Public Act 094-1036
 
SB0848 Enrolled LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Mid-America Medical District Act.
 
    Section 5. Creation of District. There is created in the
City of East St. Louis a medical center district, the
Mid-America Medical District, whose boundaries are Martin
Luther King Drive on the Northeast, 10th Street up to Trendley
Avenue on the Southeast, Trendley Avenue and the confluence of
I-64, I-70, and I-55 on the Southwest and West, and a line
north of Collinsville, parallel to Collinsville, so as to
include both sides of Collinsville on the Northwest, excluding
any part of the City Hall complex and any property belonging to
the federal government. The District is created to attract and
retain academic centers of excellence, viable health care
facilities, medical research facilities, emerging high
technology enterprises, and other facilities and uses as
permitted by this Act.
 
    Section 10. Mid-America Medical District Commission.
    (a) There is created a body politic and corporate under the
corporate name of the Mid-America Medical District Commission
whose general purpose, in addition to and not in limitation of
those purposes and powers set forth in this Act, is to:
        (1) maintain the proper surroundings for a medical
    center and a related technology center in order to attract,
    stabilize, and retain within the District hospitals,
    clinics, research facilities, educational facilities, or
    other facilities permitted under this Act; and
        (2) provide for the orderly creation, maintenance,
    development, and expansion of (i) health care facilities
    and other ancillary or related facilities that the
    Commission may from time to time determine are established
    and operated (A) for any aspect of the carrying out of the
    Commission's purposes as set forth in this Act, (B) for the
    study, diagnosis, and treatment of human ailments and
    injuries, whether physical or mental, or (C) to promote
    medical, surgical, and scientific research and knowledge
    as permitted under this Act; and (ii) medical research and
    high technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
    buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
    for those parks.
    (b) The Commission has perpetual succession and the power
to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued except
in actions sounding in tort, to plead and be impleaded, to have
and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure. All
actions sounding in tort against the Commission shall be
prosecuted in the Court of Claims. The principal office of the
Commission shall be in the City of East St. Louis. The
Commission shall obtain, under the provisions of the Personnel
Code, such personnel as the Commission shall deem advisable to
carry out the purposes of this Act and the work of the
Commission.
    (c) The Commission shall consist of 9 appointed members and
3 ex-officio members. Three members shall be appointed by the
Governor. Three members shall be appointed by the Mayor of East
St. Louis, with the consent of the city council. Three members
shall be appointed by the Chairman of the County Board of St.
Clair County. All appointed members shall hold office for a
term of 3 years ending on December 31, and until their
successors are appointed; except that of the initial appointed
members, each appointing authority shall designate one
appointee to serve for a term ending December 31, 2007, one
appointee to serve for a term ending December 31, 2008, and one
appointee to serve for a term ending December 31, 2009.
    The Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity or his or
her designee, the Director of Public Health or his or her
designee, and the Secretary of Human Services or his or her
designee shall serve as ex-officio members.
    (d) Any vacancy in the appointed membership of the
Commission occurring by reason of the death, resignation,
disqualification, removal, or inability or refusal to act of
any of the members of the Commission shall be filled by the
authority that had appointed the particular member, and for the
unexpired term of office of that particular member.
    (e) The Commission shall hold regular meetings annually for
the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and
Treasurer, for the adoption of a budget, and for such other
business as may properly come before it. The Commission shall
establish the duties and responsibilities of its officers by
rule. The President or any 3 members of the Commission may call
special meetings of the Commission. Each Commissioner shall
take an oath of office for the faithful performance of his or
her duties. The Commission may not transact business at a
meeting of the Commission unless there is present at the
meeting a quorum consisting of at least 7 Commissioners.
Meetings may be held by telephone conference or other
communications equipment by means of which all persons
participating in the meeting can communicate with each other.
    (f) The Commission shall submit to the General Assembly,
not later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, a detailed
report covering its operations for the 2 preceding calendar
years and a statement of its program for the next 2 years.
    The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall
be satisfied by filing copies of the report with the Speaker,
the Minority Leader, and the Clerk of the House of
Representatives and the President, the Minority Leader, and the
Secretary of the Senate and with the Legislative Research Unit,
as required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization
Act, and by filing such additional copies with the State
Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly
as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State
Library Act.
    (g) The Auditor General shall conduct audits of the
Commission in the same manner as the Auditor General conducts
audits of State agencies under the Illinois State Auditing Act.
    (h) Neither the Commission nor the District have any power
to tax.
    (i) The Commission is a public body and subject to the Open
Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
 
    Section 15. Grants; loans; contracts. The Commission may
apply for and accept grants, loans, or appropriations from the
State of Illinois, the federal government, any State or federal
agency or instrumentality, any unit of local government, or any
other person or entity to be used for any of the purposes of
the District. The Commission may enter into any agreement with
the State of Illinois, the federal government, any State or
federal instrumentality, any unit of local government, or any
other person or entity in relation to the grants, matching
grants, loans, or appropriations. The Commission also may, by
contractual agreement, accept and collect assessments or fees
from entities who enter into such a contractual agreement for
District enhancement and improvements, common area shared
services, shared facilities, or other activities or
expenditures in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. The
Commission may make grants to neighborhood organizations
within the District for the purpose of benefitting the
community.
 
