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90_SB0544
70 ILCS 2605/4.3 from Ch. 42, par. 323.3
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act.
Provides that for all positions (now offices and places of
employment) in a sanitary district, job classifications (now
grades) shall be established. Provides that uniform pay and
titles shall be established for all positions similarly
classified (now offices and places of employment in the same
grade). Provides that the trustees shall conform title and
pay for a position held in a classification to the title and
pay of other positions in the classification no later than
the beginning of the next fiscal year (now within 30 days)
after receiving a report of a change in pay or title of an
employee. Makes other changes.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 4.3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 4.3 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/4.3) (from Ch. 42, par. 323.3)
8 Sec. 4.3 Classification of positions. The Director
9 shall, with the consent and approval of said civil service
10 board, classify within 90 days after the effective date of
11 this amendatory Act of 1997 goes into effect, all positions
12 offices and places of employment in said sanitary district
13 with reference to the duties thereof for the purpose of
14 establishing job classifications grades, and of fixing and
15 maintaining standards of examinations hereinafter provided
16 for. The positions offices and places so classified shall
17 constitute the classified civil service of such sanitary
18 district and no appointments, promotions, transfers,
19 reductions in grade or pay or removal therefrom shall be made
20 except under and according to the provisions of this Act and
21 of the rules hereinafter mentioned. As a part of such
22 classified civil service all officers and employees under
23 said Director, except special examiners, shall be included.
24 The Director shall ascertain and record the duties of each
25 position office and place in the classified civil service and
26 designate the classification grade of each position. Each
27 classification grade shall comprise positions offices and
28 places having substantially similar duties. He shall also
29 record the lines of promotion from each lower classification
30 grade to a higher classification grade wherever the
31 experience derived in the performance of the duties of such
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1 lower classification grade tends to qualify for performance
2 of duty in such higher classification grade. The director,
3 subject to the disapproval of the civil service board as
4 hereinafter provided, shall by rule prescribe standards of
5 efficiency for each classification grade and for examinations
6 of candidates for appointment thereto. Such rule or any
7 amendment thereof shall take effect 30 days after written
8 notice thereof is given to the civil service board, unless
9 within such period the board files with the Director a
10 written notice of its disapproval thereof.
11 For the purpose of establishing uniformity of pay and
12 title for all positions similarly offices and places of
13 employment classified in the same grade, it shall be the duty
14 of the Director to prescribe by rule which shall become
15 effective when approved by the trustees, the maximum and
16 minimum pay for each classification grade and the title
17 thereof and to report to the trustees annually and at such
18 other times as they may direct the name and address of each
19 officer and employee paid more or less than the pay
20 prescribed for his classification grade or designated by a
21 title other than that prescribed for his classification grade
22 by the board of trustees. It shall be the duty of the
23 trustees not later than the beginning of the next fiscal year
24 within 30 days after receiving such report to change the pay
25 or title of any position officer or employee so reported out
26 of classification grade to conform to the title and pay
27 prescribed by the Director for the classification grade in
28 which the position held by such officer or employee is
29 classified. The Director shall standardize employment in each
30 classification grade and make and keep a record of the
31 relative efficiency of each officer and employee in the
32 classified civil service. The Director shall provide by rule
33 methods for ascertaining and verifying the facts from which
34 such records of relative efficiency shall be made which shall
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1 be uniform for each classification grade in the classified
2 civil service.
3 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2477.)