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90_SB0770
110 ILCS 685/30-45
Amends the Northern Illinois University Law. Makes a
change of grammar in the provisions relating to the powers
and duties of the University's Board of Trustees.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Northern Illinois University Law by
2 changing Section 30-45.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Northern Illinois University Law is
6 amended by changing Section 30-45 as follows:
7 (110 ILCS 685/30-45)
8 Sec. 30-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall
9 have power and it shall be its duty:
10 (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws that are, not
11 inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
12 Northern Illinois University and its branches;
13 (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
14 President of Northern Illinois University, and all necessary
15 deans, professors, associate professors, assistant
16 professors, instructors, other educational and administrative
17 assistants, and all other necessary employees, and to
18 prescribe their duties and contract with them concerning upon
19 matters relating to tenure, salaries and retirement benefits
20 in accordance with the State Universities Civil Service Act.
21 Whenever the Board establishes a search committee to fill the
22 position of President of Northern Illinois University, there
23 shall be minority representation, including women, on that
24 search committee. The Board shall, upon the written request
25 of an employee of Northern Illinois University, withhold from
26 the compensation of that employee any dues, payments or
27 contributions payable by such employee to any labor
28 organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
29 Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
30 withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to
31 the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
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1 contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
2 to the specified labor organization within 10 working days
3 from the time of the withholding;
4 (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed,
5 and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northern Illinois
6 University;
7 (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
8 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
9 required studies of Northern Illinois University, and confer
10 such professional and literary degrees as are usually
11 conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
12 or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
13 appropriate;
14 (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
15 administration of Northern Illinois University, to provide
16 the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
17 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
18 tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
19 facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
20 stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare
21 fees; laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and
22 materials. The expense of the building, improving, repairing
23 and supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
24 and apparatus for conducting Northern Illinois University,
25 the reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the
26 salaries or compensation of the President, assistants, agents
27 and other employees of Northern Illinois University, shall be
28 a charge upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall
29 be chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate
30 the charges accordingly;
31 (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
32 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
33 to Northern Illinois University;
34 (7) To accept endowments of professorships or
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1 departments in Northern Illinois University from any person
2 who may proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe
3 rules and regulations in relation to endowments and declare
4 on what general principles they may be accepted;
5 (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
6 for providing courses of instruction and other services at
7 Northern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
8 the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
9 provide such courses of instruction and other services;
10 (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
11 Center to obtain services related to electronic data
12 processing;
13 (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
14 Federal funds paid to Northern Illinois University by the
15 Federal government for instruction and other services for
16 persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of
17 the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
18 (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
19 law, persons to be members of the Northern Illinois
20 University Police Department. Members of the Police
21 Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such
22 have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and
23 sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or
24 warrants of violations of State statutes, University rules
25 and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that
26 they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein
27 Northern Illinois University and any of its branches or
28 properties are located when such is required for the
29 protection of University properties and interests, and its
30 students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties,
31 when requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement
32 officials. However, such officers shall have no power to
33 serve and execute civil processes;
34 (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with
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1 other institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase
2 or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve,
3 equip, complete, operate, control and manage research and
4 high technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
5 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
6 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
7 development of business and industry in the State of
8 Illinois, and (ii) the increased application and development
9 of technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of
10 the State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit
11 corporations all or any part of the land, buildings,
12 facilities, equipment or other property included in a
13 research and high technology park upon such terms and
14 conditions as the Board may deem advisable and enter into any
15 contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may
16 be necessary or suitable for the construction, financing,
17 operation and maintenance and management of any such park;
18 and may lease to any person, firm, partnership or
19 corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the
20 land, building, facilities, equipment or other property of
21 such park for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and
22 conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may finance
23 all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
24 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
25 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
26 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
27 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government
28 grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the
29 operation of such high technology park, rentals and similar
30 receipts; and may make its other facilities and services
31 available to tenants or other occupants of any such park at
32 rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
33 (Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)