AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by the Personnel Code [20 ILCS 415].
SOURCE: Filed May 29, 1975; amended at 2 Ill. Reg. 33, p. 24, effective September 1, 1978; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 1, p. 63, effective January 1, 1979; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 22, p. 78, effective June 1, 1979; emergency amendment at 3 Ill. Reg. 48, p. 188, effective January 1, 1980, for a maximum of 150 days; emergency amendment at 4 Ill. Reg. 1, p. 76, effective January 1, 1980, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 11, p. 67, effective March 1, 1980; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 15, p. 216, effective March 31, 1980; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 22, p. 227, effective June 1, 1980; amended at 5 Ill. Reg. 8029, effective August 1, 1981; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 654, effective January 5, 1983; codified at 7 Ill. Reg. 13198; amended at 8 Ill. Reg. 7788, effective May 23, 1984; emergency amendment at 9 Ill. Reg. 241, effective January 1, 1985, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 9 Ill. Reg. 7907, effective May 15, 1985; amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 13940, effective September 1, 1986; amended at 12 Ill. Reg. 5634, effective March 15, 1988; emergency amendment at 12 Ill. Reg. 16214, effective September 23, 1988, for a maximum of 150 days; emergency expired February 20, 1989; amended at 13 Ill. Reg. 3722, effective March 13, 1989; amended at 13 Ill. Reg. 10820, effective June 23, 1989; amended at 13 Ill. Reg. 12970, effective August 1, 1989; amended at 15 Ill. Reg. 17974, effective November 27, 1991; amended at 16 Ill. Reg. 8375, effective May 21, 1992; emergency amendment at 16 Ill. Reg. 11645, effective July 6, 1992, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 16 Ill. Reg. 13489, effective August 19, 1992; amended at 16 Ill. Reg. 17607, effective November 6, 1992; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 3169, effective March 1, 1993; amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 1892, effective January 25, 1994; amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 17183, effective November 21, 1994; amended at 19 Ill. Reg. 8145, effective June 7, 1995; amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 3507, effective February 13, 1996; amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 15462, effective November 24, 1997; amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 14735, effective August 3, 1998; amended at 26 Ill. Reg. 15285, effective October 15, 2002; amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 11800, effective July 14, 2005; emergency amendment at 30 Ill. Reg. 12366, effective July 1, 2006, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 30 Ill. Reg. 18270, effective November 13, 2006; amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 15069, effective October 26, 2007; emergency amendment at 32 Ill. Reg. 19935, effective December 9, 2008, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 6495, effective April 23, 2009; amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 16560, effective November 13, 2009; amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 9384, effective June 14, 2012; amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 12956, effective June 25, 2018; amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 14701, effective August 11, 2022.
SUBPART A: APPLICATION AND EXAMINATION
Section 302.10 Examinations
a) The Director shall conduct open competitive and promotional examinations to determine the relative fitness of applicants. Examinations may include an evaluation of such factors as education, experience, training, capacity, knowledge, manual dexterity, character, and physical fitness. Tests shall be job related and may be written, oral, physical demonstration of skill, an evaluation of physical or manual fitness, or an evaluation of training and experience. Examinations shall consist of one or more tests in any combination. Where minimum or maximum requirements are established for any examination they shall be specified in the examination announcement.
b) Applicants shall not be questioned with respect to non-merit matters except as is necessary to meet the requirements of law or State policy.
c) In lieu of announcing or conducting examinations, the Director may accept the results of competitive examinations conducted by any established merit system subject to the Director's determination that such examinations are comparable in difficulty and comprehensiveness to those conducted by the Department of Central Management Services for similar positions.
(Source: Amended at 2 Ill. Reg. 33, p. 24, effective September 1, 1978)
Section 302.20 Time, Place, Conduct, Cancellation, Postponement and Suspension of Examinations
Examinations shall be conducted by the Director or the Director's designee at such times and places deemed to be practical, convenient and in the best interests of the State service. The Director may upon timely notice cancel or postpone any examination when there is an insufficient number of qualified candidates. The Director may discontinue offering any examination in the State when there is a sufficient number of eligibles on the eligible list to meet the needs of the State service.