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90_SB0770

      110 ILCS 685/30-45
          Amends the Northern Illinois  University  Law.   Makes  a
      change  of  grammar  in the provisions relating to the powers
      and duties of the University's Board of Trustees.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Northern Illinois University  Law  by
 2    changing Section 30-45.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.   The  Northern  Illinois  University  Law  is
 6    amended by changing Section 30-45 as follows:
 7        (110 ILCS 685/30-45)
 8        Sec.  30-45.  Powers  and  duties.   The Board also shall
 9    have power and it shall be its duty:
10        (1)  To make rules, regulations and bylaws that are,  not
11    inconsistent  with  law, for the government and management of
12    Northern Illinois University and its branches;
13        (2)  To  employ,  and,  for  good  cause,  to  remove   a
14    President  of Northern Illinois University, and all necessary
15    deans,   professors,    associate    professors,    assistant
16    professors, instructors, other educational and administrative
17    assistants,   and  all  other  necessary  employees,  and  to
18    prescribe their duties and contract with them concerning upon
19    matters relating to tenure, salaries and retirement  benefits
20    in  accordance with the State Universities Civil Service Act.
21    Whenever the Board establishes a search committee to fill the
22    position of President of Northern Illinois University,  there
23    shall  be  minority  representation, including women, on that
24    search committee.  The Board shall, upon the written  request
25    of an employee of Northern Illinois University, withhold from
26    the  compensation  of  that  employee  any  dues, payments or
27    contributions  payable  by  such  employee   to   any   labor
28    organization  as  defined  in  the Illinois Educational Labor
29    Relations Act.  Under such arrangement, an  amount  shall  be
30    withheld  from  each regular payroll period which is equal to
31    the pro rata share of the annual dues plus  any  payments  or
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 1    contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
 2    to  the  specified  labor organization within 10 working days
 3    from the time of the withholding;
 4        (3)  To prescribe the courses of study  to  be  followed,
 5    and  textbooks  and apparatus to be used at Northern Illinois
 6    University;
 7        (4)  To issue upon the  recommendation  of  the  faculty,
 8    diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
 9    required  studies of Northern Illinois University, and confer
10    such  professional  and  literary  degrees  as  are   usually
11    conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
12    or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
13    appropriate;
14        (5)  To  examine  into  the  conditions,  management, and
15    administration of Northern Illinois  University,  to  provide
16    the  requisite  buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
17    enterprises, and  to  fix  and  collect  matriculation  fees;
18    tuition  fees;  fees for student activities; fees for student
19    facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
20    stadia or  other  recreational  facilities;  student  welfare
21    fees;  laboratory  fees;  and  similar  fees for supplies and
22    materials. The expense of the building, improving,  repairing
23    and supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
24    and  apparatus  for  conducting Northern Illinois University,
25    the reimbursed expenses of members  of  the  Board,  and  the
26    salaries or compensation of the President, assistants, agents
27    and other employees of Northern Illinois University, shall be
28    a  charge  upon the State Treasury.  All other expenses shall
29    be chargeable against students, and the Board shall  regulate
30    the charges accordingly;
31        (6)  To  succeed  to  and to administer all trusts, trust
32    property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or  pertaining
33    to Northern Illinois University;
34        (7)  To    accept   endowments   of   professorships   or
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 1    departments in Northern Illinois University from  any  person
 2    who  may  proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe
 3    rules and regulations in relation to endowments  and  declare
 4    on what general principles they may be accepted;
 5        (8)  To  enter into contracts with the Federal government
 6    for providing courses of instruction and  other  services  at
 7    Northern  Illinois  University for persons serving in or with
 8    the military or naval forces of the  United  States,  and  to
 9    provide such courses of instruction and other services;
10        (9)  To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
11    Center   to   obtain  services  related  to  electronic  data
12    processing;
13        (10)  To provide for  the  receipt  and  expenditures  of
14    Federal  funds  paid  to  Northern Illinois University by the
15    Federal government for instruction  and  other  services  for
16    persons  serving  in  or with the military or naval forces of
17    the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
18        (11)  To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
19    law,  persons  to  be  members  of  the   Northern   Illinois
20    University   Police   Department.   Members   of  the  Police
21    Department shall be conservators of the  peace  and  as  such
22    have  all  powers  possessed  by  policemen  in  cities,  and
23    sheriffs,  including  the  power  to  make arrests on view or
24    warrants of violations of State  statutes,  University  rules
25    and  regulations  and  city or county ordinances, except that
26    they may exercise such powers only  within  counties  wherein
27    Northern  Illinois  University  and  any  of  its branches or
28    properties  are  located  when  such  is  required  for   the
29    protection  of  University  properties and interests, and its
30    students and personnel, and otherwise, within such  counties,
31    when  requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement
32    officials. However, such officers  shall  have  no  power  to
33    serve and execute civil processes;
34        (12)  The  Board  may,  directly  or  in cooperation with
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 1    other institutions of higher education, acquire  by  purchase
 2    or  lease  or  otherwise,  and  construct,  enlarge, improve,
 3    equip, complete, operate, control  and  manage  research  and
 4    high  technology  parks,  together  with the necessary lands,
 5    buildings,  facilities,  equipment,  and  personal   property
 6    therefor,  to  encourage  and facilitate (i) the location and
 7    development  of  business  and  industry  in  the  State   of
 8    Illinois,  and (ii) the increased application and development
 9    of technology, and (iii) the improvement and  development  of
10    the  State's  economy.   The  Board  may  lease  to nonprofit
11    corporations  all  or  any  part  of  the  land,   buildings,
12    facilities,   equipment  or  other  property  included  in  a
13    research  and  high  technology  park  upon  such  terms  and
14    conditions as the Board may deem advisable and enter into any
15    contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may
16    be necessary or suitable  for  the  construction,  financing,
17    operation  and  maintenance  and management of any such park;
18    and  may  lease  to  any   person,   firm,   partnership   or
19    corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the
20    land,  building,  facilities,  equipment or other property of
21    such park for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms  and
22    conditions  as  the Board may deem advisable; and may finance
23    all or part of the cost  of  any  such  park,  including  the
24    purchase,  lease,  construction, reconstruction, improvement,
25    remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
26    or part of such high technology park, and all  equipment  and
27    furnishings,   by   legislative   appropriations,  government
28    grants, contracts, private gifts, loans,  receipts  from  the
29    operation  of  such high technology park, rentals and similar
30    receipts; and may make  its  other  facilities  and  services
31    available  to  tenants or other occupants of any such park at
32    rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)

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