093_HB0925eng

 
HB0925 Engrossed                     LRB093 05480 NHT 05571 b

 1        AN ACT relating to higher education.

 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 1 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 305/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 22)
 7        Sec. 1.  Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees of  the
 8    University of Illinois shall be a body corporate and politic,
 9    and  by  that name and style shall have perpetual succession,
10    have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and  be
11    sued,  provided  that any suit against the Board based upon a
12    claim sounding in tort must be filed in the Court of  Claims,
13    to  plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold, and convey real
14    and personal property; to have and use a common seal, and  to
15    alter  the  same  at pleasure; to make and establish by-laws,
16    and to alter or repeal the same as they shall deem necessary,
17    for  the  management  or  government,  in  all  its   various
18    departments and relations, of the University of Illinois, for
19    the  organization and endowment of which provision is made by
20    this act.
21    (Source: P.A. 84-1236.)