    Section 20. Property; acquisition. The Commission is
authorized to acquire the fee simple title to real property
lying within the District and personal property required for
its purposes, by gift, purchase, or otherwise. Title shall be
taken in the corporate name of the Commission. The Commission
may acquire by lease any real property located within the
District and personal property found by the Commission to be
necessary for its purposes and to which the Commission finds
that it need not acquire the fee simple title for carrying out
of those purposes. All real and personal property within the
District, except that owned and used for purposes authorized
under this Act by medical institutions or allied educational
institutions, hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, dormitories or
homes for the nurses, doctors, students, instructors, or other
officers or employees of those institutions located in the
District, or any real property that is used for offices or for
recreational purposes in connection with those institutions,
or any improved residential property within a currently
effective historical district properly designated under a
federal statute or a State or local statute that has been
certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of
the Treasury as containing criteria that will substantially
achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings
of historical significance to the district, may be acquired by
the Commission in its corporate name under the provisions for
the exercise of the right of eminent domain under Article VII
of the Code of Civil Procedure. The Commission has no
quick-take powers, no zoning powers, and no power to establish
or enforce building codes. The Commission may not acquire any
property pursuant to this Section before a comprehensive master
plan has been approved under Section 65.
 
    Section 25. Construction. The Commission may, in its
corporate capacity, construct or cause to be constructed within
the District hospitals, sanitariums, clinics, laboratories, or
any other institution, building, or structure or other
ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may, from
time to time, determine are established and operated (i) for
the carrying out of any aspect of the Commission's purposes as
set forth in this Act, for the study, diagnosis, and treatment
of human ailments and injuries, whether physical or mental, or
to promote medical, surgical, and scientific research and
knowledge, for any uses the Commission shall determine will
support and nurture facilities and uses permitted by this Act,
or for such nursing, extended care, or other facilities as the
Commission shall find useful in the study of, research in, or
treatment of illnesses or infirmities peculiar to aged people,
after a public hearing to be held by any Commissioner or other
person authorized by the Commission to conduct the hearing,
which Commissioner or other person has the power to administer
oaths and affirmations and take the testimony of witnesses and
receive such documentary evidence as shall be pertinent, the
record of which hearing he or she shall certify to the
Commission, which record shall become part of the records of
the Commission, notice of the time, place, and purpose of the
hearings to be given by a single publication notice in a
secular newspaper of general circulation in St. Clair County at
least 10 days before the date of the hearing, or (ii) for such
institutions as shall engage in the training, education, or
rehabilitation of persons who by reason of illness or physical
infirmity are wholly or partially deprived of their powers of
vision or hearing or of the use of such other part or parts of
their bodies as prevent them from pursuing normal activities of
life, for office buildings for physicians or dealers in medical
accessories, for dormitories, homes, or residences for the
medical profession, including interns, nurses, students, or
other officers or employees of the institutions within the
District, for the use of relatives of patients in the hospitals
or other institutions within the District, for the
rehabilitation or establishment of residential structures
within a historic district properly designated under a federal
statute or a State or local statute that has been certified by
the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury
as containing criteria that will substantially achieve the
purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings of historic
significance to the district, or such other areas of the
District as the Commission shall designate, for research,
development, and resultant production in any of the fields of
medicine, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, physics, and genetically
engineered products, for biotechnology, information
technology, medical technology, or environmental technology,
for the research and development of engineering, or for
computer technology related to any of the purposes for which
the Commission may construct structures and improvements
within the District. All such structures and improvements shall
be erected and constructed in accordance with the provisions of
the Illinois Procurement Code that apply to State agencies. No
construction may be undertaken pursuant to this Section before
a comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 65.
 
    Section 30. Relocation assistance. The Commission shall
provide relocation assistance to persons and entities
displaced by the Commission's acquisition of property and
improvement of the District. Relocation assistance shall not be
less than provided under the federal Uniform Relocation
Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970
and the regulations under that Act, including the eligibility
criteria. Relocation assistance may include assistance with
the moving of a residential unit to a new location. The
Commission shall establish a single point of contact for all
relocation assistance under this Section.
 
