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 1        AN ACT concerning medical districts.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  1.   Short  title.  This Act may be cited as the
 5    Illinois Medical District at Springfield Act.

 6        Section 5. Creation of District.  There is created in the
 7    City of Springfield a medical center district,  the  Illinois
 8    Medical  District  at  Springfield, whose boundaries are 11th
 9    Street on the east, North Grand Avenue on the  north,  Walnut
10    Street  on  the  west,  and  Madison Street on the south. The
11    District is created to attract and retain academic centers of
12    excellence, viable health care facilities,  medical  research
13    facilities,  emerging  high technology enterprises, and other
14    facilities and uses as permitted by this Act.

15        Section 10.  Illinois  Medical  District  at  Springfield
16    Commission.
17        (a)  There  is created a body politic and corporate under
18    the corporate  name  of  the  Illinois  Medical  District  at
19    Springfield  Commission whose general purpose, in addition to
20    and not in limitation of those purposes and powers set  forth
21    in this Act, is to:
22             (1)  maintain  the proper surroundings for a medical
23        center and  a  related  technology  center  in  order  to
24        attract,   stabilize,  and  retain  within  the  District
25        hospitals,  clinics,  research  facilities,   educational
26        facilities, or other facilities permitted under this Act;
27        and
28             (2)  provide  for the orderly creation, maintenance,
29        development, and expansion of (i) health care  facilities
30        and  other  ancillary  or  related  facilities  that  the
 
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 1        Commission   may   from   time   to  time  determine  are
 2        established and  operated  (A)  for  any  aspect  of  the
 3        carrying out of the Commission's purposes as set forth in
 4        this  Act, (B) for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of
 5        human ailments and injuries, whether physical or  mental,
 6        or  (C)  to  promote  medical,  surgical,  and scientific
 7        research and knowledge as permitted under this  Act;  and
 8        (ii) medical research and high technology parks, together
 9        with   the   necessary   lands,   buildings,  facilities,
10        equipment, and personal property for those parks.
11        (b)  The Commission  has  perpetual  succession  and  the
12    power  to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued
13    except  in  actions  sounding  in  tort,  to  plead  and   be
14    impleaded,  to  have  and use a common seal, and to alter the
15    same at pleasure. All actions sounding in  tort  against  the
16    Commission  shall  be  prosecuted in the Court of Claims. The
17    principal office of the Commission shall be in  the  City  of
18    Springfield.
19        (c)  The   Commission  shall  consist  of  the  following
20    members: 4 members of the public appointed by  the  Governor,
21    with  the  advice and consent of the Senate; 4 members of the
22    public appointed by the Mayor of Springfield, with the advice
23    and consent of the Springfield city council, at  least  2  of
24    whom  shall  be members of neighborhood organizations located
25    within the District; 2 members appointed  by  each  governing
26    body of each accredited public school of medicine located and
27    conducting  programs  of  study  in  the District; one member
28    appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the
29    Senate, and one member appointed by the Mayor of Springfield,
30    with the advice and consent of the Springfield city  council,
31    representing  each  licensed  non-profit  acute care hospital
32    within the District, each of whom must at  all  times  during
33    the  term  of  appointment  be  and  remain an officer of the
34    governing board of, or an officer of, the licensed non-profit
 
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 1    acute care hospital; and 2 physician members representing the
 2    chartered county medical society in the county that  includes
 3    the District, with one member appointed by the Governor, with
 4    the advice and consent of the Senate and one member appointed
 5    by  the  Mayor of Springfield, with the advice and consent of
 6    the Springfield city council.  A  licensed  non-profit  acute
 7    care  hospital member shall no longer be qualified to be, and
 8    shall promptly be replaced as, a Commissioner, as provided in
 9    this Act, if and when the member no longer is an  officer  of
10    the  governing  board  of,  or  an  officer  of, the licensed
11    non-profit acute  care  hospital  represented.  The  members,
12    except the physician members, members representing hospitals,
13    and  the  members  representing  a public school of medicine,
14    appointed by the Governor and by  the  Mayor  of  Springfield
15    shall  not  have  been  at  any time during the 2-year period
16    immediately before their appointment  as  Commissioners,  and
17    shall not be at any time during the term of their appointment
18    as  Commissioners,  (i) members of the faculty of a school of
19    medicine, (ii) members of the medical or dental staff  of  an
20    acute  care hospital, or (iii) directors, trustees, officers,
21    employees, or agents of a person  or  entity  that  owns  and
22    operates  a  health  care  delivery  facility  or  service in
23    Springfield or of any person or entity that controls or owns,
24    is controlled or owned by, or  is  under  common  control  or
25    ownership  with any such person or party.  All members of the
26    Commission other than the initial public members appointed by
27    the Governor shall be appointed to hold office for a term  of
28    5  years and until their successors are appointed as provided
29    in this Act.  The initial public members  of  the  Commission
30    appointed  by  the  Governor  shall  be  appointed  for terms
31    ending, respectively on the second, third, fourth, and  fifth
32    anniversaries  of their appointments.  Thereafter, the public
33    members appointed by the Governor shall be appointed to  hold
34    office  for  a term of 5 years and until their successors are
 
