Rep. Michael D. Unes

Filed: 3/29/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1915

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1915 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The General Not For Profit Corporation Act of
51986 is amended by changing Section 103.05 as follows:
 
6    (805 ILCS 105/103.05)  (from Ch. 32, par. 103.05)
7    Sec. 103.05. Purposes and authority of corporations;
8particular purposes; exemptions.
9    (a) Not-for-profit corporations may be organized under
10this Act for any one or more of the following or similar
11purposes:
12        (1) Charitable.
13        (2) Benevolent.
14        (3) Eleemosynary.
15        (4) Educational.
16        (5) Civic.

 

 

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1        (6) Patriotic.
2        (7) Political.
3        (8) Religious.
4        (9) Social.
5        (10) Literary.
6        (11) Athletic.
7        (12) Scientific.
8        (13) Research.
9        (14) Agricultural.
10        (15) Horticultural.
11        (16) Soil improvement.
12        (17) Crop improvement.
13        (18) Livestock or poultry improvement.
14        (19) Professional, commercial, industrial, or trade
15    association.
16        (20) Promoting the development, establishment, or
17    expansion of industries.
18        (21) Electrification on a cooperative basis.
19        (22) Telephone service on a mutual or cooperative
20    basis.
21        (23) Ownership and operation of water supply
22    facilities for drinking and general domestic use on a
23    mutual or cooperative basis.
24        (24) Ownership or administration of residential
25    property on a cooperative basis.
26        (25) Administration and operation of property owned on

 

 

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1    a condominium basis or by a homeowner association.
2        (26) Administration and operation of an organization
3    on a cooperative basis producing or furnishing goods,
4    services, or facilities primarily for the benefit of its
5    members who are consumers of those goods, services, or
6    facilities.
7        (27) Operation of a community mental health board or
8    center organized pursuant to the Community Mental Health
9    Act for the purpose of providing direct patient services.
10        (28) Provision of debt management services as
11    authorized by the Debt Management Service Act.
12        (29) Promotion, operation, and administration of a
13    ridesharing arrangement as defined in Section 1-176.1 of
14    the Illinois Vehicle Code.
15        (30) The administration and operation of an
16    organization for the purpose of assisting low-income
17    consumers in the acquisition of utility and telephone
18    services.
19        (31) Any purpose permitted to be exempt from taxation
20    under Sections 501(c) or 501(d) of the United States
21    Internal Revenue Code, as now in or hereafter amended.
22        (32) Any purpose that would qualify for tax-deductible
23    gifts under the Section 170(c) of the United States
24    Internal Revenue Code, as now or hereafter amended. Any
25    such purpose is deemed to be charitable under subsection
26    (a)(1) of this Section.

 

 

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1        (33) Furnishing of natural gas on a cooperative basis.
2        (34) Ownership and operation of agriculture-based
3    biogas (anaerobic digester) systems on a cooperative basis
4    including the marketing and sale of products produced from
5    these, including but not limited to methane gas,
6    electricity, and compost.
7        (35) Ownership and operation of a medical practice as
8    part of a comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment
9    center, as authorized under Section 501(a)(2) of the Social
10    Security Act.
11    (b) A corporation may be organized hereunder to serve in an
12area that adjoins or borders (except for any intervening
13natural watercourse) an area located in an adjoining state
14intended to be similarly served, and the corporation may join
15any corporation created by the adjoining state having an
16identical purpose and organized as a not-for-profit
17corporation. Whenever any corporation organized under this Act
18so joins with a foreign corporation having an identical
19purpose, the corporation shall be permitted to do business in
20Illinois as one corporation; provided (1) that the name, bylaw
21provisions, officers, and directors of each corporation are
22identical, (2) that the foreign corporation complies with the
23provisions of this Act relating to the admission of foreign
24corporation, and (3) that the Illinois corporation files a
25statement with the Secretary of State indicating that it has
26joined with a foreign corporation setting forth the name

 

 

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1thereof and the state of its incorporation.
2(Source: P.A. 98-317, eff. 8-12-13.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".