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Illinois
Police Association ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP...
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ACTIVE MEMBERS – Active
members shall be limited to law enforcement officers as
defined hereinafter, coroners and duly authorized
prosecutors and their assistants during their term of
office. For all purposes herein, “Law Enforcement
Officer” means any person who is hired and employed
specifically as a law enforcement officer by a law |
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enforcement agency authorized by state or federal statue
to enforce the law, other than those in a judicial
capacity. Such officers must be employed on a full time
or part-time basis, and otherwise come under the
provisions of the Minimum Wage Act (820 ILCS 105/1 et
seq), when said act applies. Such officers must be
employed on a full time or part-time basis, and
otherwise come under the provisions of the Minimum Wage
Act (820 ILCS 105/1 et seq), when said act applies.
Employees of agencies not covered by the Minimum Wage
Act must be compensated at an hourly rate reasonably
consistent and not lower than 75 percent of the
established minimum wage. The term “Law Enforcement
Officer” includes but is not limited to, law enforcement
officers, correctional officers, sheriffs, full time
railroad law enforcement officers, adult State and
Federal parole officers, other public law enforcement
officers employed by any municipality, county or other
political subdivision of or within the territorial
limits of Illinois, including law enforcement officers
employed by the United States whose tour of duty or
office from where he or she reports is located within
Illinois and officers who have been pensioned from law
enforcement employment or who are retired and eligible
for pension after serving twenty years as a law
enforcement officer but who have not yet attained age
fifty. Persons employed by a law enforcement department
because of their specialized training or profession
shall not be considered a law enforcement officer unless
they are originally employed as such and are compensated
at the same salary as those of corresponding rank on the
same department. |
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(Amended 2003)
SECTION 2 – PARAGRAPH A – ELIGIBILITY OF ACTIVE MEMBERS.
Eligibility for Active Membership shall not be altered
if a law enforcement officer is assigned to clerical,
radio, telephone switchboard, dog pond or ambulance
service unless the principle reason for their employment
is to perform such non law enforcement service and
unless such employee is compensated at a salary lower
than that received by a patrolman of the same
department.
(Amended September, 1975) |
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SECTION 6 –
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. An Active member who shall
submit the name and the candidates written request for
membership on forms provided by the Association must
propose a candidate for Active membership. The Executive
Director may approve the application if satisfied that
the applicant has truthfully and fully answered all
questions contained in the application, and is entitled
to Active membership. In cases where the Executive
Director is doubtful of the candidates eligibility, the
application shall be referred to the Board for its
decision thereon, which shall be final. Application for
membership may not be accepted unless the law
enforcement qualifications of the applicants employer
are clearly defined by state or federal status. The
Board may deny the applicant for membership where its
acceptance may result in risks or losses being
unnecessarily increase or which it is believed would
prove detrimental to the operations of the Association.
(Amended September, 2000)SECTION 9 – DISCIPLINE,
SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION. A member may be disciplined,
suspended or expelled for a misrepresentation of facts
in his or her application for membership, for
unprofessional conduct or other just cause, but such
punishment shall not be inflicted except upon written
charges being filed against him or her and until he or
she has had an opportunity to be heard in his or her own
defense before the Board. The member shall be entitled
to counsel at said hearing.
(Amended September, 2006)
SECTION 10 – PROHIBITIONS. No person who has been
convicted of a felony against the laws of any state or
the federal government shall be eligible for membership
and any member who is convicted of a felony against the
laws of any state or federal government shall be
automatically dropped from the membership from the date
his or her conviction becomes final.
(Amended September, 2006)
SECTION 11 – NON-DISCRIMINATION. Sex, color, race or
creed shall not be a bar to membership in the
Association
(Amended September, 2006) |
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