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 1    appointed as provided in this Act.
 2        (d)  Any vacancy in  the  membership  of  the  Commission
 3    occurring    by    reason    of   the   death,   resignation,
 4    disqualification, removal, or inability or refusal to act  of
 5    any  of  the members of the Commission shall be filled by the
 6    entity that had appointed the particular member, and for  the
 7    unexpired term of office of that particular member. A vacancy
 8    caused  by  the expiration of the period for which the member
 9    was appointed shall be filled by a new appointment for a term
10    of 5 years from the date  of  the  expiration  of  the  prior
11    5-year  term notwithstanding when the appointment is actually
12    made. The Commission shall obtain, under  the  provisions  of
13    the Personnel Code, such personnel as to the Commission shall
14    deem  advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act and the
15    work of the Commission.
16        (e)  The Commission shall hold regular meetings  annually
17    for  the  election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary,
18    and Treasurer, for the adoption of a  budget,  and  for  such
19    other   business   as  may  properly  come  before  it.   The
20    Commission shall elect as the President a  public  member  of
21    the  Commission  appointed by the Mayor of Springfield and as
22    the  Vice-President  a  public  member  of   the   Commission
23    appointed  by  the  Governor.  The Commission shall establish
24    the duties and responsibilities of its officers by rule.  The
25    President or any 4 members of the Commission may call special
26    meetings of the Commission.  Each Commissioner shall take  an
27    oath  of  office  for  the faithful performance of his or her
28    duties.  The  Commission  may  not  transact  business  at  a
29    meeting  of  the  Commission  unless  there is present at the
30    meeting a quorum consisting of at least three-fourths of  the
31    entire  number  of Commissioners then in office (but not less
32    than 12).  Meetings may be held by  telephone  conference  or
33    other  communications equipment by means of which all persons
34    participating in the meeting can communicate with each other.
 
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 1    The Commission may not take an action at  a  meeting  of  the
 2    Commission  at  which  a  quorum is present unless at least a
 3    majority of the entire number of Commissioners then in office
 4    (but not less than 10), including at least  one  Commissioner
 5    appointed  by the governing body of each accredited school of
 6    medicine and at  least  one  Commissioner  representing  each
 7    licensed  non-profit  acute care hospital within the District
 8    approves the action.
 9        (f)  The Commission shall submit to the General Assembly,
10    not later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, a  detailed
11    report  covering  its operations for the 2 preceding calendar
12    years and a statement of its program for the next 2 years.
13        The requirement for reporting  to  the  General  Assembly
14    shall  be  satisfied  by filing copies of the report with the
15    Speaker, the Minority Leader, and the Clerk of the  House  of
16    Representatives  and  the President, the Minority Leader, and
17    the Secretary of the Senate and with the Legislative Research
18    Unit, as required by Section  3.1  of  the  General  Assembly
19    Organization  Act,  and by filing such additional copies with
20    the State  Government  Report  Distribution  Center  for  the
21    General  Assembly  as  is  required  under  paragraph  (t) of
22    Section 7 of the State Library Act.
23        (g)  The Auditor General  shall  conduct  audits  of  the
24    Commission in the same manner as the Auditor General conducts
25    audits  of  State  agencies under the Illinois State Auditing
26    Act.
27        (h)  Neither the Commission nor  the  District  have  any
28    power to tax.
29        (i)  The  Commission  is a public body and subject to the
30    Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

