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55 ILCS 5/3-8002 (2026)

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(55 ILCS 5/3-8002) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-8002)
    Sec. 3-8002. Applicability and adoption. The county board of every county having a county police department merit board established under the County Police Department Act (repealed) or a merit commission for sheriff's personnel established under Section 58.1 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, as amended (repealed), shall adopt and implement the merit system provided by this Division and shall modify the merit system now in effect in that county as may be necessary to comply with this Division.
    The county board of any county having a population of at least 75,000 which does not have a merit board or merit commission for sheriff's personnel shall adopt and implement by ordinance the merit system provided by this Division. For counties with a population of less than 75,000, if the county board does not adopt such a merit system by an ordinance and if a petition signed by not fewer than 5% or 1000, whichever is less, of the registered electors of any such county is filed with the county clerk requesting a referendum on the adoption of a merit system for deputies in the office of the Sheriff, the county board shall, by appropriate ordinance, cause the question to be submitted to the electors of the county, at a special or general election specified in such ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Section 28-3 of the Election Code. Notice of the election shall be given as provided in Article 12 of that Code. If a majority of those voting on the proposition at such election vote in favor thereof, the county board shall adopt and implement a merit system provided in this Division. When a merit board or merit commission for sheriff's personnel has been established in a county, it may be abolished by the same procedure in which it was established.
    This Division does not apply to any county having a population of more than 1,000,000.
(Source: P.A. 103-605, eff. 7-1-24; 104-158, eff. 1-1-26.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1999–2019 · leading case: Carver v. Nall, 714 N.E.2d 486 (Ill. 1999).
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Carver v. Nall, 714 N.E.2d 486 (Ill. 1999). “The Procedure Act applies to every "agency," as defined therein (5 ILCS 100/1-5 (West 1996)), and defines "agency" as, inter alia, "each administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government that is created by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local…”
Nall v. Intern. Ass'n of Mach. & Aero., 719 N.E.2d 300 (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 3× “However, Sheriff Nall refused to bargain over this issue because section 3-8002 (55 ILCS 5/3-8002 (West 1996)) of the Sheriff's Merit System Law (Merit Law) (55 ILCS 5/3-8001 through 3-8018 (West 1996)), a division of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/1-1001 et seq.”
Grant v. Dimas, 2019 IL App (1st) 180799 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “During the parties’ negotiation for a CBA, the union sought to include provisions allowing for arbitration over disciplinary and promotional issues, but the sheriff refused to bargain on these issues based on section 3-8002 of the Sheriff’s Merit System Law (Merit Law) (55 ILCS…”
Adams Cnty. Sheriff Nall v. Int'l Ass'n of Machinists (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 3× “However, Sheriff Nall re­fused to bar­gain over this issue be­cause section 3-8002 (55 ILCS 5/3-8002 (West 1996)) of the Sheriff's Merit Sys­tem Law (Mer­it Law) (55 ILCS 5/3-8001 through 3-8018 (West 1996)), a division of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/1-1001 et seq .”
Illinois Nurses Ass'n v. Bd. of Trs. of the Univ. of Illinois Modified upon Denial of Rehearing Original opinion filed Nov. 22, 2000 (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “In Nall , the court held that section 3-8002 of the Sheriff's Merit System Law (55 ILCS 5/3-8002(West 1996)) prohibited parties from collectively bargaining over disciplinary and promotion decisions.”
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