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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1627
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1627 on page 6, by
3 replacing lines 9 through 20 with the following:
4 "Sec. 9.26. Matching Grants. To establish and
5 administer a program or programs of matching grants for use
6 by Illinois higher education institutions as incentives in
7 the competition for federal research grants and contracts.
8 Matching grants will be made to stimulate increased federal
9 and corporate research funds and to improve the research
10 capabilities of Illinois institutions of higher education.
11 The Board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may
12 be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Section.";
13 and
14 on page 7, by inserting below line 2 the following:
15 "Section 12. The University of Illinois Act is amended
16 by changing Section 7 as follows:
17 (110 ILCS 305/7) (from Ch. 144, par. 28)
18 Sec. 7. Powers of trustees.
19 (a) The trustees shall have power to provide for the
20 requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the
21 rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and
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1 instructors, and to establish and provide for the management
2 of such model farms, model art, and other departments and
3 professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most
4 thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to
5 agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics,
6 without excluding other scientific and classical studies. The
7 trustees shall, upon the written request of an employee
8 withhold from the compensation of that employee any dues,
9 payments or contributions payable by such employee to any
10 labor organization as defined in the Illinois Educational
11 Labor Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall
12 be withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal
13 to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
14 contributions, and the trustees shall transmit such
15 withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10
16 working days from the time of the withholding. They may
17 accept the endowments and voluntary professorships or
18 departments in the University, from any person or persons or
19 corporations who may offer the same, and, at any regular
20 meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in
21 relation to such endowments and declare on what general
22 principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such special
23 voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be
24 incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of
25 congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall at
26 any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in
27 idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation:
28 And provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of
29 any of the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
30 liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
31 of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating
32 such liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially
33 and properly applied to the payment of the same. Any lease to
34 the trustees of lands, buildings or facilities which will
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1 support scientific research and development in such areas as
2 high technology, super computing, microelectronics,
3 biotechnology, robotics, physics and engineering shall be for
4 a term not to exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees
5 the option to purchase the lands, buildings or facilities.
6 The lease shall recite that it is subject to termination and
7 cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly fails
8 to make an appropriation to pay the rent payable under the
9 terms of the lease.
10 Leases for the purposes described herein exceeding 5
11 years shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
12 Education.
13 The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation
14 with other institutions of higher education, acquire by
15 purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge,
16 improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage medical
17 research and high technology parks, together with the
18 necessary lands, buildings, facilities, equipment and
19 personal property therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a)
20 the location and development of business and industry in the
21 State of Illinois, and (b) the increased application and
22 development of technology and (c) the improvement and
23 development of the State's economy. The Board of Trustees may
24 lease to nonprofit corporations all or any part of the land,
25 buildings, facilities, equipment or other property included
26 in a medical research and high technology park upon such
27 terms and conditions as the University of Illinois may deem
28 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
29 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for
30 the construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
31 management of any such park; and may lease to any person,
32 firm, partnership or corporation, either public or private,
33 any part or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment
34 or other property of such park for such purposes and upon
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1 such rentals, terms and conditions as the University may deem
2 advisable; and may finance all or part of the cost of any
3 such park, including the purchase, lease, construction,
4 reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, addition to, and
5 extension and maintenance of all or part of such high
6 technology park, and all equipment and furnishings, by
7 legislative appropriations, government grants, contracts,
8 private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such
9 high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may
10 make its other facilities and services available to tenants
11 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
12 reasonable and appropriate.