31        Section 15. Grants; loans; contracts.  The Commission may
32    apply for and accept grants, loans,  or  appropriations  from
33    the  State  of Illinois, the federal government, any State or
 
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 1    federal  agency  or  instrumentality,  any  unit   of   local
 2    government,  or any other person or entity to be used for any
 3    of the purposes of the District.  The  Commission  may  enter
 4    into  any  agreement  with the State of Illinois, the federal
 5    government, any State or federal instrumentality, any unit of
 6    local government, or any other person or entity  in  relation
 7    to  the  grants,  matching  grants, loans, or appropriations.
 8    The Commission also may, by contractual agreement, accept and
 9    collect assessments or fees from entities who enter into such
10    a  contractual  agreement  for   District   enhancement   and
11    improvements, common area shared services, shared facilities,
12    or  other  activities  or  expenditures in furtherance of the
13    purposes of this Act.  The  Commission  may  make  grants  to
14    neighborhood   organizations  within  the  District  for  the
15    purpose of benefitting the community.

16        Section 20.  Property; acquisition.   The  Commission  is
17    authorized  to  acquire the fee simple title to real property
18    lying within the District and personal property required  for
19    its purposes, by gift, purchase, or otherwise. Title shall be
20    taken in the corporate name of the Commission. The Commission
21    may  acquire  by  lease  any  real  property lying within the
22    District and personal property found by the Commission to  be
23    necessary  for its purposes and to which the Commission finds
24    that it need not acquire the fee simple  title  for  carrying
25    out  of those purposes. All real and personal property within
26    the  District,  except  that  owned  and  used  for  purposes
27    authorized under this Act by medical institutions  or  allied
28    educational  institutions,  hospitals, dispensaries, clinics,
29    dormitories or  homes  for  the  nurses,  doctors,  students,
30    instructors,   or   other  officers  or  employees  of  those
31    institutions located in the District, or  any  real  property
32    that  is  used  for  offices  or for recreational purposes in
33    connection  with  those   institutions,   or   any   improved
 
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 1    residential  property within a currently effective historical
 2    district properly designated under a  federal  statute  or  a
 3    State  or  local  statute  that  has  been  certified  by the
 4    Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury as
 5    containing  criteria  that  will  substantially  achieve  the
 6    purpose  of  preserving  and  rehabilitating   buildings   of
 7    historical  significance  to the district, may be acquired by
 8    the Commission in its corporate name under the provisions for
 9    the exercise of the right of eminent domain under Article VII
10    of the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure.  The  Commission  has  no
11    quick-take   powers,  no  zoning  powers,  and  no  power  to
12    establish or enforce building codes. The Commission  may  not
13    acquire  any  property  pursuant  to  this  Section  before a
14    comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 70.

15        Section 25.  Construction.  The Commission  may,  in  its
16    corporate  capacity,  construct  or  cause  to be constructed
17    within  the  District,   hospitals,   sanitariums,   clinics,
18    laboratories,   or   any   other  institution,  building,  or
19    structure or other ancillary or related facilities  that  the
20    Commission  may, from time to time, determine are established
21    and operated (i) for the carrying out of any  aspect  of  the
22    Commission's  purposes  as  set  forth  in  this Act, for the
23    study,  diagnosis,  and  treatment  of  human  ailments   and
24    injuries,  whether physical or mental, or to promote medical,
25    surgical, and scientific research and knowledge, for any uses
26    the Commission  shall  determine  will  support  and  nurture
27    facilities  and  uses  permitted  by  this  Act,  or for such
28    nursing, extended care, or other facilities as the Commission
29    shall find useful in the study of, research in, or  treatment
30    of  illnesses or infirmities peculiar to aged people, after a
31    public hearing to be held by any Commissioner or other person
32    authorized by the Commission to conduct  the  hearing,  which
33    Commissioner  or  other  person  has  the power to administer
 
