(110 ILCS 405/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 48.1)
    Sec. 1. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is hereby authorized to:
    A. Acquire by purchase or otherwise, construct, enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage student residence halls, apartments, staff housing facilities, health facilities, physical education buildings, union buildings, auditoriums, gymnasiums, or any other revenue producing buildings or facilities, administrative facilities for student services, educational facilities leased to the federal government, and the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, or any combination thereof of such type and character as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time find a necessity therefor exists and as may be required for the good and benefit of the University, and enlarge, improve and equip any such existing building, buildings, facility or facilities now used or acquired for such purposes and for that purpose may acquire property of any and every kind and description, whether real, personal or mixed, by gift, or otherwise.
    B. Maintain and operate any such building, buildings, facility or facilities, or any combination thereof, and to charge for the use of any such building, buildings, facility or facilities now used, or hereafter acquired and carry on such activities as are commonly conducted in such types of buildings and facilities and to devote the same to such uses as will produce, where combined with other income available therefor, a reasonable excess of income over maintenance and operation expenses.
    C. Hold in the treasury of the University of Illinois all funds derived from the operation of any such building, buildings, facility or facilities, together with other funds authorized by law to be applied to the purposes herein specified, and to apply the same toward the cost of maintenance and operation thereof, and for the retirement of any bonds issued in connection with the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement or equipment thereof.
    D. Enter into contracts touching in any manner any matter within the objects and purposes of this Act.
    E. Acquire building sites and buildings or any other revenue producing facilities by gift, purchase or otherwise, and pledge, separately or in combination, the revenues of any or all of such buildings or facilities so used or acquired for the payment of any bonds issued for such purposes as provided in this Act.
    F. Borrow money and issue and sell bonds in such amount and at such price and redeemable prior to maturity with or without premium as the Board of Trustees may determine for the purpose of acquiring, completing, enlarging, improving, constructing, or equipping such building, buildings, facility or facilities or any combination thereof, and to refund or refinance, from time to time as often as it shall be advantageous and in the public interest to do so, separately or in combination, any and all bonds issued and sold by the Board pursuant to this Act; provided that the selling price of any such bonds shall be such that the net interest cost to the University of the proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds shall not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or (ii) 8% per annum for bonds issued before January 1, 1972 and shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, for bonds issued after January 1, 1972, based upon the average maturity of such bonds and computed according to standard tables of bond values. Such bonds shall be payable only from the revenues pledged from the operation of any such building, buildings, facility or facilities or any combination thereof and, when authorized by the Board of Trustees, from University income authorized by law to be retained in the treasury of the University and applied as a supplement to said revenues. Such bonds shall be secured by a pledge of sufficient of the revenues of any such building, buildings, facility or facilities or any combination thereof so acquired, used, completed, enlarged, improved, constructed or equipped as herein provided, and if so authorized by the Board of Trustees, by University income to the extent authorized by Section 6g of "An Act in relation to State finance," approved June 10, 1919, as amended, and by Section 1.1 of this Act, as amended.
    Such bonds shall have all the qualities of securities under the Uniform Commercial Code approved July 31, 1961, as now or hereafter amended.
    Said Board of Trustees shall have power from time to time to execute and deliver trust agreements hereunder to a bank or trust company authorized by the laws of this State or the United States of America, to accept and execute trusts in this State. Such trust agreements may contain any provision for the deposit with the Trustee thereunder and the disposition of the proceeds of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act and secured thereby, and such provisions for the protection and the enforcement of the rights and remedies of said trustee and the holders of such bonds as the Board of Trustees may approve.
    The Board of Trustees shall prepare an annual capital plan which details the proposed budget year and 3 year capital needs of the University for capital expenditures to finance revenue producing facilities through the issuance of revenue bonds. This plan shall detail each project and the project cost in current dollar amounts. The plan shall contain the appropriate detail for the proposed budget year and the 3 year plan which will justify the projects ability to meet: the debt service requirements by producing sufficient revenue, life expectancy, and maintenance requirements. Such annual capital plans shall be submitted to the Board of Higher Education.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)