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92_HB2235

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning State employees.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Department  of  Agriculture  Law of the
 5    Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by  changing
 6    Section 205-435 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 205/205-435)
 8        Sec.  205-435.  Badges.  The  Director  must authorize to
 9    each Inspector of the Department and to any other employee of
10    the Department exercising the powers of  a  peace  officer  a
11    distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the
12    badge  is  authorized  by  the Department and (ii) contains a
13    unique  identifying  number.   No  other   badge   shall   be
14    authorized   by  the  Department.  Nothing  in  this  Section
15    prohibits  the  Director  from  issuing  shields   or   other
16    distinctive  identification  to  employees not exercising the
17    powers of a peace officer if the Director determines  that  a
18    shield   or  distinctive  identification  is  needed  by  the
19    employee to carry out his or her responsibilities.
20    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

21        Section 10.  The Department of Natural Resources  Act  is
22    amended by changing Section 1-30 as follows:

23        (20 ILCS 801/1-30)
24        Sec.  1-30.  Badges.  The Director must authorize to each
25    Conservation Police Officer and to any other employee of  the
26    Department  exercising  the  powers  of  a  peace  officer  a
27    distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the
28    badge  is  authorized  by  the Department and (ii) contains a
29    unique identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized
 
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 1    by the Department. Nothing  in  this  Section  prohibits  the
 2    Director   from   issuing   shields   or   other  distinctive
 3    identification to employees not exercising the  powers  of  a
 4    peace  officer  if  the  Director determines that a shield or
 5    distinctive identification is needed by the employee to carry
 6    out his or her responsibilities.
 7    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

 8        Section 15.  The Department  of  Human  Services  Act  is
 9    amended by changing Section 1-30 as follows:

10        (20 ILCS 1305/1-30)
11        Sec.  1-30.  Badges. The Secretary must authorize to each
12    employee of the Department exercising the powers of  a  peace
13    officer  a  distinct  badge  that,  on  its face, (i) clearly
14    states that the badge is authorized  by  the  Department  and
15    (ii)  contains  a  unique  identifying number. No other badge
16    shall be  authorized  by  the  Department.  Nothing  in  this
17    Section prohibits the Secretary from issuing shields or other
18    distinctive  identification  to  employees not exercising the
19    powers of a peace officer if the Secretary determines that  a
20    shield   or  distinctive  identification  is  needed  by  the
21    employee to carry out his or her responsibilities.
22    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

23        Section 20.  The Peace Officer Fire Investigation Act  is
24    amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

25        (20 ILCS 2910/1) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 501)
26        Sec. 1.  Peace Officer Status.
27        (a)  Any  person  who  is a sworn member of any organized
28    and paid fire department of a political subdivision  of  this
29    State  and  is  authorized to investigate fires or explosions
30    for such political subdivision, or who  is  employed  by  the
 
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 1    Office  of  the  State  Fire  Marshal to determine the cause,
 2    origin and circumstances of such fires or explosions that are
 3    suspected  to  be  arson  or  arson-related  crimes,  may  be
 4    classified as a peace officer by the political subdivision or
 5    agency employing such person. A person  so  classified  shall
 6    possess the same powers of arrest, search and seizure and the
 7    securing and service of warrants as sheriffs of counties, and
 8    police  officers  within  the jurisdiction of their political
 9    subdivision. While in the actual  investigation  and  matters
10    incident  thereto,  such  person  may carry weapons as may be
11    necessary,  but  only  if  that  person  has   satisfactorily
12    completed  (1)  a training program offered or approved by the
13    Illinois  Law  Enforcement  Training  Standards  Board  which
14    substantially conforms to standards promulgated  pursuant  to
15    the  Illinois  Police Training Act and "An Act in relation to
16    firearms training for peace officers",  approved  August  29,
17    1975,  as  amended; or in the case of employees of the Office
18    of the State Fire Marshal, a training course approved by  the
19    Department  of State Police which also substantially conforms
20    to standards promulgated pursuant to "An Act in  relation  to
21    firearms  training  for  peace officers", approved August 29,
22    1975, as  amended;  and  (2)  a  course  in  fire  and  arson
23    investigation  approved  by  the  Office  of  the  State Fire
24    Marshal pursuant to the  Illinois  Fire  Protection  Training
25    Act.   Such training need not include exposure to vehicle and
26    traffic law, traffic control and accident  investigation,  or
27    first  aid, but shall include training in the law relating to
28    the rights of persons suspected of  involvement  in  criminal
29    activities.
30        Any  person granted the powers enumerated in this Section
31    may exercise such powers only during the actual investigation
32    of the cause, origin  and  circumstances  of  such  fires  or
33    explosions  that  are  suspected to be arson or arson-related
34    crimes.
 