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 1    oaths and affirmations and take the  testimony  of  witnesses
 2    and  receive such documentary evidence as shall be pertinent,
 3    the record of which hearing he or she shall  certify  to  the
 4    Commission,  which record shall become part of the records of
 5    the Commission, notice of the time, place, and purpose of the
 6    hearings to be given by a  single  publication  notice  in  a
 7    secular  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in  the City of
 8    Springfield at least 10 days before the date of the  hearing,
 9    or  (ii)  for  such  institutions  as  shall  engage  in  the
10    training,  education,  or  rehabilitation  of  persons who by
11    reason  of  illness  or  physical  infirmity  are  wholly  or
12    partially deprived of their powers of vision or hearing or of
13    the use of such other  part  or  parts  of  their  bodies  as
14    prevent  them  from  pursuing  normal activities of life, for
15    office  buildings  for  physicians  or  dealers  in   medical
16    accessories,  for  dormitories,  homes, or residences for the
17    medical profession, including interns, nurses,  students,  or
18    other  officers  or  employees of the institutions within the
19    District, for  the  use  of  relatives  of  patients  in  the
20    hospitals  or other institutions within the District, for the
21    rehabilitation or  establishment  of  residential  structures
22    within  a  historic  district  properly  designated  under  a
23    federal  statute  or  a  State or local statute that has been
24    certified by the Secretary of the Interior to  the  Secretary
25    of   the   Treasury   as   containing   criteria   that  will
26    substantially  achieve  the   purpose   of   preserving   and
27    rehabilitating  buildings  of  historic  significance  to the
28    district,  or  such  other  areas  of  the  District  as  the
29    Commission shall designate, for  research,  development,  and
30    resultant  production  in  any  of  the  fields  of medicine,
31    chemistry,   pharmaceuticals,   physics,   and    genetically
32    engineered    products,    for   biotechnology,   information
33    technology, medical technology, or environmental  technology,
34    for  the  research  and  development  of  engineering, or for
 
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 1    computer technology related to any of the purposes for  which
 2    the  Commission  may  construct  structures  and improvements
 3    within the District. All  such  structures  and  improvements
 4    shall  be  erected  and  constructed  in  accordance with the
 5    provisions of the Illinois Procurement  Code  that  apply  to
 6    State agencies. No construction may be undertaken pursuant to
 7    this  Section  before  a  comprehensive  master plan has been
 8    approved under Section 70.

 9        Section 30.  Relocation assistance.  The Commission shall
10    provide  relocation  assistance  to  persons   and   entities
11    displaced  by  the  Commission's  acquisition of property and
12    improvement of the District. Relocation assistance shall  not
13    be  less  than  provided under the federal Uniform Relocation
14    Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970
15    and the regulations under that Act, including the eligibility
16    criteria.  Relocation assistance may include assistance  with
17    the  moving  of  a  residential  unit to a new location.  The
18    Commission shall establish a single point of contact for  all
19    relocation assistance under this Section.

20        Section  35.  Bonds.  To  obtain  the funds necessary for
21    financing the  acquisition  of  land,  for  the  acquisition,
22    construction,  maintenance,  and rehabilitation of facilities
23    and equipment within the District, and for the  operation  of
24    the  District  as  set  forth in this Act, the Commission may
25    borrow money from any public or private  agency,  department,
26    corporation,  or  person.  In evidence of and as security for
27    funds borrowed, the Commission may issue revenue bonds in its
28    corporate capacity to be payable from  the  revenues  derived
29    from  the  operation  of the institutions or buildings owned,
30    leased, or operated by or on behalf of  the  Commission,  but
31    the bonds shall in no event constitute an indebtedness of the
32    Commission or a claim against the property of the Commission.
 
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 1    The  bonds  may  be  issued  in  such denominations as may be
 2    expedient, in such amounts, and at such rates of interest  as
 3    the  Commission  shall  deem  necessary to provide sufficient
 4    funds to pay all the costs authorized under this Section. The
 5    bonds shall be executed by the President of  the  Commission,
 6    attested  by  the Secretary, and sealed with the Commission's
 7    corporate seal. If either of those officers of the Commission
 8    who shall have signed or attested any of the bonds shall have
 9    ceased to be such officer before delivery of the  bonds,  the
10    signature of the officer shall be valid and sufficient to the
11    same  effect  as if the officer had remained in office at the
12    time of delivery. The  Commission  shall  furnish  the  State
13    Comptroller with a record of all bonds issued under this Act.

