Public Act 097-0825
 
SB3514 EnrolledLRB097 15727 CEL 60871 b


  
    AN ACT concerning government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
    Section 5. The Illinois Medical District Act is amended  by 
changing Sections 2, 4, 5, and 10 as follows:
 



    (70 ILCS 915/2)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5002)



    Sec. 2. Illinois Medical District Commission. 

    (a) There is hereby created a political subdivision, unit 
of local government, body politic and corporate under
the 
corporate name of Illinois Medical District Commission,

hereinafter called the
Commission, whose general purpose in 
addition to and not in limitation of
those purposes and powers 
set forth in other Sections of this Act shall be to:


        (1) maintain the proper surroundings for a medical 
    center and a related
technology center in order to attract, 
    stabilize, and retain therein
hospitals, clinics, research 
    facilities, educational facilities, or other
facilities 
    permitted under this Act;


        (2) provide for the orderly creation and expansion of 
    (i) various
county, and local governmental facilities as 
    permitted under this Act,
including, but not limited to, 
    juvenile detention facilities, (ii)
other ancillary or 
    related facilities which the Commission may from time to

    time determine are established and operated for any aspect 
    of the carrying
out of the Commission's purposes as set 
    forth in this Act, or are
established and operated 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 
    as permitted under this Act,
and (iii) medical research and 
    high technology parks, together with the
necessary lands, 
    buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property

    therefore, and (iv) other facility development to generate 
    and maintain revenue streams sufficient to fund the 
    operations of the Commission and for the District, and to 
    provide for any cash reserves as the Commission shall deem 
    prudent.

    (b) The Commission shall have perpetual succession, power

to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued in its 
corporate name, but judgment shall not in any case be issued 
against any property of the Commission 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 Chicago, and
the Commission may 
establish such other offices within the state of
Illinois at 
such places as to the Commission shall seem advisable. Such

Commission shall consist of 7 members, 4 of whom shall be 
appointed by the
Governor, 2 by the Mayor of Chicago, and one 
by the President of the County
Board of Cook County. All 
members shall hold office for a term of 5 years
and until their 
successors are appointed as provided in this
Act; provided, 
that as soon as possible after the effective date of this

amendatory Act, the Governor shall appoint 4 members for terms

expiring, respectively, on June 30, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955. 
The terms
of all members heretofore appointed by the Governor 
shall expire upon
the commencement of the terms of the members 
appointed pursuant to this
amendatory Act. Any vacancy in the 
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 person who had appointed the particular member,
and for 
the unexpired term of office of that particular member. A 
vacancy
caused by the expiration of the period for which the 
member was appointed
shall be filled by a new appointment for a 
term of 5 years from the date of
such expiration of the prior 5 
year term notwithstanding when such
appointment is actually 
made. The Commission shall obtain, pursuant to the
provisions 
of the Personnel Code, such personnel as to the Commission 
shall
seem advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act and 
the work of the
Commission.  The Commission may appoint a 
General Attorney and define the
duties of that General 
Attorney.

    The Commission shall hold regular meetings annually for the 
election
of a president, vice-president, secretary, and 
treasurer and for the
adoption of a budget. Special meetings 
may be called by the President or
by any 2 members. Each member 
shall take an oath of office for the
faithful performance of 
his duties. Four members of the Commission shall
constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business.

    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 the Legislative Research
Unit, as 
required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization 
Act,
and 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.

(Source: P.A. 89-356, eff. 8-17-95.)

