(70 ILCS 925/25)
Sec. 25.
Construction.
The Commission may, in its corporate capacity,
construct or cause to be constructed within the District, hospitals,
sanitariums, clinics, laboratories, or any other institution, building, or
structure or other ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may,
from time to time, determine are established and operated (i) for the carrying
out of any aspect of the Commission's purposes as set forth in this Act, 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, 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 hearing, which Commissioner or other person has 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 or she shall certify to the Commission, which record shall
become part of the records of the Commission, notice of the time, place, and
purpose of the hearings to be given by a single publication notice in a
secular newspaper of general circulation in the City of Springfield at least
10 days before the date of the hearing, or (ii) 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, for office buildings for physicians or dealers in medical accessories,
for dormitories, homes, or residences for the medical profession, including
interns, nurses, students, or other officers or employees of the
institutions within the District, for the use of relatives of patients
in the hospitals or other institutions within the District, for the
rehabilitation or establishment of residential structures within
a 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
that will substantially achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating
buildings of historic significance to the district, 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, 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 provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code that apply to State
agencies.
No construction may be undertaken pursuant to this Section before a
comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 70.
(Source: P.A. 92-870, eff. 1-3-03.)
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