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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1923
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1923 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7 as follows:
6 (110 ILCS 305/7) (from Ch. 144, par. 28)
7 Sec. 7. Powers of trustees.
8 (a) The trustees shall have power to provide for the
9 requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the
10 rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and
11 instructors, and to establish and provide for the management
12 of such model farms, model art, and other departments and
13 professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most
14 thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to
15 agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics,
16 without excluding other scientific and classical studies. The
17 trustees shall, upon the written request of an employee
18 withhold from the compensation of that employee any dues,
19 payments or contributions payable by the such employee to any
20 labor organization as defined in the Illinois Educational
21 Labor Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall
22 be withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal
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1 to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
2 contributions, and the trustees shall transmit such
3 withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10
4 working days from the time of the withholding. They may
5 accept the endowments and voluntary professorships or
6 departments in the University, from any person or persons or
7 corporations who may offer the same, and, at any regular
8 meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in
9 relation to such endowments and declare on what general
10 principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such special
11 voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be
12 incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of
13 congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall at
14 any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in
15 idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation:
16 And provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of
17 any of the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
18 liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
19 of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating
20 such liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially
21 and properly applied to the payment of the same. Any lease to
22 the trustees of lands, buildings or facilities which will
23 support scientific research and development in such areas as
24 high technology, super computing, microelectronics,
25 biotechnology, robotics, physics and engineering shall be for
26 a term not to exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees
27 the option to purchase the lands, buildings or facilities.
28 The lease shall recite that it is subject to termination and
29 cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly fails
30 to make an appropriation to pay the rent payable under the
31 terms of the lease.
32 Leases for the purposes described herein exceeding 5
33 years shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
34 Education.
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1 The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation
2 with other institutions of higher education, acquire by
3 purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge,
4 improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage medical
5 research and high technology parks, together with the
6 necessary lands, buildings, facilities, equipment and
7 personal property therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a)
8 the location and development of business and industry in the
9 State of Illinois, and (b) the increased application and
10 development of technology and (c) the improvement and
11 development of the State's economy. The Board of Trustees may
12 lease to nonprofit corporations all or any part of the land,
13 buildings, facilities, equipment or other property included
14 in a medical research and high technology park upon such
15 terms and conditions as the University of Illinois may deem
16 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
17 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for
18 the construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
19 management of any such park; and may lease to any person,
20 firm, partnership or corporation, either public or private,
21 any part or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment
22 or other property of such park for such purposes and upon
23 such rentals, terms and conditions as the University may deem
24 advisable; and may finance all or part of the cost of any
25 such park, including the purchase, lease, construction,
26 reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, addition to, and
27 extension and maintenance of all or part of such high
28 technology park, and all equipment and furnishings, by
29 legislative appropriations, government grants, contracts,
30 private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such
31 high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may
32 make its other facilities and services available to tenants
33 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
34 reasonable and appropriate.
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1 The Trustees shall have power (a) to purchase real
2 property and easements, and (b) to acquire real property and
3 easements in the manner provided by law for the exercise of
4 the right of eminent domain, and in the event negotiations
5 for the acquisition of real property or easements for making
6 any improvement which the Trustees are authorized to make
7 shall have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
8 resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the
9 execution of the project and therein made a finding that it
10 is necessary to take such property or easements immediately
11 or at some specified later date in order to comply with the
12 schedule, the Trustees may acquire such property or easements
13 in the same manner provided in Sections 7-103 through 7-112
14 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
15 The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
16 the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
17 the Board are located to pay for services rendered by the
18 various taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and
19 to pay annually for services rendered thereafter by such
20 district such sums as may be determined by the Board upon
21 properties used solely for income producing purposes, title
22 to which is held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties
23 leased to members of the staff of the University of Illinois,
24 title to which is held in trust for said Board of Trustees
25 and upon properties leased to for-profit entities the title
26 to which properties is held by the Board of Trustees. A
27 certified copy of any such agreement made with the State's
28 Attorney shall be filed with the County Clerk and such sums
29 shall be distributed to the respective taxing districts by
30 the County Collector in such proportions that each taxing
31 district will receive therefrom such proportion as the tax
32 rate of such taxing district bears to the total tax rate that
33 would be levied against such properties if they were not
34 exempt from taxation under the Property Tax Code.
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1 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois,
2 subject to the applicable civil service law, may appoint
3 persons to be members of the University of Illinois Police
4 Department. Members of the Police Department shall be peace
5 officers and as such have all powers possessed by policemen
6 in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests
7 on view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city
8 or county ordinances, except that they may exercise such
9 powers only in counties wherein the University and any of its
10 branches or properties are located when such is required for
11 the protection of university properties and interests, and
12 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
13 counties, when requested by appropriate state or local law
14 enforcement officials; provided, however, that such officer
15 shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
16 The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by or
17 through the College of Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
18 community network established under subsection (r) of Section
19 5-16.3 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
20 The powers of the trustees as herein designated are
21 subject to the provisions of "An Act creating a Board of
22 Higher Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
23 appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named",
24 approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
25 The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to adopt
26 all administrative rules which may be necessary for the
27 effective administration, enforcement and regulation of all
28 matters for which the Board has jurisdiction or
29 responsibility.
30 (b) To assist in the provision of buildings and
31 facilities beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of
32 University purposes, the Board of Trustees of the University
33 of Illinois may exercise the following powers with regard to
34 the area located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois
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1 at Chicago campus and bounded as follows: on the West by
2 Morgan Street; on the North by Roosevelt Road; on the East by
3 Union Street; and on the South by 16th Street, in the City of
4 Chicago:
5 (1) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
6 facilities by purchase, including installments payable
7 over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of
8 such duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine,
9 or by exercise of the power of eminent domain;
10 (2) Sub-lease or contract to purchase through
11 installments all or any portion of buildings or
12 facilities for such duration and on such terms as the
13 Board of Trustees shall determine, including a term that
14 exceeds 5 years, provided that each such lease or
15 purchase contract shall be and shall recite that it is
16 subject to termination and cancellation in any year for
17 which the General Assembly fails to make an appropriation
18 to pay the rent or purchase installments payable under
19 the terms of such lease or purchase contract; and
20 (3) Sell property without compliance with the State
21 Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the
22 University Treasury in a special, separate development
23 fund account which the Auditor General shall examine to
24 assure compliance with this Act.
25 Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall
26 be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
27 Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by
28 the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of
29 the University, including, by way of example, residential
30 facilities for University staff and students and commercial
31 facilities which provide services needed by the University
32 community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
33 withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
34 the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
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1 property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
2 work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
3 sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
4 lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
5 services associated with the planning and development of the
6 area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
7 other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from
8 the General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to
9 an entity or person other than the University shall not be
10 subject to any limitations applicable to a State supported
11 college or university under any law. All development on the
12 land and all use of any buildings or facilities shall be
13 subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
14 (Source: P.A. 89-691, eff. 12-31-96; 90-730, eff. 8-10-98.)".