 



    (70 ILCS 915/4)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5005)



    Sec. 4. 
The Commission may, in its corporate capacity, 
construct or cause
or permit to be constructed in such 
District, hospitals, sanitariums,
clinics, laboratories, or 
any other institution, building or structure or
other ancillary 
or related facilities which the Commission may, from time
to 
time, determine are established and operated for the carrying 
out of any
aspect of the Commission's purpose as set forth in 
this Act, or are
established and operated 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, or 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 same, which 
Commissioner or other person shall have 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 shall certify to the Commission, 
which record shall become
part of the records of the 
Commission, notice of the time, place, and
purpose of such 
hearings to be given by a single publication notice in a

secular newspaper of general circulation in the city of Chicago 
at least
ten days prior to the date of such hearing, or 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, or office buildings for physicians or 
dealers in medical accessories,
or dormitories, homes or 
residences for the medical profession, including
interns, 
nurses, students or other officers or employees of the

institutions within the District, or for the use of relatives 
of patients
in the hospitals or other institutions within the 
District, or for the
rehabilitation or establishment of 
residential structures within
a currently effective 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
which will substantially achieve the purpose of 
preserving
and rehabilitating buildings of historic 
significance to the district, or
in the area of such District 
located west of South Damen Avenue and north
of West Polk 
Street, commonly known as the Chicago Technology Park 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, or 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
Illinois 
Purchasing Act, to the same extent as if the Commission were a

Code Department. The Commission shall administer and exercise 
ultimate
authority with respect to the development and 
operation of the Chicago
Technology Park, and any extensions or 
expansion thereof.
In addition, the Commission may create a 
development area within the area of
the District located south 
of Roosevelt Road, called the District
Development Area in this 
Act.  Within the District Development Area the
Commission may

cause to be acquired or constructed commercial and other types 
of development,
public and private, if
the Commission 
determines that the commercial developments are ancillary to

and necessary for the support of facilities within the District 
and any
other purposes of the District, after a public hearing 
held by a commissioner
or the person authorized by the 
Commission to conduct the hearing.  The
Commissioner or other 
authorized persons shall have the power to administer
oaths and 
affirmations, take the testimony of witnesses, receive 
pertinent
evidence, and certify the record of the hearing to 
the Commission.  The
record of the hearing shall become part of 
the Commissions records.  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 the
City of 
Chicago at least 10 days before the date of the hearing.
In 
addition to
the powers set forth above, the Commission may 
sell, lease,
develop, operate, and manage for any person,
firm, 
partnership, or corporation, either public or private, all or 
any part of
the land, buildings, facilities, equipment, or 
other property included in the
District Development Area and 
any medical research and high technology
park or the designated 
commercial
development area upon the terms and conditions the

Commission may deem advisable, and may enter into any contract 
or agreement
with any person, firm, partnership, or 
corporation, either public or
private, or any combination of 
the foregoing, as may be necessary or
suitable for the 
creation, marketing, development,
construction, 
reconstruction, rehabilitation, financing, operation and

maintenance, and management of the District Development Area 
and any
technology
park or designated commercial development 
area; and may sell or lease
to any person, firm, partnership, 
or
corporation, either public or private, any part or all of 
the land,
building, facilities, equipment, or other property of 
the park or the
designated commercial development area upon the

rentals, terms, and conditions as the Commission may deem 
advisable; and
may finance all or part of the cost of the 
Commission's development and
operation of the District 
Development Area as well as any park or the
designated 
commercial
development area, including the creation, 
marketing,
development, purchase, lease, construction, 
reconstruction,
rehabilitation, improvement,
remodeling, 
addition to, extension, and maintenance of all or part of
the 
high technology park or the designated commercial development 
area, and all
equipment and furnishings, by legislative

appropriations, government grants, contracts, private gifts, 
loans,
bonds,
receipts from the sale or lease of land for the 
operation of the District and
any high
technology park or the 
designated commercial development area, rentals,
and similar 
receipts or other sources of revenue legally available for 
these
purposes.
The Commission shall promulgate rules 
concerning the procurement of contracts and purchases. The 
Commission also may defray the expenses of the operation of the 
District
Development Area and technology park, improvements to 
the District Development
Area and technology park, provision of 
shared services, common facilities and
common area expenses, 
benefiting owners and occupants of property within the
District 
Development Area and the technology park by general assessment,

special
assessment, or the imposition of service or user fees.  
As to the entities
eligible to be members of the advisory 
District Member Council,
such assessments or impositions may be 
undertaken only
with District Member Council
consent as 
provided in Section 8.
For a period of 6 years after July 1, 
1995, the Commission may
acquire any real and personal property 
within the Development Area of the
District by immediate 
vesting of title, commonly referred to as "quick-take",

pursuant to Sections 7-103 through 7-112 of the Code of Civil 
Procedure.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