14        Section  40.  Power to sell or lease.  The Commission may
15    sell, convey, transfer, or lease, all at fair  market  value,
16    any  title  or  interest  in real property owned by it to any
17    person or persons, to be used, subject to the restrictions of
18    this Act, for the purposes stated in Section 25, or  for  the
19    purpose  of  serving  persons  using  the  facilities offered
20    within the District or for carrying out of any aspect of  the
21    Commission's purposes as set forth in Section 10 of this Act,
22    subject  to  such  restrictions  as  to  the  use of the real
23    property as the Commission shall determine will carry out the
24    purpose of this Act. To assure  that  the  use  of  the  real
25    property  so  sold  or  leased  is  in  accordance  with  the
26    provisions of this Act, the Commission shall inquire into and
27    satisfy  itself  concerning  the  financial  ability  of  the
28    purchaser to complete the project for which the real property
29    is  sold  or leased in accordance with a plan to be presented
30    by the purchaser or lessee, which plan shall be submitted, in
31    writing, to the Commission. Under the plan, the purchaser  or
32    lessee  shall  undertake (1) to use the land for the purposes
33    designated in the plan so  presented;  (2)  to  commence  and
 
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 1    complete   the   construction   of  the  buildings  or  other
 2    structures to be included in the project within such  periods
 3    of  time  as  the  Commission fixes as reasonable; and (3) to
 4    comply with such other conditions  as  the  Commission  shall
 5    determine  are  necessary  to  carry  out  the  project.  All
 6    conveyances and leases authorized in this Section shall be on
 7    condition  that,  in  the  event  of  use  for other than the
 8    purposes prescribed in this Act, or of nonuse for a period of
 9    one  year,  title  to  the  property  shall  revert  to   the
10    Commission. All conveyances and leases made by the Commission
11    to  any  corporation  or  person  for  the use of serving the
12    residents or any person using the facilities  offered  within
13    the  District  shall  be  on  condition  that in the event of
14    violation of any of the restrictions as to  the  use  of  the
15    property  as  the Commission shall have determined will carry
16    out the purposes of this Act,  that  title  to  the  property
17    shall  revert to the Commission.  If, however, the Commission
18    finds that financing necessary for the acquisition  or  lease
19    of any real estate or for the construction of any building or
20    improvement  to  be  used for purposes prescribed in this Act
21    cannot be obtained if  title  to  the  land  or  building  or
22    improvement  is  subject  to such a reverter provision, which
23    finding shall be made by the Commission after public  hearing
24    held  pursuant  to  a  single  publication  notice given in a
25    secular newspaper of  general  circulation  in  the  City  of
26    Springfield  at least 10 days before the date of the hearing,
27    the notice to specify the time, place, and  purpose  for  the
28    hearing, and upon that finding being made, the Commission may
29    cause  the  real  property  to be conveyed free of a reverter
30    provision,  provided  that  at  least  10  members   of   the
31    Commission  vote  in  favor  thereof. The Commission may also
32    provide in the conveyances, leases,  or  other  documentation
33    provisions  for  notice of such violations or default and the
34    cure thereof for the benefit of any lender  or  mortgagee  as
 
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 1    the  Commission  shall  determine  are  appropriate. If, at a
 2    regularly scheduled meeting, the Commission resolves  that  a
 3    parcel  of  real estate leased by it, or in which it has sold
 4    the fee simple title or any lesser estate, is not being  used
 5    for the purposes prescribed in this Act or has been in nonuse
 6    for  a period of one year, the Commission may file a law suit
 7    in the circuit court of Sangamon County to enforce the  terms
 8    of  the sale or lease. If a reverter of title to any property
 9    is ordered by the court under the  terms  of  this  Act,  the
10    interest  of  the  Commission  shall  be  subject to any then
11    existing valid mortgage or trust deed  in  the  nature  of  a
12    mortgage, but if the title is acquired through foreclosure of
13    that mortgage or trust deed or by deed in lieu of foreclosure
14    of  that  mortgage  or  trust  deed,  then  the  title to the
15    property shall not  revert,  but  shall  be  subject  to  the
16    restrictions  as  to  use,  but  not  any penalty for nonuse,
17    contained in this  Act  with  respect  to  any  mortgagee  in
18    possession or its successor or assigns.
19        No  conveyance  of real property shall be executed by the
20    Commission  without  the  prior  written  approval   of   the
21    Governor.  The  Commission may not sell, convey, transfer, or
22    lease  any  property  pursuant  to  this  Section  before   a
23    comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 70.

