(65 ILCS 20/21-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-10)
Sec. 21-10.
Official bonds - Civil service employees not to be removed.
The city council shall have the power to fix the amount and penalty of
the bonds of all city officers and of all municipal employees charged with
the custody of money or property. It shall also have the power to require
the giving of additional bonds, and to increase or decrease the amount and
penalty of the bonds of any officer, and to require the giving of a new
bond where the security of an original bond has become either insufficient
or in any way impaired, upon penalty of removal from office. The power
vested in the city council by this Section shall be so administered as to
protect the interests of the city from danger of financial loss, and shall
never be used as a means of removing any person from the civil service of
the city without a hearing before the Civil Service Commission, in
accordance with law. In any such case the city employee or official whose
office is sought to be declared vacant by reason of a failure to give a
new, additional, or increased bond, shall have the right to have a hearing
before the Civil Service Commission upon the question so involved.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
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