferences;
30 limitation.
31 (a) The board of fire and police commissioners shall
32 give preference for original appointment to persons
33 designated in Section 10-2.1-8 whose names appear on any
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1 register of eligibles resulting from an examination for
2 original entrance in the classified service of the fire and
3 police departments of any municipality coming under the
4 provisions of this Division 2.1 by adding to the final grade
5 average which they receive or will receive as the result of
6 any examination held for original entrance, 5 points. The
7 board shall also give preference to persons eligible under
8 subsection (b) as provided in that subsection. The numerical
9 result thus attained shall be applied by the board of fire
10 and police commissioners in determining the position of such
11 persons on any eligibility list which has been created as the
12 result of any examination for original entrance for purposes
13 of preference in certification and appointment from such
14 eligibility list. The board shall strike off the names of
15 candidates for original appointment after such names have
16 been on the list for more than 2 years.
17 (b) All persons who, on or after August 20, the
18 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993, have been
19 paid-on-call certified firefighters II, paramedics, or any
20 combination of those capacities, of the municipality shall be
21 awarded 0.5 point for each year of successful service in one
22 or more of those capacities, up to a maximum of 5 points at
23 the time of examination for original appointment to the
24 classified service of the fire department. Certified
25 firefighters III shall be awarded one point per year up to a
26 maximum of 5 points. Applicants from outside the
27 municipality who were employed as full-time firefighters or
28 firefighter-paramedics by a fire protection district or
29 another municipality for at least 2 years shall have the same
30 preference as paid-on-call personnel. These additional
31 points presuppose a rating scale totalling 100 points
32 available for the eligibility list. If more or fewer points
33 are used in the rating scale for the eligibility list, the
34 points awarded under this subsection shall be increased or
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1 decreased by a factor equal to the total possible points
2 available for the examination divided by 100.
3 No person entitled to additional points under this
4 subsection shall be required to claim that preference or
5 credit before an examination is held. The preference shall
6 be given after the posting or publication of the eligibility
7 list. To qualify for the preference, applicants who are
8 eligible for credit under this subsection shall make a claim
9 for that credit, in writing, within 10 days after the posting
10 of the eligibility list, or the claim shall be deemed waived.
11 Upon request by the board of fire and police commissioners,
12 the governing body of the municipality or (in the case of
13 applicants from outside the municipality) the governing body
14 of any fire protection district or any other municipality
15 shall certify to the board of fire and police commissioners,
16 within 10 days of the request, the number of years of
17 successful paid-on-call service of any person. A candidate
18 may not receive preference points under this subsection if
19 the amount of points awarded would place the candidate before
20 a veteran on the eligibility list.
21 (Source: P.A. 88-440.)