Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 10 - Employees And Employment

Division 1. Civil Service in Cities

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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....
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 10-1-29
  No person shall, in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employe in any municipality which...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 10-1-48
  This division is subject to the provisions of "The Illinois Police Training Act", approved August 18, 1965, as amended and the provisions of the...

Division 2.1. Board of Fire and Police Commissioners

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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"...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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 Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 3. Hours, Wages and Working Conditions of Policemen and Firemen

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 10-3-5
  Any mayor, president, commissioner, alderman, or trustee, who violates the provisions of Section 10-3-3, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2500.)
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Division 4. General Corporate Powers Respecting Employment

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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....
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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,...

Division 5. Insurance for Volunteer Firemen

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 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...

Last modified: February 18, 2015