093_HB2381
LRB093 08562 MKM 08788 b
1 AN ACT concerning employment.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Section 3-7009 and adding Section 4-2003.5 as follows:
6 (55 ILCS 5/3-7009) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-7009)
7 Sec. 3-7009. Promotions. Promotion of deputy sheriffs in
8 the County Police Department, full-time deputy sheriffs not
9 employed as county police officers or county corrections
10 officers, and of employees in the County Department of
11 Corrections shall be made by the sheriff from those
12 candidates who have been certified to him as being qualified
13 for promotion. Certification for promotion in one department
14 shall not constitute certification for promotion in another
15 department. The Board shall make certifications for
16 promotions on the basis of ascertained merit, experience and
17 physical, mental and other tests and examinations. Promotion
18 shall not be based on the number of arrests made by the
19 person to be promoted. Those promoted shall serve a
20 probationary period of 12 months and during that period may
21 be reduced to their former rank at the will of the Board.
22 Employees of the house of correction whose names, at the time
23 of the transfer of the house of correction to the County
24 Department of Corrections, appear on a civil service
25 promotional register, shall retain the same status insofar as
26 their eligibility to comparable positions in the employ of
27 the County Department of Corrections is concerned.
28 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
29 (55 ILCS 5/4-2003.5 new)
30 Sec. 4-2003.5. Promotion of State's Attorneys. No
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1 State's Attorney may be promoted on the basis of the number
2 of convictions obtained by the person to be promoted.
3 Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
4 changing Section 10-2.1-15 as follows:
5 (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-15)
6 Sec. 10-2.1-15. The board, by its rules, shall provide
7 for promotion in the fire and police departments on the basis
8 of ascertained merit and seniority in service and
9 examination, and shall provide in all cases, where it is
10 practicable, that vacancies shall be filled by promotion. All
11 examinations for promotion shall be competitive among such
12 members of the next lower rank as desire to submit themselves
13 to examination. All promotions shall be made from the 3
14 having the highest rating, and where there are less than 3
15 names on the promotional eligible register, as originally
16 posted, or remaining thereon after appointments have been
17 made therefrom, appointments to fill existing vacancies shall
18 be made from those names or name remaining on the promotional
19 register except that promotions made in any municipality with
20 more than 130,000 but less than 2,000,000 population may be
21 made from the 7 members having the highest rating. No
22 promotion in the police department shall be made on the basis
23 of the number of arrests made by the person to be promoted.
24 The method of examination and the rules governing
25 examinations for promotion shall be the same as provided for
26 applicants for original appointment, except that original
27 appointments only shall be on probation, as provided by the
28 rules. The board shall strike off the names of candidates for
29 promotional appointment after they have remained thereon for
30 more than 3 years, provided there is no vacancy existing
31 which can be filled from the promotional register.
32 (Source: P.A. 83-761.)