Illinois § 12-21.10

§ 12-21.10.

Default and misappropriation of funds; Removal of supervisor; Conditions requiring appointment of interim supervisor. If the Supervisor of General Assistance is a defaulter and in arrears with the governmental unit, or has misused, misappropriated, or converted to his own use or the use of any other person any of the funds of the unit, or is guilty of any other misconduct in office, the governing body of the governmental unit, and in the case of a township, the board of town trustees, may remove him as Supervisor of General Assistance and appoint a suitable person to be the supervisor therein; provided, that for a township containing 4,000 inhabitants or more, upon written request of the township supervisors, the board of town trustees may appoint a Supervisor of General Assistance who is a resident of such township, and fix his compensation and term of office, which shall not exceed the term of the board. If, as provided in Section 12-21.18, the Illinois Department has ordered the withholding of State funds for failure of the governmental unit to comply with the Department's rules and regulations, the governing body of the governmental unit, and in the case of a township, the board of town trustees, upon written order of the Illinois Department shall appoint an Interim Supervisor of General Assistance, acceptable to the Illinois Department, to serve as Supervisor of General Assistance for the governmental unit until such time as the policies and procedures of the unit are determined by the Department to be in compliance with its rules. If, after a reasonable time as determined by the Illinois Department, the governmental unit or agency to which such order is directed fails to make an appointment, or appoints a person who is not acceptable to the Illinois Department, the Public Aid Committee, established under Section 11-8, of the county in which the governmental unit is located, upon written order of the Illinois Department, shall appoint an Interim Supervisor, which appointment shall be subject to the approval of the Illinois Department. The appointing authority shall fix the compensation of the Interim Supervisor of General Assistance, subject to approval of the Illinois Department, which shall be payable from the general assistance fund of the local governmental unit. An Interim Supervisor of General Assistance may be removed and another person appointed in his place in the same manner and for the same reasons as in the case of an initial appointment of an Interim Supervisor. The Illinois Department shall not order the appointment of an Interim Supervisor of General Assistance if the local governmental unit takes such action as the Department considers to have established satisfactory compliance with its rules, and a reasonable time, to be determined by the Department, shall be allowed the governmental unit to establish such compliance. If an Interim Supervisor of General Assistance has been appointed, he shall exercise all the powers of that office in respect to the administration of general assistance, and shall have the sole authority to disburse State and local funds available for this purpose. If the governmental unit thereafter takes such action to assure the Department that it will comply with the Department's rules, the service of the Interim Supervisor shall be terminated. (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)