(55 ILCS 5/3-14023) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14023)
Sec. 3-14023.
Removals from classified service.
No officer
or employee in the classified service of the county, who shall have been
appointed under said rules and after said examination, shall be removed or
discharged or suspended for a period of more than 30 days, except for
cause, upon written charges to be filed in the office of the Civil Service
Commission by the executive head of the department, institution, or office
in which such officer or employee is then employed,
or by the appointing officer, and after an opportunity to be heard in his
own defense. Such charges shall be investigated or heard by or before the
Civil Service Commission, or by or before some officer or board appointed
by the Commission to conduct such investigation or hearing. The Commission,
after receipt of such charges, shall set a date for a hearing on or
investigation of such charges, which date shall be within 30 days from the
date of the suspension of such officer or employee on such charges pending
such investigation or hearing. The hearing shall be public, and the officer
or employee shall be entitled to call witnesses in his own defense and to
have the aid of counsel. The finding and decision of such Commission or
officer or board appointed by it to conduct such investigation when
approved by said Commission shall be certified to the appointing officer,
and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. In making its finding and
decision, or in approving the finding and decision of some officer or board
appointed by it to conduct such investigation or hearing, the Civil Service
Commission may, for disciplinary purposes, suspend an officer or employee
for a period of time not to exceed 90 days, and in no event to exceed a
period of 120 days from the date of any suspension of said officer or
employee, pending investigation of such charges.
Nothing in this Division shall limit the authority of the
appointing officer or the executive head of any department, institution or
office to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period not exceeding 30
days. Any officer or employee serving his or her probationary period fixed
by the Commission may be discharged by the appointing officers or the
executive head of the department, institution, or office in which such
officer or employee is then employed, without reference to the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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