Illinois Code § 2

§ 2.

In any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund System to which this Act is or shall become applicable, there is hereby created and established a Civil Service Board to consist of three persons to be selected in the manner following: The Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund, shall, within thirty days after this act becomes applicable appoint three persons from among their members, at least one of whom shall be a member of said Board of Trustees from that portion of the membership of said Board of Trustees appointed by the Commissioners of the Park District, and one of them a member of said Board of Trustees from that portion of the membership of said Board elected by the employees of the Park District, under the provisions of Section 12-156 of Article 12 of the "Illinois Pension Code" as the same may from time to time be amended, each for the term of two years from the date of his appointment and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall constitute and be known as the Civil Service Board of such Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund. The members of the Civil Service Board shall not receive any salary. Two members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. No member of the Civil Service Board shall be removed except for palpable incompetence or malfeasance in office upon written charges filed by or at the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund, and heard before the Board of Hearings herein provided for. The three judges of the Circuit Court of a county in which said Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund is situated who have longest held judicial office shall constitute the Board of Hearings for such county; provided, that whenever more than three circuit judges shall be eligible as having held judicial office for the same length of time, the choice of circuit judges shall be made from them by lot. The Board of Hearings shall hear and determine the charges and its findings shall be final, and if such charges shall be sustained the member of the Civil Service Board so charged shall be forthwith removed from office by said Board of Hearings and the said Board of Trustees shall thereupon proceed, within thirty days, to fill the vacancy created by such removal. In any proceeding provided for in this section, the Board of Hearings, and each member thereof, shall have power to administer oaths and to compel by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 138.)