5 ILCS 315/5.1

(5 ILCS 315/5.1)

Sec. 5.1.

Dissolution of Illinois State Labor Relations Board and Illinois
Local Labor Relations Board; transfer and savings provisions.

(a) The Illinois State Labor Relations Board is dissolved.  The State Panel
of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, created by this amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly, shall succeed to all of the powers, duties, rights, and
property, including contractual rights and obligations, of the Illinois State
Labor Relations Board.  Rules, procedures, and
decisions of the Illinois State Labor Relations Board in effect at the time of
its dissolution shall be deemed to be those of the State Panel of the Illinois
Labor Relations Board.  Matters pending before the Illinois State Labor
Relations Board at the time of its dissolution shall continue as matters
before the State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board.
The State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board shall be deemed successor
in interest to the Illinois State Labor Relations Board for the purposes of any
pending litigation.

(b) The Illinois Local Labor Relations Board is dissolved.  The Local Panel
of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, created by this amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly, shall succeed to all of the powers, duties, rights, and
property, including contractual rights and obligations, of the Illinois Local
Labor Relations Board.  Rules, procedures, and
decisions of the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board in effect at the time of
its dissolution shall be deemed to be those of the Local Panel of the Illinois
Labor Relations Board.  Matters pending before the Illinois Local Labor
Relations Board at the time of its dissolution shall continue as matters
before the Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board.
The Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board shall be deemed successor
in interest to the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board for the purposes of any
pending litigation.

(c) Rules and procedures adopted jointly by the Illinois State Labor
Relations Board and the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board that are in effect
at the time of the dissolution of those Boards shall be deemed to have been
adopted jointly by the State and Local Panels of the Illinois Labor Relations
Board.

(d) Fiscal Year 2000 appropriations to the Illinois State Labor Relations
Board and the Illinois Local Labor Relations Board may be expended by the
Illinois Labor Relations Board.

(e) Persons employed by the Illinois State Labor Relations Board or the
Illinois Local Labor Relations Board on the date of the dissolution of those
Boards shall thereupon become employees, respectively, of the State Panel or
the Local Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, without loss of
seniority or accrued benefits.

(Source: P.A. 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)