(30 ILCS 105/6a-1a)

Sec. 6a-1a. (1) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, the following items of income received by Northern Illinois University for general operational and educational purposes shall be retained by the University in its own treasury and credited to an account known as the University Income Fund that it shall establish in its treasury for purposes of this paragraph: (a) tuition and laboratory fees not pledged to discharge obligations arising out of the issuance of revenue bonds, library fees, all any interest which may be earned thereon; and (b) excess income from auxiliary enterprises and activities as provided in paragraph (2) of this Section, and all other income arising out of any activity or purpose not specified in paragraph (2), (3), (4) or (5) of this Section upon receipt of the same without any deduction whatever. Within 10 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, all moneys then held in the Northern Illinois University Income Fund established in the State Treasury that have been covered and paid into that fund by or on behalf of that University shall be repaid to the University upon the warrant of the State Comptroller, directed to the State Treasurer as an order to pay the sum required to be repaid under this paragraph and shown as due on the warrant. The University shall deposit the amount so repaid to it in a university bank account within the time period established for like amounts in Section 2 of the State Officers and Employees Money Disposition Act, to be credited to the University Income Fund established by the University in its own treasury for purposes of this paragraph. All moneys from time to time held in the University Income Fund in the treasury of the University shall be used by the University, pursuant to the order and direction of the Board of Trustees of the University, for the support and improvement of the University, except for amounts disbursed from that University Income Fund for refunds to students for whom duplicate payment has been made and to students who have withdrawn after registration and who are entitled to such refunds.

(2) The following items of income shall be retained by the University in its own treasury: endowment funds, gifts, trust funds, and Federal aid; funds received in connection with contracts with governmental, public, or private agencies or persons, for research or services including funds which are paid as reimbursement to the University; funds received in connection with reserves authorized by Section 30-60 of the Northern Illinois University Law; funds received in connection with its operation of research and high technology parks and with the retention, receipt, assignment, license, sale or transfer of interests in, rights to, or income from discoveries, inventions, patents, or copyrightable works; funds retained by the University under the authority of paragraph (3), (4) or (5) of this Section; and funds received from the operation of student or staff residence facilities, student and staff medical and health programs, Union buildings, bookstores, farms, stores, and other auxiliary enterprises or activities which are self-supporting in whole or in part. Any income derived from such auxiliary enterprises or activities which is not necessary to their support, maintenance, or development shall not, however, be applied to any general operational or educational purposes but shall be retained by the University in its own treasury and credited to the University Income Fund that it shall establish in its treasury as provided in paragraph (1) of this Section.

(3) The Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University may retain in its treasury any funds derived from rentals, service charges and laboratory and building service charges or other sources, assessed or obtained for or arising out of the operation of any building or buildings or structure or structures and pledged to discharge obligations created in order to complete or operate such building or structure, or for the payment of revenue bonds issued for such University by the Teachers College Board, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities, the Board of Regents, or the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, such funds to be disbursed from time to time pursuant to the order and direction of the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, and in accordance with any contracts, pledges, trusts or agreements heretofore made with respect thereto by the Teachers College Board, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities or the Board of Regents, or hereafter made by the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University.

(4) The Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University may also retain in its treasury, out of student fees and tuition, such sums annually as the Board determines are necessary to supplement revenue derived from any building or buildings constructed or acquired on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995, or to supplement revenues derived from any building or buildings having bonds outstanding thereon which bonds have heretofore been issued for the University by the Teachers College Board, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities or the Board of Regents and which bonds are refunded under the provisions of the Act under which they were issued or under the provisions of any other law of this State authorizing the refunding of such bonds, and may pledge or by resolution may make a supplementary allocation of the funds so retained out of students' fees and tuition for the retirement of such bonds as may be issued under any such Act or law. Such funds as are so pledged shall annually be credited to the account to which the pledge applies. Such funds as are supplementarily allocated by Board resolution subsequent to the resolution creating the bonds shall be credited in accordance with the terms of the resolution making such supplementary allocation to the account to which the allocation applies. The Board may authorize such supplementation only after a determination by it that the maximum revenues which may reasonably and economically be derived from the operation of a building proposed to be constructed or acquired under the Act under which the bonds therefor are issued will be insufficient to meet the costs of operation and maintenance and to pay the principal of and interest on bonds so issued for such building, or after a determination by it that the maximum revenues which may reasonably and economically be derived from the operation of a building already constructed or acquired under the Act under which the bonds therefor were issued are or will be insufficient to meet the costs of operation and maintenance and to pay the principal of and interest on bonds issued for such building. In no event shall the supplementation from University income be in excess of an amount which, when added to the revenues to be derived from the operation of the building or buildings, will be sufficient to meet the annual debt service requirements on the bonds issued in respect to such building or buildings, the annual cost of maintenance or operation of such building or buildings, and to provide for such reserves, accounts or covenants which the resolution authorizing the issuing of such bonds may require.

(5) The Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University may also retain in its treasury (a) all moneys received from the sale of all bonds issued under the Northern Illinois University Revenue Bond Law, (b) all fees, rentals and other charges from students, staff members and others using or being served by, or having the right to use or the right to be served by, or to operate any project acquired under the Northern Illinois University Revenue Bond Law, (c) all tuition, registration, matriculation, health, hospital, medical, laboratory, admission, student activities, student services, and all other fees collected from students matriculated, registered or otherwise enrolled at and attending the University pledged under the terms of any resolution authorizing bonds, or authorizing a supplemental allocation of fees for debt service of bonds theretofore issued pursuant to the Northern Illinois University Revenue Bond Law, and (d) all rentals from any facility or building acquired under the Northern Illinois University Revenue Bond Law and leased to the United States of America.

(6) Whenever funds retained by the University in its own treasury as provided in this Section are deposited with a bank or savings and loan association and the amount of the deposit exceeds the amount of federal deposit insurance coverage, a bond or pledged securities shall be obtained. Only the types of securities which the State Treasurer may, in his discretion, accept for amounts not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation under Section 11 of the Deposit of State Moneys Act may be accepted as pledged securities. The market value of the bond or pledged securities shall at all times be equal to or greater than the uninsured portion of the deposit.

(7) The Auditor General shall audit or cause to be audited all items of income referred to in this Section and all other income and expenditures of the University.

(Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96; 89-602, eff. 8-2-96.)