70 ILCS 1210/6

(70 ILCS 1210/6) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 84)

Sec. 6.

All applicants for offices or places in said classified civil
service shall be citizens of the United States of America and residents
of the State of Illinois and shall be subjected to examination, which
shall be public and competitive with limitations specified in the rules
of the board as to residence, age, sex, health, habits, moral character
and qualifications to perform the duties of the office or place to be
filled, which qualifications shall be prescribed in advance of such
examination. Such examinations shall be practical in their character,
and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative
capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the position
to which they seek to be appointed, and may include tests of physical
qualifications and health and, when appropriate, of manual skill. No
question in any examination shall relate to political or religious
opinions or affiliations. The superintendent of employment shall control
all examinations, and may, whenever an examination is to take place,
designate a suitable number of persons to be special examiners; and it
shall be the duty of such special examiners to conduct such examinations
as the superintendent of employment may direct, and to make return and
report thereof to him; and he may at any time substitute any other
person in the place of any one so selected; and he may himself, at any
time, act as such special examiner and without appointing other special
examiners. The board shall, with reference to maintaining eligible
registers, proceed by rule to divide the entire service into two
divisions; in one of these divisions shall be included all offices and
places of employment in the classified service whereto certification is
infrequent; in the other shall be included all other offices and places
in the classified service. Such rule shall distinctly designate in which
division each of said offices or places falls; and as to all offices and
places comprised under the first division above mentioned, examination
shall be held only when a vacancy exists, and within sixty days
thereafter, and an eligible list or register, so prepared, shall be in
force only until permanent appointment has been made from such list or
register; and as to all other offices and places said board shall, by
rule, provide for and said superintendent of employment shall hold a
sufficient number of examinations to provide a sufficient number of
eligibles on the register for each grade of position in the classified
civil service, and if any place in the classified civil service shall
become vacant, to which there is no person eligible for appointment, he
shall immediately hold an examination for such position and repeat the
same, if necessary, until a vacancy is filled in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.

Said board may, in its discretion, cancel such portion of any such
register as has been in force for more than two years, but not while any
vacancy exists for the filling of which a requisition has been made upon
the civil service board, and which can be filled from said register.
Examinations for an eligible list for each position in the classified
service above mentioned shall be held once in two years, unless in the
discretion of the board, such examinations are not necessary.

Every applicant who desires to take any civil service examination
provided for by this Act shall, at the time of making application, pay
to the Park District a fee, as hereinafter provided, to defray the
expenses of such examination. Such fees shall be deposited in the
general fund of the Park District. Fees to be paid shall be determined
from the minimum announced salary for the positions to be filled, and
shall be as follows:

    Minimum salary of less than
        $1200 annually...................................$0.50
    Minimum salary of $1200 or over and
        less than $2000 annually..........................1.00
    Minimum salary of $2,000 or over
        and less than $3,000 annually.....................2.00
    Minimum salary of $3000 or
        more annually.....................................3.00

The provisions of this section respecting examinations and payment of
examination fees shall be inapplicable to employees transferred to the
employment of a park district by virtue of "An Act in relation to an
exchange of certain functions, property and personnel among cities, and
park districts having coextensive geographic areas and populations in
excess of 500,000," enacted by the 70th General Assembly.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1096.)