    Section 35. Power to sell or lease. The Commission may
sell, convey, transfer, or lease, all at fair market value, any
title or interest in real property owned by it to any person or
persons, to be used, subject to the restrictions of this Act,
for the purposes stated in Section 25, or for the purpose of
serving persons using the facilities offered within the
District or for carrying out of any aspect of the Commission's
purposes as set forth in Section 10 of this Act, subject to
such restrictions as to the use of the real property as the
Commission shall determine will carry out the purpose of this
Act. To assure that the use of the real property so sold or
leased is in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the
Commission shall inquire into and satisfy itself concerning the
financial ability of the purchaser to complete the project for
which the real property is sold or leased in accordance with a
plan to be presented by the purchaser or lessee, which plan
shall be submitted, in writing, to the Commission. Under the
plan, the purchaser or lessee shall undertake (1) to use the
land for the purposes designated in the plan so presented; (2)
to commence and complete the construction of the buildings or
other structures to be included in the project within such
periods of time as the Commission fixes as reasonable; and (3)
to comply with such other conditions as the Commission shall
determine are necessary to carry out the project. All
conveyances and leases authorized in this Section shall be on
condition that, in the event of use for other than the purposes
prescribed in this Act, or of nonuse for a period of one year,
title to the property shall revert to the Commission. All
conveyances and leases made by the Commission to any
corporation or person for the use of serving the residents or
any person using the facilities offered within the District
shall be on condition that in the event of violation of any of
the restrictions as to the use of the property as the
Commission shall have determined will carry out the purposes of
this Act, that title to the property shall revert to the
Commission. If, however, the Commission finds that financing
necessary for the acquisition or lease of any real estate or
for the construction of any building or improvement to be used
for purposes prescribed in this Act cannot be obtained if title
to the land or building or improvement is subject to such a
reverter provision, which finding shall be made by the
Commission after public hearing held pursuant to a single
publication notice given in a secular newspaper of general
circulation in St. Clair County at least 10 days before the
date of the hearing, the notice to specify the time, place, and
purpose for the hearing, and upon that finding being made, the
Commission may cause the real property to be conveyed free of a
reverter provision, provided that at least 7 members of the
Commission vote in favor thereof. The Commission may also
provide in the conveyances, leases, or other documentation
provisions for notice of such violations or default and the
cure thereof for the benefit of any lender or mortgagee as the
Commission shall determine are appropriate. If, at a regularly
scheduled meeting, the Commission resolves that a parcel of
real estate leased by it, or in which it has sold the fee
simple title or any lesser estate, is not being used for the
purposes prescribed in this Act or has been in nonuse for a
period of one year, the Commission may file a lawsuit in the
circuit court of St. Clair County to enforce the terms of the
sale or lease. If a reverter of title to any property is
ordered by the court under the terms of this Act, the interest
of the Commission shall be subject to any then existing valid
mortgage or trust deed in the nature of a mortgage, but if the
title is acquired through foreclosure of that mortgage or trust
deed or by deed in lieu of foreclosure of that mortgage or
trust deed, then the title to the property shall not revert,
but shall be subject to the restrictions as to use, but not any
penalty for nonuse, contained in this Act with respect to any
mortgagee in possession or its successor or assigns.
    No conveyance of real property shall be executed by the
Commission without the prior written approval of the Governor.
The Commission may not sell, convey, transfer, or lease any
property pursuant to this Section before a comprehensive master
plan has been approved under Section 65.
 
    Section 40. Notice. Before holding any public hearing
prescribed in Section 35 of this Act, or any meeting regarding
the passage of any resolution to file a lawsuit, the Commission
shall give notice to the grantee or lessee, or his or her legal
representatives, successors, or assigns, of the time and place
of the proceeding. The notice shall be accompanied by a
statement signed by the Secretary of the Commission, or by any
person authorized by the Commission to sign the same, setting
forth any act or things done or omitted to be done in
violation, or claimed to be in violation, of any restriction as
to the use of the property, whether the restriction be
prescribed in any of the terms of this Act or by any
restriction as to the use of the property determined by the
Commission under the terms of this Act. The notice of the time
and place fixed for the proceeding shall also be given to such
person or persons as the Commission shall deem necessary. The
notice may be given by registered mail, addressed to the
grantee, lessee, or legal representatives, successors, or
assigns, at the last known address of the grantee, lessee, or
legal representatives, successors, or assigns.
 
    Section 45. Rules. The Commission may adopt reasonable and
proper rules, in accordance with the Illinois Administrative
Procedure Act, relative to the exercise of its powers, and
proper rules to govern its proceedings, to regulate the mode
and manner of all hearings held by it or at its direction, and
to alter and amend those rules.
 
    Section 50. Official documents. Copies of all official
documents, findings, and orders of the Commission, certified by
a Commissioner or by the Secretary of the Commission to be true
copies of the originals, under the official seal of the
Commission, shall be evidence in like manner as the originals.
 
