Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 475]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 28

Board shall make and publish rules, which it may change from time to time, to carry out the purpose of this section, and for examination, appointments, transfers, and removals and for maintaining adequate records as herein required. Such rules shall be distributed by t h e ' Board and it shall give notice of the places where such rules may be obtained by publication in one or more daily newspapers published in each of the seven largest cities in the state according to the last general census published by the United States. Copies of all said rules and all changes therein certified by the Board shall be sent to the county clerk of each county in the State where they shall be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours. All applicants for the classified service under the provisions of this section, except as provided in Section 37, shall be subjected to examination which shall be fair and competitive, open to all citizens resident in the State of Illinois who can qualify for this classified service, under the rules of the Board concerning residence, age, sex, health, personal habits and appearance, moral character, training, education and qualifications to perform the duties of the positions to be filled. In examinations for technical positions residence may be waived. Such examinations shall be practical, relate to the classification for which the examination is given, and shall fairly test the relative capacities of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the positions to which they seek appointment. No question in any examination shall relate to political or religious affiliations or racial origins of the examinee. T h e Board shall conduct such examinations and control the same, and may delegate the duty of preparing questions and grading answers to duly qualified and disinterested members of its faculty or staff for which work no additional compensation shall be paid. Notice of the time and place of such examinations, with a statement of the scope thereof, shall be published at least two weeks before such examination in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation published in each one of the seven largest cities of the State according to the last general census published by the United States. Written or printed notice of every examination shall also be sent to the county clerk of every county in the State, who shall post the same promptly in a conspicuous place in the courthouse of each county. F r o m the results of such examinations, the Board shall prepare and keep a register for each class or grade of positions in the classified civil service under the provisions of this section, of those persons who have become eligible through such examinations for such positions, and such persons shall take rank upon said register in the order of their relative excellence as determined by said examinations, without reference to priority of time of examination. T h e Board shall, by its rules, provide for promotions, whether to fill vacancies or otherwise, solely on the basis of ascertained merit. T o that end it shall fix lines of promotion wherever practicable. Whenever a position in the classified civil service under the provisions of this section is to be filled, except as provided in Section 37, the Board shall certify to the appointing officer the names and addresses of the three persons standing highest upon the register for the class or grade to which said position belongs. Sex shall be disregarded except when the nature of the position requires otherwise. Appointments shall be on probation for a period of not more than six months, to be fixed by said rules, and persons so appointed may be discharged at any time during the period of probation, if, in the opinion of the Board, they have not shown sufficient aptitude to continue. W h e n there is no eligible list the Board may make temporary appointments to remain in force only until regular appointments under the provisions of this section can be made. Examination for such appointments must be given as soon as practicable after appointment and an eligible list established within a reasonable time thereafter. F o r positions which are temporary or of an emergency nature the Board may make temporary appointments for a period not exceeding thirty days. In all removal proceedings any member of the Board and its Secretary may administer oaths. W h e n it is necessary to reduce the number of employees,