(70 ILCS 1215/7) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 120)
Sec. 7.
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 for at least one year prior to the beginning
date of an examination for an office or place in said classified service
and shall be subjected to examination, which shall be public and
competitive, with limitations specified in the rules of the Board as to
the residence, age, 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 the call
for said 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 Civil Service Board 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
examination as the Civil Service Board may direct, and to make return
and report thereof to said Board; and said Board may at any time
substitute any other person in the place of any one so selected; and
said Board may itself, at any time, act as such special examiner and
without appointing other special examiners. Examinations shall be held
only when a vacancy exists, and within a reasonable time thereafter.
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 Fund System a fee, as hereinafter provided, to defray the
expenses of such examination. Such fees shall be deposited in the
general fund of the Fund System. 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 $2000 or over and less than $3000 annually..........................................................2.00
Minimum salary of $3000 or more annually..................3.00
(Source: P.A. 81-257.)
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