AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by Section 10 of the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code [15 ILCS 310].

SOURCE: Emergency rule adopted December 29, 1977; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 49, p. 159, effective October 1, 1979; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 40, p. 219, effective December 1, 1980; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 3302, effective March 16, 1982; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 7494, effective June 16, 1982; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 11526, effective September 7, 1983; codified at 8 Ill. Reg. 2653; recodified at 10 Ill. Reg. 15659; amended at 12 Ill. Reg. 6766, effective April 1, 1988; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 1652, effective February 1, 1993; emergency amendment at 21 Ill. Reg. 1710, effective January 27, 1997, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 5937, effective April 24, 1997; emergency amendment at 27 Ill. Reg. 18259, effective November 17, 2003, for a maximum of 150 days; emergency expired April 14, 2004; amended at 28 Ill. Reg. 7676, effective May 24, 2004; emergency amendment at 32 Ill. Reg. 3013, effective February 13, 2008, for a maximum of 150 days; emergency amendment repealed at 32 Ill. Reg. 6659, effective April 2, 2008; amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 15017, effective September 8, 2008; amended at 35 Ill. Reg. 4278, effective March 1, 2011; amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 12125, effective July 16, 2012; amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 13945, effective September 1, 2012; amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 4282, effective April 1, 2013; amended at 39 Ill. Reg. 14182, effective October 19, 2015; amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 19704, effective November 23, 2022.