(70 ILCS 930/20)
Sec. 20. Property; acquisition. The Commission is authorized to acquire
the fee simple title to real property lying within the District and personal
property required for its purposes, by gift, purchase, or otherwise. Title
shall be taken in the corporate name of the Commission. The Commission may
acquire by lease any real property located within the District and personal
property found by the Commission to be necessary for its purposes and to which
the Commission finds that it need not acquire the fee simple title for
carrying out of those purposes. All real and personal property within the
District, except that owned and used for purposes authorized under this Act by
medical institutions or allied educational institutions, hospitals,
dispensaries, clinics, dormitories or homes for the nurses, doctors, students,
instructors, or other officers or employees of those institutions
located in the District, or any real property that is used for offices or for
recreational purposes in connection with those institutions,
or any improved residential property within a currently effective historical
district properly designated under a federal statute or a State or local
statute that has been certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the
Secretary of the Treasury as containing criteria that will substantially
achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings of historical
significance to the district, may be acquired by the Commission in its
corporate name under the provisions for the exercise of the right of eminent
domain under the Eminent Domain Act. The Commission has no
quick-take powers, no zoning powers, and no power to establish or enforce
building codes.
The Commission may not acquire any property pursuant to this Section before a
comprehensive master plan has been approved under Section 65.
(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.) |