24        Section  45.  Notice.   Before holding any public hearing
25    prescribed  in  Section  40  of  this  Act,  or  any  meeting
26    regarding the passage of any resolution to file a  law  suit,
27    the Commission shall give notice to the grantee or lessee, or
28    his  or her legal representatives, successors, or assigns, of
29    the time and place of the proceeding.  The  notice  shall  be
30    accompanied  by  a  statement  signed by the Secretary of the
31    Commission, or by any person authorized by the Commission  to
32    sign  the  same,  setting  forth  any  act  or things done or
33    omitted to  be  done  in  violation,  or  claimed  to  be  in
 
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 1    violation,  of any restriction as to the use of the property,
 2    whether the restriction be prescribed in any of the terms  of
 3    this  Act or by any restriction as to the use of the property
 4    determined by the Commission under the terms of this Act. The
 5    notice of the time and place fixed for the  proceeding  shall
 6    also  be  given  to  such person or persons as the Commission
 7    shall deem necessary. The notice may be given  by  registered
 8    mail,   addressed   to   the   grantee,   lessee,   or  legal
 9    representatives, successors, or assigns, at  the  last  known
10    address  of  the  grantee,  lessee, or legal representatives,
11    successors, or assigns.

12        Section 50.  Rules.  The Commission may adopt  reasonable
13    and   proper   rules,   in   accordance   with  the  Illinois
14    Administrative Procedure Act, relative to the exercise of its
15    powers, and  proper  rules  to  govern  its  proceedings,  to
16    regulate the mode and manner of all hearings held by it or at
17    its direction, and to alter and amend those rules.

18        Section  55.  Official documents.  Copies of all official
19    documents, findings, and orders of the Commission,  certified
20    by a Commissioner or by the Secretary of the Commission to be
21    true  copies of the originals, under the official seal of the
22    Commission,  shall  be  evidence  in  like  manner   as   the
23    originals.

24        Section  60.  Judicial  review.   Any  party may obtain a
25    judicial  review  of  a  final  order  or  decision  of   the
26    Commission in the circuit court of Sangamon County only under
27    and  in  accordance with the provisions of the Administrative
28    Review Law and the rules adopted under that Law. The  circuit
29    court shall take judicial notice of all the rules of practice
30    and procedure of the Commission.
 
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 1        Section  65.  Parks.   The  Commission  may set apart any
 2    part of the District as a park,  except  those  areas  owned,
 3    operated,  or  used for purposes authorized under this Act by
 4    organizations or institutions  engaged  in  the  delivery  or
 5    conduct  of health care services, education, or research, and
 6    may construct, control, and maintain the same or may  provide
 7    by contract with the Springfield Park District or the City of
 8    Springfield for the construction, control, and maintenance of
 9    any area within the District set apart as a park.

10        Section  70.  Master  plan; improvement and management of
11    District.   The  Commission  shall  prepare  and  approve   a
12    comprehensive  master  plan  for  the orderly development and
13    management of all property within the  District.  The  master
14    plan,  and  any  amendment to the master plan, shall not take
15    effect, however, until it has been approved by  the  advisory
16    council  and  the  Springfield  city  council. The Commission
17    shall take the actions permitted to be taken by it under this
18    Act as it may determine are appropriate to provide conditions
19    most favorable for the special care and treatment of the sick
20    and injured and for the study of disease and  for  any  other
21    purpose  in  Section 25 of this Act.  In the master plan, the
22    Commission may provide for  shared  services  and  facilities
23    within  the  District  for the accredited schools of medicine
24    and the licensed non-profit acute care hospitals  within  the
25    District.

26        Section   75.  Advisory  Council.   The  Commission  must
27    establish   an   advisory    council    consisting    of    2
28    representatives, appointed for one-year terms by the Mayor of
29    Springfield,  of  each  recognized  neighborhood organization
30    that the Mayor determines has a legitimate  interest  in  the
31    development  and  improvement  of  the  District. There is no
32    limit on the number  of  terms  to  which  a  person  may  be
 
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 1    appointed  as a member. The advisory council shall review and
 2    make recommendations to the Commission with  respect  to  the
 3    comprehensive  master  plan  to be adopted by the Commission.
 4    The advisory council may fulfill such other  responsibilities
 5    as  the Commission may request in furtherance of the purposes
 6    of this Act.  The advisory council shall meet at the call  of
 7    the President of the Commission and shall conduct its affairs
 8    in  accordance  with  the rules that the Commission may adopt
 9    from time to time for the governance  and  operation  of  the
10    advisory council.

