Public Act 90-0284 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0284
SB770 Enrolled LRB9003248THpk
AN ACT to amend the Northern Illinois University Law by
changing Section 30-45.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Northern Illinois University Law is
amended by changing Section 30-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 685/30-45)
Sec. 30-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall
have power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Northern Illinois University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
President of Northern Illinois University, and all necessary
deans, professors, associate professors, assistant
professors, instructors, other educational and administrative
assistants, and all other necessary employees, and to
prescribe their duties and contract with them upon matters
relating to tenure, salaries and retirement benefits in
accordance with the State Universities Civil Service Act.
Whenever the Board establishes a search committee to fill the
position of President of Northern Illinois University, there
shall be minority representation, including women, on that
search committee. The Board shall, upon the written request
of an employee of Northern Illinois University, withhold from
the compensation of that employee any dues, payments or
contributions payable by such employee to any labor
organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to
the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
to the specified labor organization within 10 working days
from the time of the withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed,
and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northern Illinois
University;
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Northern Illinois University, and confer
such professional and literary degrees as are usually
conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
appropriate;
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Northern Illinois University, to provide
the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare
fees; laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and
materials. The expense of the building, improving, repairing
and supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
and apparatus for conducting Northern Illinois University,
the reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the
salaries or compensation of the President, assistants, agents
and other employees of Northern Illinois University, shall be
a charge upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall
be chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate
the charges accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Northern Illinois University;
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or
departments in Northern Illinois University from any person
who may proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe
rules and regulations in relation to endowments and declare
on what general principles they may be accepted;
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Northern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
provide such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Northern Illinois University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of
the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Northern Illinois
University Police Department. Members of the Police
Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such
have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and
sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or
warrants of violations of State statutes, University rules
and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that
they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein
Northern Illinois University and any of its branches or
properties are located when such is required for the
protection of University properties and interests, and its
students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties,
when requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement
officials. However, such officers shall have no power to
serve and execute civil processes;
(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with
other institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase
or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve,
equip, complete, operate, control and manage research and
high technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of
Illinois, and (ii) the increased application and development
of technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of
the State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit
corporations all or any part of the land, buildings,
facilities, equipment or other property included in a
research and high technology park upon such terms and
conditions as the Board may deem advisable and enter into any
contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may
be necessary or suitable for the construction, financing,
operation and maintenance and management of any such park;
and may lease to any person, firm, partnership or
corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the
land, building, facilities, equipment or other property of
such park for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and
conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may finance
all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government
grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the
operation of such high technology park, rentals and similar
receipts; and may make its other facilities and services
available to tenants or other occupants of any such park at
rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
(13) To assist in the provision of buildings and
facilities beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of
university purposes, the Board of Trustees of Northern
Illinois University may exercise the following powers with
regard to the area located on or adjacent to the Northern
Illinois University DeKalb campus and bounded as follows:
Parcel 1:
In Township 40 North, Range 4 East, of the Third Prime
Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: The East
half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 17, the
Southwest Quarter of Section 16, and the Northwest
Quarter of Section 21, all in the County of DeKalb,
Illinois.
Parcel 2:
In Township 40 North, Range 4 East, of the Third Prime
Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: On the
North, by a line beginning at the Northwest corner of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence East 1,903.3
feet; thence South to the North line of the Southeast
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence
East along said line to North First Street; on the West
by Garden Road between Lucinda Avenue and the North
boundary; thence on the South by Lucinda Avenue between
Garden Road and the intersection of Lucinda Avenue and
the South Branch of the Kishwaukee River, and by the
South Branch of the Kishwaukee River between such
intersection and easterly to the intersection of such
river and North First Street; thence on the East by North
First Street.
(a) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
facilities by purchase, including installments payable over a
period allowed by law, by lease over a term of such duration
as the Board of Trustees shall determine, or by exercise of
the power of eminent domain;
(b) Sublease or contract to purchase through
installments all or any portion of buildings or facilities
for such duration and on such terms as the Board of Trustees
shall determine, including a term that exceeds 5 years,
provided that each such lease or purchase contract shall be
and shall recite that it is subject to termination and
cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly fails
to make an appropriation to pay the rent or purchase
installments payable under the terms of such lease or
purchase contracts; and
(c) Sell property without compliance with the State
Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the University
treasury in a special, separate development fund account
which the Auditor General shall examine to assure compliance
with this Act.
Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land
shall be buildings or facilities that, in the determination
of the Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for
use by the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the
interests of the University, including, by way of example,
residential, recreational, educational, and athletic
facilities for University staff and students and commercial
facilities which provide services needed by the University
community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
services associated with the planning and development of the
area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from
the General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to
an entity or person other than the University shall not be
subject to any limitations applicable to a State-supported
college or university under any law. All development on the
land and all the use of any buildings or facilities shall be
subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees
of Northern Illinois University.
(Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)