093_HB1861
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1 AN ACT in relation to the University of Illinois.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
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 that 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 that such employee to
20 any 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
23 to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
24 contributions, and the trustees shall transmit such
25 withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10
26 working days from the time of the withholding. They may
27 accept the endowments and voluntary professorships or
28 departments in the University, from any person or persons or
29 corporations who may offer the same, and, at any regular
30 meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in
31 relation to such endowments and declare on what general
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1 principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such special
2 voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be
3 incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of
4 congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall at
5 any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in
6 idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation:
7 And provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of
8 any of the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
9 liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
10 of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating
11 such liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially
12 and properly applied to the payment of the same. Any lease to
13 the trustees of lands, buildings or facilities which will
14 support scientific research and development in such areas as
15 high technology, super computing, microelectronics,
16 biotechnology, robotics, physics and engineering shall be for
17 a term not to exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees
18 the option to purchase the lands, buildings or facilities.
19 The lease shall recite that it is subject to termination and
20 cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly fails
21 to make an appropriation to pay the rent payable under the
22 terms of the lease.
23 Leases for the purposes described herein exceeding 5
24 years shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
25 Education.
26 The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation
27 with other institutions of higher education, acquire by
28 purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge,
29 improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage medical
30 research and high technology parks, together with the
31 necessary lands, buildings, facilities, equipment and
32 personal property therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a)
33 the location and development of business and industry in the
34 State of Illinois, and (b) the increased application and
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1 development of technology and (c) the improvement and
2 development of the State's economy. The Board of Trustees may
3 lease to nonprofit corporations all or any part of the land,
4 buildings, facilities, equipment or other property included
5 in a medical research and high technology park upon such
6 terms and conditions as the University of Illinois may deem
7 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
8 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for
9 the construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
10 management of any such park; and may lease to any person,
11 firm, partnership or corporation, either public or private,
12 any part or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment
13 or other property of such park for such purposes and upon
14 such rentals, terms and conditions as the University may deem
15 advisable; and may finance all or part of the cost of any
16 such park, including the purchase, lease, construction,
17 reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, addition to, and
18 extension and maintenance of all or part of such high
19 technology park, and all equipment and furnishings, by
20 legislative appropriations, government grants, contracts,
21 private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such
22 high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may
23 make its other facilities and services available to tenants
24 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
25 reasonable and appropriate.
26 The Trustees shall have power (a) to purchase real
27 property and easements, and (b) to acquire real property and
28 easements in the manner provided by law for the exercise of
29 the right of eminent domain, and in the event negotiations
30 for the acquisition of real property or easements for making
31 any improvement which the Trustees are authorized to make
32 shall have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
33 resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the
34 execution of the project and therein made a finding that it
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1 is necessary to take such property or easements immediately
2 or at some specified later date in order to comply with the
3 schedule, the Trustees may acquire such property or easements
4 in the same manner provided in Sections 7-103 through 7-112
5 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
6 The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
7 the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
8 the Board are located to pay for services rendered by the
9 various taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and
10 to pay annually for services rendered thereafter by such
11 district such sums as may be determined by the Board upon
12 properties used solely for income producing purposes, title
13 to which is held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties
14 leased to members of the staff of the University of Illinois,
15 title to which is held in trust for said Board of Trustees
16 and upon properties leased to for-profit entities the title
17 to which properties is held by the Board of Trustees. A
18 certified copy of any such agreement made with the State's
19 Attorney shall be filed with the County Clerk and such sums
20 shall be distributed to the respective taxing districts by
21 the County Collector in such proportions that each taxing
22 district will receive therefrom such proportion as the tax
23 rate of such taxing district bears to the total tax rate that
24 would be levied against such properties if they were not
25 exempt from taxation under the Property Tax Code.
26 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois,
27 subject to the applicable civil service law, may appoint
28 persons to be members of the University of Illinois Police
29 Department. Members of the Police Department shall be peace
30 officers and as such have all powers possessed by policemen
31 in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests
32 on view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city
33 or county ordinances, except that they may exercise such
34 powers only in counties wherein the University and any of its
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1 branches or properties are located when such is required for
2 the protection of university properties and interests, and
3 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
4 counties, when requested by appropriate state or local law
5 enforcement officials; provided, however, that such officer
6 shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
7 The Board of Trustees must authorize to each member of
8 the University of Illinois Police Department and to any other
9 employee of the University of Illinois exercising the powers
10 of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
11 clearly states that the badge is authorized by the University
12 of Illinois and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No
13 other badge shall be authorized by the University of
14 Illinois.
15 The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by or
16 through the College of Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
17 community network established under subsection (b) of Section
18 5-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
19 The powers of the trustees as herein designated are
20 subject to the provisions of "An Act creating a Board of
21 Higher Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
22 appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named",
23 approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
24 The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to adopt
25 all administrative rules which may be necessary for the
26 effective administration, enforcement and regulation of all
27 matters for which the Board has jurisdiction or
28 responsibility.
29 (b) To assist in the provision of buildings and
30 facilities beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of
31 University purposes, the Board of Trustees of the University
32 of Illinois may exercise the following powers with regard to
33 the area located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois
34 at Chicago campus and bounded as follows: on the West by
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1 Morgan Street; on the North by Roosevelt Road; on the East by
2 Union Street; and on the South by 16th Street, in the City of
3 Chicago:
4 (1) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
5 facilities by purchase, including installments payable
6 over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of
7 such duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine,
8 or by exercise of the power of eminent domain;
9 (2) Sub-lease or contract to purchase through
10 installments all or any portion of buildings or
11 facilities for such duration and on such terms as the
12 Board of Trustees shall determine, including a term that
13 exceeds 5 years, provided that each such lease or
14 purchase contract shall be and shall recite that it is
15 subject to termination and cancellation in any year for
16 which the General Assembly fails to make an appropriation
17 to pay the rent or purchase installments payable under
18 the terms of such lease or purchase contract; and
19 (3) Sell property without compliance with the State
20 Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the
21 University Treasury in a special, separate development
22 fund account which the Auditor General shall examine to
23 assure compliance with this Act.
24 Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall
25 be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
26 Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by
27 the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of
28 the University, including, by way of example, residential
29 facilities for University staff and students and commercial
30 facilities which provide services needed by the University
31 community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
32 withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
33 the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
34 property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
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1 work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
2 sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
3 lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
4 services associated with the planning and development of the
5 area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
6 other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from
7 the General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to
8 an entity or person other than the University shall not be
9 subject to any limitations applicable to a State supported
10 college or university under any law. All development on the
11 land and all use of any buildings or facilities shall be
12 subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
13 (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01; 92-370, eff. 8-15-01.)