13 The Trustees shall have power (a) to purchase real
14 property and easements, and (b) to acquire real property and
15 easements in the manner provided by law for the exercise of
16 the right of eminent domain, and in the event negotiations
17 for the acquisition of real property or easements for making
18 any improvement which the Trustees are authorized to make
19 shall have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
20 resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the
21 execution of the project and therein made a finding that it
22 is necessary to take such property or easements immediately
23 or at some specified later date in order to comply with the
24 schedule, the Trustees may acquire such property or easements
25 in the same manner provided in Sections 7-103 through 7-112
26 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
27 The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
28 the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
29 the Board are located to pay for services rendered by the
30 various taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and
31 to pay annually for services rendered thereafter by such
32 district such sums as may be determined by the Board upon
33 properties used solely for income producing purposes, title
34 to which is held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties
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1 leased to members of the staff of the University of Illinois,
2 title to which is held in trust for said Board of Trustees
3 and upon properties leased to for-profit entities the title
4 to which properties is held by the Board of Trustees. A
5 certified copy of any such agreement made with the State's
6 Attorney shall be filed with the County Clerk and such sums
7 shall be distributed to the respective taxing districts by
8 the County Collector in such proportions that each taxing
9 district will receive therefrom such proportion as the tax
10 rate of such taxing district bears to the total tax rate that
11 would be levied against such properties if they were not
12 exempt from taxation under the Property Tax Code.
13 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois,
14 subject to the applicable civil service law, may appoint
15 persons to be members of the University of Illinois Police
16 Department. Members of the Police Department shall be peace
17 officers and as such have all powers possessed by policemen
18 in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests
19 on view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city
20 or county ordinances, except that they may exercise such
21 powers only in counties wherein the University and any of its
22 branches or properties are located when such is required for
23 the protection of university properties and interests, and
24 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
25 counties, when requested by appropriate state or local law
26 enforcement officials; provided, however, that such officer
27 shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
28 The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by or
29 through the College of Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
30 community network established under subsection (r) of Section
31 5-16.3 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
32 The powers of the trustees as herein designated are
33 subject to the provisions of "An Act creating a Board of
34 Higher Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
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1 appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named",
2 approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
3 The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to adopt
4 all administrative rules which may be necessary for the
5 effective administration, enforcement and regulation of all
6 matters for which the Board has jurisdiction or
7 responsibility.
8 (b) To assist in the provision of buildings and
9 facilities beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of
10 University purposes, the Board of Trustees of the University
11 of Illinois may exercise the following powers with regard to
12 the area located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois
13 at Chicago campus and bounded as follows: on the West by
14 Morgan Street; thence on the North by Roosevelt Road; on the
15 East by Union Street; thence on the East by that portion of
16 Union Street between Roosevelt Road and Liberty Street;
17 thence West on Liberty Street to Halsted Street; thence South
18 on Halsted Street to 16th Street; and thence West on the
19 South by 16th Street to Morgan Street, in the City of
20 Chicago:
21 (1) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
22 facilities by purchase, including installments payable
23 over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of
24 such duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine,
25 or by exercise of the power of eminent domain;
26 (2) Sub-lease or contract to purchase through
27 installments all or any portion of buildings or
28 facilities for such duration and on such terms as the
29 Board of Trustees shall determine, including a term that
30 exceeds 5 years, provided that each such lease or
31 purchase contract shall be and shall recite that it is
32 subject to termination and cancellation in any year for
33 which the General Assembly fails to make an appropriation
34 to pay the rent or purchase installments payable under
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1 the terms of such lease or purchase contract; and
2 (3) Sell property without compliance with the State
3 Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the
4 University Treasury in a special, separate development
5 fund account which the Auditor General shall examine to
6 assure compliance with this Act.
7 Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall
8 be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
9 Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by
10 the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of
11 the University, including, by way of example, residential
12 facilities for University staff and students and commercial
13 facilities which provide services needed by the University
14 community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
15 withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
16 the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
17 property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
18 work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
19 sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
20 lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
21 services associated with the planning and development of the
22 area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
23 other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from
24 the General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to
25 an entity or person other than the University shall not be
26 subject to any limitations applicable to a State supported
27 college or university under any law. All development on the
28 land and all use of any buildings or facilities shall be
29 subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
30 (Source: P.A. 88-554, eff. 7-26-94; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94;
31 89-691, eff. 12-31-96.)".