Whenever any State officer, agency, or authority, whether funded by State taxes or otherwise, employs an individual in a capacity or position of such a character as would be subject to rules or regulations of the Department of Central Management Services requiring the payment of the prevailing rate of wages to those holding such a position or serving in such a capacity if that employment were subject to the Personnel Code, the State officer, agency, or authority shall pay that individual at the prevailing rate, notwithstanding the nonapplicability of the Personnel Code.
5 ILCS 370/1