(310 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 31)

Sec. 4. Powers. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, repair or operation of housing projects located in whole or in part within the area in which it is authorized to act, any State Public Body may upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:

(a) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges therein to a housing authority or the Federal Government;

(b) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects;

(c) Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

(d) Assign or loan any of its employees to a housing authority to aid in the performance of the work of such housing authority; and provide for a housing authority any necessary office space, equipment or other facilities;

(e) Make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances; plan or replan, or zone or rezone, any part of such State Public Body pursuant to existing laws;

(f) Enter into agreements (which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary) with a housing authority or the Federal Government respecting action to be taken by such State Public Body pursuant to any of the powers granted by this Act;

(g) By agreement with any housing authority operating within its boundaries or jurisdiction, to designate and use such housing authority as an instrumentality to make investigations on behalf of such State Public Body and to perform such other functions as may be specified by such agreement; and to make appropriations to such authority;

(h) Lend money to a housing authority from time to time, which, when it has funds available for such purpose, shall make reimbursements for all loans made to it together with interest thereon;

(i) Do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, repair or operation of such housing projects;

(j) Cause services of the character which such State Public Body is otherwise empowered to furnish to be furnished to a housing authority;

(k) Enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by such State Public Body of its powers relating to the repair, elimination or closing of unsafe, insanitary or unfit dwellings;

(l) Employ (notwithstanding the provisions of any other law) any funds belonging to, or within the control of, such State Public Body, including funds derived from the sale or furnishing of property or facilities to a housing authority, in the purchase of the bonds of a housing authority;

(m) Cooperate with a housing authority in the enforcement of regulations adopted by such authority in the exercise of the jurisdiction of the authority with respect to the maintenance in a safe and sanitary condition of the dwellings and appurtenant areas located within the boundaries of any such project operated by the housing authority; and

(n) Vest any or all of the powers it may possess relating to the repair, maintenance of standards, elimination or closing of unsafe, insanitary or unfit dwellings, in a housing authority (which shall exercise such powers as an agency of such State Public Body) located in whole or in part within the area in which such State Public Body is authorized to act.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)