11        Section   80.  Public   hearing.   The  Commission  shall
12    conduct a public hearing prior to  either  acquiring  through
13    eminent  domain under Section 20 of this Act real or personal
14    property within the District or approving under Section 70 of
15    this Act a comprehensive master plan.  The  Commission  shall
16    also  conduct  a  public  hearing  whenever  it  is otherwise
17    required by law to do so, and may conduct  a  public  hearing
18    whenever it may elect to do so.
19        The Commission shall conduct the public hearing called by
20    it  in  accordance with the requirements of the law mandating
21    it, if any, or in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this
22    Section  if  either  the law mandating it is silent as to the
23    procedures for its holding or if  the  Commission  elects  to
24    hold a public hearing in the absence of any law mandating it.
25        In  the  absence  of any law, or of any procedures in any
26    law,  mandating  the  holding  of  a  public   hearing,   the
27    Commission  may  authorize  a Commissioner or other person of
28    legal age to conduct a hearing.  The  Commissioner  or  other
29    authorized  person  has  the  power  to  administer oaths and
30    affirmations, take  the  testimony  of  witnesses,  take  and
31    receive  the  production of papers, books, records, accounts,
32    and documents, receive pertinent evidence,  and  certify  the
33    record  of  the  hearing.   The  record  of the hearing shall
 
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 1    become part of the Commission's record.  Notice of the  time,
 2    place,  and purpose of the hearing shall be given by a single
 3    publication  notice  in  a  secular  newspaper   of   general
 4    circulation  in  the  City  of  Springfield  at least 10 days
 5    before the date of the hearing.

 6        Section  85.  Jurisdiction.   This  Act  shall   not   be
 7    construed   to   limit   the  jurisdiction  of  the  City  of
 8    Springfield to territory outside the limits of  the  District
 9    nor to impair any power now possessed by or hereafter granted
10    to  the  City of Springfield or to cities generally. Property
11    owned by and exclusively used  by  the  Commission  shall  be
12    exempt  from taxation and shall be subject to condemnation by
13    the State and any municipal  corporation  or  agency  of  the
14    State for any State or municipal purpose under the provisions
15    for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under Article
16    VII of the Code of Civil Procedure.

17        Section 90.  Disposition of money; income fund. All money
18    received  by  the  Commission  from  the sale or lease of any
19    property, in excess of the amount expended by the  Commission
20    for authorized purposes under this Act or as may be necessary
21    to satisfy the obligation of any revenue bond issued pursuant
22    to  Section  35,  shall  be  paid into the State treasury for
23    deposit into the Illinois  Medical  District  at  Springfield
24    Income  Fund.   The Commission is authorized to use all money
25    received  as  rentals   for   the   purposes   of   planning,
26    acquisition, and development of property within the District,
27    for  the  operation, maintenance, and improvement of property
28    of the Commission, and for all purposes and powers set  forth
29    in this Act.   All moneys held pursuant to this Section shall
30    be   maintained   in  a  depository  approved  by  the  State
31    Treasurer. The Auditor General shall,  at  least  biennially,
32    audit  or cause to be audited all records and accounts of the
 
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 1    Commission pertaining to the operation of the District.

 2        Section 95.  Attorney General.  The Attorney  General  of
 3    the  State of Illinois is the legal advisor to the Commission
 4    and shall prosecute or  defend,  as  the  case  may  be,  all
 5    actions brought by or against the Commission.

 6        Section  900.  The State Finance Act is amended by adding
 7    Sections 5.570 and 6z-56 as follows:

 8        (30 ILCS 105/5.570 new)
 9        Sec. 5.570.  The Illinois Medical District at Springfield
10    Income Fund.

11        (30 ILCS 105/6z-56 new)
12        Sec. 6z-56.  Illinois  Medical  District  at  Springfield
13    Income Fund.  All payments received from the Illinois Medical
14    District  at  Springfield  Commission  for  deposit  into the
15    Illinois Medical District at Springfield Income Fund shall be
16    expended only pursuant to appropriation.  Amounts in the Fund
17    may be appropriated to the Commission for use  in  purchasing
18    real estate.

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