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 1        (b)  The  State  Fire  Marshal  must  authorize  to  each
 2    employee of the Office of  the  State  Fire  Marshal  who  is
 3    exercising  the  powers  of  a peace officer a distinct badge
 4    that, on its face, (i)  clearly  states  that  the  badge  is
 5    authorized  by  the Office of the State Fire Marshal and (ii)
 6    contains a unique identifying number.  No other  badge  shall
 7    be  authorized  by  the  Office  of  the  State Fire Marshal.
 8    Nothing in this subsection prohibits the State  Fire  Marshal
 9    from  issuing  shields or other distinctive identification to
10    employees not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the
11    State Fire Marshal determines that a  shield  or  distinctive
12    identification  is needed by the employee to carry out his or
13    her responsibilities.
14    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

15        Section 25.  The University of Illinois Act is amended by
16    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
22    instructors,  and to establish and provide for the management
23    of such model farms, model art,  and  other  departments  and
24    professorships,  as  may  be  required  to teach, in the most
25    thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related  to
26    agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  and military tactics,
27    without excluding other scientific and classical studies. The
28    trustees shall, upon  the  written  request  of  an  employee
29    withhold  from  the  compensation  of that employee any dues,
30    payments or contributions payable by  such  employee  to  any
31    labor  organization  as  defined  in the Illinois Educational
32    Labor Relations Act.  Under such arrangement, an amount shall
 
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 1    be withheld from each regular payroll period which  is  equal
 2    to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
 3    contributions,   and   the   trustees   shall  transmit  such
 4    withholdings to the specified labor  organization  within  10
 5    working  days  from  the  time  of the withholding.  They may
 6    accept  the  endowments  and  voluntary   professorships   or
 7    departments  in the University, from any person or persons or
 8    corporations who may offer the  same,  and,  at  any  regular
 9    meeting  of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in
10    relation to such  endowments  and  declare  on  what  general
11    principles  they may be admitted: Provided, that such special
12    voluntary  endowments  or   professorships   shall   not   be
13    incompatible  with  the  true  design and scope of the act of
14    congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall  at
15    any  time  be allowed to remain in or about the University in
16    idleness, or without full mental  or  industrial  occupation:
17    And  provided  further, that the trustees, in the exercise of
18    any of the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
19    liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
20    of the treasurer of the University at the  time  of  creating
21    such  liability  or  indebtedness, and which may be specially
22    and properly applied to the payment of the same. Any lease to
23    the trustees of lands, buildings  or  facilities  which  will
24    support  scientific research and development in such areas as
25    high   technology,   super    computing,    microelectronics,
26    biotechnology, robotics, physics and engineering shall be for
27    a  term not to exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees
28    the option to purchase the lands,  buildings  or  facilities.
29    The  lease shall recite that it is subject to termination and
30    cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly fails
31    to make an appropriation to pay the rent  payable  under  the
32    terms of the lease.
33        Leases  for  the  purposes  described  herein exceeding 5
34    years shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
 
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 1    Education.
 2        The Board of Trustees may,  directly  or  in  cooperation
 3    with  other  institutions  of  higher  education,  acquire by
 4    purchase or  lease  or  otherwise,  and  construct,  enlarge,
 5    improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage medical
 6    research   and  high  technology  parks,  together  with  the
 7    necessary  lands,  buildings,   facilities,   equipment   and
 8    personal  property  therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a)
 9    the location and development of business and industry in  the
10    State  of  Illinois,  and  (b)  the increased application and
11    development  of  technology  and  (c)  the  improvement   and
12    development of the State's economy. The Board of Trustees may
13    lease  to nonprofit corporations all or any part of the land,
14    buildings, facilities, equipment or other  property  included
15    in  a  medical  research  and  high technology park upon such
16    terms and conditions as the University of Illinois  may  deem
17    advisable  and enter into any contract or agreement with such
18    nonprofit corporations as may be necessary  or  suitable  for
19    the  construction,  financing,  operation and maintenance and
20    management of any such park; and may  lease  to  any  person,
21    firm,  partnership  or corporation, either public or private,
22    any part or all of the land, building, facilities,  equipment
23    or  other  property  of  such park for such purposes and upon
24    such rentals, terms and conditions as the University may deem
25    advisable; and may finance all or part of  the  cost  of  any
26    such  park,  including  the  purchase,  lease,  construction,
27    reconstruction,  improvement,  remodeling,  addition  to, and
28    extension and  maintenance  of  all  or  part  of  such  high
29    technology  park,  and  all  equipment  and  furnishings,  by
30    legislative  appropriations,  government  grants,  contracts,
31    private  gifts,  loans,  receipts  from the operation of such
32    high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;  and  may
33    make  its  other facilities and services available to tenants
34    or other occupants of  any  such  park  at  rates  which  are
 
