(105 ILCS 5/10-22.35B)

Sec. 10-22.35B. Title to school sites and buildings.

(a) On January 1, 1994 (the effective date of Public Act 88-155): (i) the legal title to all school buildings and school sites used or occupied for school purposes by a school district located in a Class I county school unit or held for the use of any such school district by and in the name of the regional board of school trustees shall vest in the school board of the school district, and the legal title to those school buildings and school sites shall be deemed transferred by operation of law to the school board of the school district, to be used for school purposes and held, sold, leased, exchanged, or otherwise transferred in accordance with law; and (ii) the legal title to all school buildings and school sites used or occupied for school purposes by a school district that is located in a Class II county school unit and that has withdrawn from the jurisdiction and authority of the trustees of schools of a township and the township treasurer under subsection (b) of Section 5-1 of this Code or held for the use of any such school district by and in the name of the regional board of school trustees at the time that regional board of school trustees was abolished by Public Act 87-969 shall vest in the school board of the school district, and the legal title to those school buildings and school sites shall be deemed transferred by operation of law to the school district, to be used for school purposes and held, sold, leased, exchanged, or otherwise transferred in accordance with law.

(b) The school board of each school district to which subsection (a) of this Section is applicable may receive any gift, grant, donation, or legacy made for the use of any school or for any school purpose within its jurisdiction and shall succeed to any gift, grant, donation, or legacy heretofore received by the regional board of school trustees, either from the township school trustees within their jurisdiction or from any other source, for the use of any school of the district served by the school board or for any other school purpose of that school district. All conveyances of real estate made to the school board of a school district under this Section shall be made to the school board in its corporate name and to its successors in office.

(c) All school districts and high school districts may take and convey title to real estate to be improved by buildings or other structures for vocational or other educational training as provided in Section 10-23.3 of this Code.

(d) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to any common school lands or lands granted or exchanged therefor or to the manner in which such lands are managed and controlled for the use and benefit of the school township and the schools of the township by the township land commissioners, the regional board of school trustees (acting as the township land commissioners), or the trustees of schools of the township, which hold legal title to those lands; and they may continue to receive gifts, grants, donations, or legacies made for the use of the school township and for the schools of the township generally in the same manner as such gifts, grants, donations, or legacies were made prior to January 1, 1994.

(Source: P.A. 100-374, eff. 8-25-17.)