(20 ILCS 1705/16.1) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-16.1)
Sec. 16.1.
At the discretion of the Secretary, to provide
recipients under
Department jurisdiction with monetary remuneration or other incentives on a
graduated scale for work performed as part of their training for useful
employment. Such recipient-workers are exempt from the Personnel Code.
Such remuneration or incentives must be paid solely from funds received
by gift or grant from private sources or the federal government or the
Mental Health Fund or from funds received from the sale of articles from
habilitation workshops. No general revenue funds appropriated to the Department
may be used to pay such remuneration or incentives.
The category of Institutional Helpers may still be paid out of General
Revenue funds.
(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
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