There is hereby established a Board of Fire and Police Commissioners ("BFPC") consisting of five members.
No appointments to the BFPC shall be made by the Village President within 30 days before the expiration of the Village President's term of office.
(A) 
No person shall be qualified to continue to hold office who does not maintain residency in the Village.
(B) 
No person holding an office under the Village shall be a member of the BFPC or the secretary thereof. The acceptance of any such office by a member of the BFPC shall be treated as a resignation of his or her office as a member of the BFPC or the secretary thereof.
(C) 
No person shall be appointed a member of the BFPC who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of this state or comparable laws of any other state or the United States.
(D) 
No person shall be appointed a member of the BFPC who is related, either by blood or marriage up to the degree of first cousin, to any elected official of the Village.
Members shall not be subject to removal, except for cause, upon written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard within 30 days in his or her or their own defense, before a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees. A majority vote of the elected members of the Board of Trustees shall be required to remove any such member from office.
The BFPC may employ a secretary or may designate one of its own members to act as such. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the BFPC's proceedings, shall be custodian of all records pertaining to the business of the BFPC, shall keep a record of all examinations held, and shall perform such other duties as the BFPC shall prescribe.
The BFPC shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) 
To make such rules for the appointment and removal of members of the Police Department, which rules shall apply only to the conduct of examinations for original appointments, for promotions, and to the conduct of hearings on charges brought against a member of the Police Department. The rules shall provide that appointments and promotions shall be made after an examination as provided by state statute, except as modified by the ordinances of the Village enacted from time to time. All rules and regulations and any changes therein shall be printed immediately for distribution, and notice shall be given of where the printed rules and regulations may be obtained, and of the date, not less than 10 days subsequent to the time of printing, when the rules and regulations or changes therein shall go into effect. Such notice shall be published in one or more newspapers published in the Village or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the Village.
(B) 
To appoint all members of the Village Police Department, except the Chief of Police, and any exempt positions as authorized by ordinance enacted from time to time, provided that all appointments to the Village Police Department, other than that of the lowest rank, shall be from the rank next below that to which the appointment shall be made.
(C) 
To perform such other duties and exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by the Board of Trustees and the applicable provisions set forth in Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-1 et seq.; provided, however, that in the event there is a conflict between the provisions of Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code and the provisions of this Article 2, the provisions of this Article 2 shall prevail.