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 1    reasonable and appropriate.
 2        The  Trustees  shall  have  power  (a)  to  purchase real
 3    property and easements, and (b) to acquire real property  and
 4    easements  in  the manner provided by law for the exercise of
 5    the right of eminent domain, and in  the  event  negotiations
 6    for  the acquisition of real property or easements for making
 7    any improvement which the Trustees  are  authorized  to  make
 8    shall have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
 9    resolution  adopted  a  schedule or plan of operation for the
10    execution of the project and therein made a finding  that  it
11    is  necessary  to take such property or easements immediately
12    or at some specified later date in order to comply  with  the
13    schedule, the Trustees may acquire such property or easements
14    in  the  same manner provided in Sections 7-103 through 7-112
15    of the Code of Civil Procedure.
16        The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
17    the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
18    the Board are located to pay for  services  rendered  by  the
19    various  taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and
20    to pay annually for  services  rendered  thereafter  by  such
21    district  such  sums  as  may be determined by the Board upon
22    properties used solely for income producing  purposes,  title
23    to  which  is held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties
24    leased to members of the staff of the University of Illinois,
25    title to which is held in trust for said  Board  of  Trustees
26    and  upon  properties leased to for-profit entities the title
27    to which properties is held  by  the  Board  of  Trustees.  A
28    certified  copy  of  any such agreement made with the State's
29    Attorney shall be filed with the County Clerk and  such  sums
30    shall  be  distributed  to the respective taxing districts by
31    the County Collector in such  proportions  that  each  taxing
32    district  will  receive  therefrom such proportion as the tax
33    rate of such taxing district bears to the total tax rate that
34    would be levied against such  properties  if  they  were  not
 
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 1    exempt from taxation under the Property Tax Code.
 2        The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the University of Illinois,
 3    subject to the applicable  civil  service  law,  may  appoint
 4    persons  to  be  members of the University of Illinois Police
 5    Department. Members of the Police Department shall  be  peace
 6    officers  and  as such have all powers possessed by policemen
 7    in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make  arrests
 8    on  view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city
 9    or county ordinances, except  that  they  may  exercise  such
10    powers only in counties wherein the University and any of its
11    branches  or properties are located when such is required for
12    the protection of university properties  and  interests,  and
13    its  students  and  personnel,  and  otherwise,  within  such
14    counties,  when  requested  by appropriate state or local law
15    enforcement officials; provided, however, that  such  officer
16    shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
17        The  Board  of  Trustees must authorize to each member of
18    the University of Illinois Police Department and to any other
19    employee of the University of Illinois exercising the  powers
20    of  a  peace  officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
21    clearly states that the badge is authorized by the University
22    of Illinois and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No
23    other  badge  shall  be  authorized  by  the  University   of
24    Illinois.  Nothing  in  this paragraph prohibits the Board of
25    Trustees  from   issuing   shields   or   other   distinctive
26    identification  to  employees  not exercising the powers of a
27    peace officer if the Board  of  Trustees  determines  that  a
28    shield   or  distinctive  identification  is  needed  by  the
29    employee to carry out his or her responsibilities.
30        The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by  or
31    through  the  College  of  Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
32    community network established under subsection (r) of Section
33    5-16.3 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
34        The powers of  the  trustees  as  herein  designated  are
 
