093_HB0308

 
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 1        AN ACT  concerning  the  Metropolitan  Water  Reclamation
 2    District.

 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 4.2 as follows:

 7        (70 ILCS 2605/4.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 323.2)
 8        Sec. 4.2. There is hereby created and established a civil
 9    service  board  to consist of 3 persons to be selected in the
10    manner following:
11        The governing authority or body of the sanitary district,
12    hereinafter called the trustees, shall on or  before  January
13    31,  1952  appoint a civil service board of 3 members, all of
14    whom shall be persons who are not trustees and not more  than
15    2  of whom shall be affiliated with the same political party.
16    Each member shall  have  been  a  qualified  elector  of  the
17    sanitary  district  for at least 5 years immediately prior to
18    his or her appointment and shall believe firmly in the  merit
19    system  of  government.   No person shall be appointed to the
20    civil service board who has held an elective public office or
21    a  position  in  a  political  party  within  the   2   years
22    immediately  prior  to  his or her appointment.  No member of
23    the board shall be a member of a committee  in  any  partisan
24    political  club  or  organization,  or  shall  hold  or  be a
25    candidate for any elective public office.
26        Of the members so appointed, one shall be appointed for a
27    term of 2 years, one for a term of 4 years and one for a term
28    of 6  years  beginning  February  1,  1952.   All  subsequent
29    appointments  shall  be for 6 year terms beginning February 1
30    of the year in which the antecedent  term  expires.   In  the
31    event  a  vacancy  occurs from any cause in the office of any
 
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 1    member, the unexpired portion of the term shall be filled  by
 2    appointment  within 60 days by the trustees.  The board shall
 3    elect  from  its  members  a  chairman,   vice-chairman   and
 4    secretary.  Each shall serve for a term of 2 years or until a
 5    successor is elected.  Each member of the board shall receive
 6    a  salary  of $20,000 $15,000 per annum, except the Chairman,
 7    who shall receive a salary of $22,500 $17,500 per annum.  Two
 8    members of the civil service board shall constitute a quorum,
 9    but in no instance shall the board have authority or exercise
10    responsibility if 60 days after a vacancy exists on the board
11    it has not been filled by appointment.
12        No member of the civil service  board  shall  be  removed
13    except  for  palpable  incompetence  or malfeasance in office
14    upon written charges filed by or  at  the  direction  of  the
15    trustees  and  heard before the trustees sitting as the board
16    of hearings herein provided for.
17        The board  of  hearings  shall  hear  and  determine  the
18    charges  and its findings shall be final.  If the charges are
19    sustained, the member of the civil service board  so  charged
20    shall  be  forthwith  removed  from  office  by  the board of
21    hearings and the trustees shall thereupon proceed  within  30
22    days  to  fill  the  vacancy created by that removal.  In all
23    proceedings provided  for  in  this  Section,  the  board  of
24    hearings   and  each  member  thereof  shall  have  power  to
25    administer oaths and to compel by subpoena the attendance and
26    testimony of  witnesses  and  the  production  of  books  and
27    papers.
28    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)