    Section 55. Judicial review. Any party may obtain a
judicial review of a final order or decision of the Commission
in the circuit court of St. Clair County only under and in
accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Review Law
and the rules adopted under that Law. The circuit court shall
take judicial notice of all the rules of practice and procedure
of the Commission.
 
    Section 60. Parks. The Commission may set apart any part of
the District as a park, except those areas owned, operated, or
used for purposes authorized under this Act by organizations or
institutions engaged in the delivery or conduct of health care
services, education, or research, and may construct, control,
and maintain the same or may provide by contract with the East
St. Louis Park District or the City of East St. Louis for the
construction, control, and maintenance of any area within the
District set apart as a park.
 
    Section 65. Master plan; improvement and management of
District. The Commission shall prepare and approve a
comprehensive master plan for the orderly development and
management of all property within the District. The master
plan, and any amendment to the master plan, shall not take
effect, however, until it has been approved by the advisory
council and the East St. Louis city council. The Commission
shall take the actions permitted to be taken by it under this
Act as it may determine are appropriate to provide conditions
most favorable for the special care and treatment of the sick
and injured and for the study of disease and for any other
purpose in Section 25 of this Act. In the master plan, the
Commission may provide for shared services and facilities
within the District for the accredited schools of medicine and
the licensed non-profit acute care hospitals within the
District.
 
    Section 70. Advisory Council. The Commission must
establish an advisory council consisting of 2 representatives,
appointed for one-year terms by the Mayor of East St. Louis, of
each recognized neighborhood organization that the Mayor
determines has a legitimate interest in the development and
improvement of the District. There is no limit on the number of
terms to which a person may be appointed as a member. The
advisory council shall review and make recommendations to the
Commission with respect to the comprehensive master plan to be
adopted by the Commission. The advisory council may fulfill
such other responsibilities as the Commission may request in
furtherance of the purposes of this Act. The advisory council
shall meet at the call of the President of the Commission and
shall conduct its affairs in accordance with the rules that the
Commission may adopt from time to time for the governance and
operation of the advisory council.
 
    Section 75. Public hearing. The Commission shall conduct a
public hearing prior to either acquiring through eminent domain
under Section 20 of this Act real or personal property within
the District or approving under Section 70 of this Act a
comprehensive master plan. The Commission shall also conduct a
public hearing whenever it is otherwise required by law to do
so, and may conduct a public hearing whenever it may elect to
do so.
    The Commission shall conduct the public hearing called by
it in accordance with the requirements of the law mandating it,
if any, or in accordance with the provisions of this Section if
either the law mandating it is silent as to the procedures for
its holding or if the Commission elects to hold a public
hearing in the absence of any law mandating it.
    In the absence of any law, or of any procedures in any law,
mandating the holding of a public hearing, the Commission may
authorize a Commissioner or other person of legal age to
conduct a hearing. The Commissioner or other authorized person
has the power to administer oaths and affirmations, take the
testimony of witnesses, take and receive the production of
papers, books, records, accounts, and documents, receive
pertinent evidence, and certify the record of the hearing. The
record of the hearing shall become part of the Commission's
record. Notice of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing
shall be given by a single publication notice in a secular
newspaper of general circulation in St. Clair County at least
10 days before the date of the hearing.
 
    Section 80. Jurisdiction. This Act shall not be construed
to limit the jurisdiction of the City of East St. Louis to
territory outside the limits of the District nor to impair any
power now possessed by or hereafter granted to the City of East
St. Louis or to cities generally. Property owned by and
exclusively used by the Commission shall be exempt from
taxation and shall be subject to condemnation by the State and
any municipal corporation or agency of the State for any State
or municipal purpose under the provisions for the exercise of
the right of eminent domain under Article VII of the Code of
Civil Procedure.
 
    Section 85. Disposition of money; income fund. All money
received by the Commission from the sale or lease of any
property, in excess of the amount expended by the Commission
for authorized purposes under this Act shall be paid into the
State treasury for deposit into the Mid-America Medical
District Income Fund. The Commission is authorized to use all
money received as rentals for the purposes of planning,
acquisition, and development of property within the District,
for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of property of
the Commission, and for all purposes and powers set forth in
this Act. All moneys held pursuant to this Section shall be
maintained in a depository approved by the State Treasurer. The
Auditor General shall, at least biennially, audit or cause to
be audited all records and accounts of the Commission
pertaining to the operation of the District.
 
    Section 90. Attorney General. The Attorney General of the
State of Illinois is the legal advisor to the Commission and
shall prosecute or defend, as the case may be, all actions
brought by or against the Commission.
 
    Section 905. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.663 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.663 new)
    Sec. 5.663. The Mid-America Medical District Income Fund.