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 1    subject  to  the  provisions  of  "An Act creating a Board of
 2    Higher Education, defining its powers and duties,  making  an
 3    appropriation  therefor,  and repealing an Act herein named",
 4    approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
 5        The Board of Trustees shall have the authority  to  adopt
 6    all  administrative  rules  which  may  be  necessary for the
 7    effective administration, enforcement and regulation  of  all
 8    matters   for   which   the   Board   has   jurisdiction   or
 9    responsibility.
10        (b)  To   assist   in  the  provision  of  buildings  and
11    facilities  beneficial  to,  useful  for,  or  supportive  of
12    University purposes, the Board of Trustees of the  University
13    of  Illinois may exercise the following powers with regard to
14    the area located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois
15    at Chicago campus and bounded as  follows:  on  the  West  by
16    Morgan Street; on the North by Roosevelt Road; on the East by
17    Union Street; and on the South by 16th Street, in the City of
18    Chicago:
19             (1)  Acquire  any  interests  in land, buildings, or
20        facilities by purchase,  including  installments  payable
21        over  a  period  allowed  by law, by lease over a term of
22        such duration as the Board of Trustees  shall  determine,
23        or by exercise of the power of eminent domain;
24             (2)  Sub-lease   or  contract  to  purchase  through
25        installments  all  or  any  portion   of   buildings   or
26        facilities  for  such  duration  and on such terms as the
27        Board of Trustees shall determine, including a term  that
28        exceeds  5  years,  provided  that  each  such  lease  or
29        purchase  contract  shall  be and shall recite that it is
30        subject to termination and cancellation in any  year  for
31        which the General Assembly fails to make an appropriation
32        to  pay  the  rent or purchase installments payable under
33        the terms of such lease or purchase contract; and
34             (3)  Sell property without compliance with the State
 
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 1        Property  Control  Act  and  retain   proceeds   in   the
 2        University  Treasury  in  a special, separate development
 3        fund account which the Auditor General shall  examine  to
 4        assure compliance with this Act.
 5    Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall
 6    be  buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
 7    Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are  for  use  by
 8    the  University;  or  (ii) otherwise advance the interests of
 9    the University, including, by  way  of  example,  residential
10    facilities  for  University staff and students and commercial
11    facilities which provide services needed  by  the  University
12    community.  Revenues from the development fund account may be
13    withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
14    the  processes  associated  with demolition; routine land and
15    property acquisition;  extension  of  utilities;  streetscape
16    work;   landscape   work;   surface  and  structure  parking;
17    sidewalks, recreational paths, and street  construction;  and
18    lease  and  lease  purchase arrangements and the professional
19    services associated with the planning and development of  the
20    area.   Moneys from the development fund account used for any
21    other purpose must be deposited into  and  appropriated  from
22    the  General Revenue Fund.  Buildings or facilities leased to
23    an entity or person other than the University  shall  not  be
24    subject  to  any  limitations applicable to a State supported
25    college or university under any law.  All development on  the
26    land  and  all  use  of  any buildings or facilities shall be
27    subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
28    (Source: P.A. 90-730, eff. 8-10-98; 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

29        Section 30.  The Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
30    changing Section 13-107 as follows:

31        (625 ILCS 5/13-107) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 13-107)
32        Sec. 13-107. Investigation of complaints against official
 
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 1    testing  stations. The Department shall, upon its own motion,
 2    or  upon  charges  made  in  writing  verified  under   oath,
 3    investigate  complaints  that  an official testing station is
 4    willfully falsifying records or tests, either for the purpose
 5    of selling parts or services not actually  required,  or  for
 6    the  purpose  of issuing a certificate of safety for a second
 7    division vehicle or medical transport vehicle that is not  in
 8    safe  mechanical  condition as determined by the standards of
 9    this Chapter in violation of the provisions of  this  Chapter
10    or of the rules and regulations issued by the Department.
11        The  Secretary of Transportation, for the purpose of more
12    effectively carrying out the provisions of  Chapter  13,  may
13    appoint such a number of inspectors as he may deem necessary.
14    Such  inspectors shall inspect and investigate applicants for
15    official testing station permits and investigate  and  report
16    violations.  With respect to enforcement of the provisions of
17    this Chapter 13, such inspectors shall have and may  exercise
18    throughout the State all the powers of police officers.
19        The Secretary must authorize to each inspector and to any
20    other  employee  of the Department exercising the powers of a
21    peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly
22    states that the badge is authorized  by  the  Department  and
23    (ii)  contains  a  unique identifying number.  No other badge
24    shall be  authorized  by  the  Department.  Nothing  in  this
25    Section prohibits the Secretary from issuing shields or other
26    distinctive  identification  to  employees not exercising the
27    powers of a peace officer if the Secretary determines that  a
28    shield   or  distinctive  identification  is  needed  by  the
29    employee to carry out his or her responsibilities.
30    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

31        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
32    becoming law.

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