 



    (70 ILCS 915/5)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5006)



    Sec. 5. 
To obtain the funds necessary for financing the 
acquisition
of land, the acquisition or construction of any 
building hereinabove
mentioned, and for the operation of the 
District as is in this Act set
forth, the Commission may borrow 
money from any public or private agency,
department, 
corporation
or person, and mortgage, pledge, or otherwise 
encumber the property or funds of the Commission. In
evidence 
of and as security for funds borrowed, the Commission may issue

revenue bonds in its corporate capacity to be payable from the

revenues derived from the operation of the institutions or 
buildings,
owned, leased, or operated by or on behalf of the 
Commission, but the
bonds shall in no event constitute an

indebtedness of the Commission or a claim against the property 
of the
Commission. Such bonds may be issued in such 
denominations as may be
expedient, and in such amounts and at 
such rates of interest as the
Commission shall deem necessary 
to provide sufficient funds to pay all
the costs of acquiring 
land, the construction, acquisition, equipping
and operation 
of buildings within the District district, including 
engineering
and other expenses. Such bonds shall be executed by 
the president of the
Commission, attested by the secretary 
thereof and sealed with the
Commission's corporate seal. In 
case either of said officers of the
Commission who shall have 
signed or attested any of such bonds shall
have ceased to be 
such officer before delivery of such bonds, the
signature of 
such officer shall be valid and sufficient to the same
effect 
as if such officer had remained in office at the time of such

delivery. The Commission shall furnish the State Comptroller

with a record of all bonds issued under this Act. 

(Source: P.A. 89-356, eff. 8-17-95.)

 



    (70 ILCS 915/10)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5020)



    Sec. 10. Disposition of money; income fund. The All money 
received by the
Commission from the sale or lease
of any 
property, in excess of such amount expended by the Commission 
for
authorized purposes under this Act or as may be necessary 
to satisfy
the obligation of any revenue bond issued pursuant 
to Section 5, shall
be paid into the State Treasury for deposit 
into the Medical Center Commission
Income Fund provided, 
however, the Commission is authorized to use all money received 
from the sale or lease of any property, in excess of the amount 
as may be necessary to satisfy the obligation of any revenue 
bond issued pursuant to Section 5 and may also use all
money 
received as rentals for the purposes of planning, acquisition, 
and
development of property within the District and operation, 
maintenance and
improvement of property of the Commission and 
for all purposes and powers set
forth in this Act.  Beginning in 
1993, not later than July 10 of each
year, the Commission shall 
transmit to the State Treasurer for deposit into
the Medical 
Center Commission Income Fund all monies on hand at June 30 in

excess of $350,000 without deduction or offset of any kind,

except that the
Commission may retain such additional funds as 
are necessary to pay
enforceable contractual obligations 
existing as of June 30 and which will
be paid not later than 
September 30 of that year.  All monies retained for
the payment 
of these obligations and not paid out by September 30, shall be

remitted in full to the State Treasury, without deduction or 
offset of
any kind, not later than October 10 of the same year.

All monies held pursuant to this Section shall be maintained in 
a
depository approved by the State Treasurer. The Commission 
shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the The 
Auditor General, who shall, at
least biennially, audit or cause 
to be audited all records and accounts of
the Commission 
pertaining to the operation of the District. The Auditor 
General shall provide the Commission and the General Assembly 
with the audits and shall post a copy on his or her website. 
The Auditor General shall submit a bill to the Commission for 
costs associated with the review and the audit required under 
this Section, and the Commission shall reimburse the Auditor 
General for such costs in a timely manner. 

(Source: P.A. 89-356, eff. 8-17-95.)


 

    (70 ILCS 915/5b rep.)

    Section 10. The Illinois Medical District Act is amended  by 
repealing Section 5b.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.