Sen. William R. Haine

Filed: 3/2/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 642

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 642 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 305/7)  (from Ch. 144, par. 28)
7     Sec. 7. Powers of trustees.
8     (a) The trustees shall have power to provide for the
9 requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the
10 rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors,
11 and to establish and provide for the management of such model
12 farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as
13 may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such
14 branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the
15 mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other
16 scientific and classical studies. The trustees shall, upon the

 

 

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1 written request of an employee withhold from the compensation
2 of that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
3 such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
4 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
5 arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
6 payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
7 annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the
8 trustees shall transmit such withholdings to the specified
9 labor organization within 10 working days from the time of the
10 withholding. They may accept the endowments and voluntary
11 professorships or departments in the University, from any
12 person or persons or corporations who may offer the same, and,
13 at any regular meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and
14 regulations in relation to such endowments and declare on what
15 general principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such
16 special voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be
17 incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of
18 congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall at
19 any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in
20 idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation: And
21 provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of any of
22 the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
23 liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
24 of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating such
25 liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially and
26 properly applied to the payment of the same. Any lease to the

 

 

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1 trustees of lands, buildings or facilities which will support
2 scientific research and development in such areas as high
3 technology, super computing, microelectronics, biotechnology,
4 robotics, physics and engineering shall be for a term not to
5 exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees the option to
6 purchase the lands, buildings or facilities. The lease shall
7 recite that it is subject to termination and cancellation in
8 any year for which the General Assembly fails to make an
9 appropriation to pay the rent payable under the terms of the
10 lease.
11     Leases for the purposes described herein exceeding 5 years
12 shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
13 Education.
14     The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation with
15 other institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or
16 lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
17 complete, operate, control and manage medical research and high
18 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
19 buildings, facilities, equipment and personal property
20 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a) the location and
21 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
22 and (b) the increased application and development of technology
23 and (c) the improvement and development of the State's economy.
24 The Board of Trustees may lease to nonprofit corporations all
25 or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment or
26 other property included in a medical research and high

 

 

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1 technology park upon such terms and conditions as the
2 University of Illinois may deem advisable and enter into any
3 contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may
4 be necessary or suitable for the construction, financing,
5 operation and maintenance and management of any such park; and
6 may lease to any person, firm, partnership or corporation,
7 either public or private, any part or all of the land,
8 building, facilities, equipment or other property of such park
9 for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and conditions
10 as the University may deem advisable; and may finance all or
11 part of the cost of any such park, including the purchase,
12 lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement, remodeling,
13 addition to, and extension and maintenance of all or part of
14 such high technology park, and all equipment and furnishings,
15 by legislative appropriations, government grants, contracts,
16 private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such high
17 technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may make its
18 other facilities and services available to tenants or other
19 occupants of any such park at rates which are reasonable and
20 appropriate.
21     The Trustees shall have power (a) to purchase real property
22 and easements, and (b) to acquire real property and easements
23 in the manner provided by law for the exercise of the right of
24 eminent domain, and in the event negotiations for the
25 acquisition of real property or easements for making any
26 improvement which the Trustees are authorized to make shall

 

 

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1 have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
2 resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the
3 execution of the project and therein made a finding that it is
4 necessary to take such property or easements immediately or at
5 some specified later date in order to comply with the schedule,
6 the Trustees may acquire such property or easements in the same
7 manner provided in Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act
8 (quick-take procedure).
9     The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
10 the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
11 the Board are located to pay for services rendered by the
12 various taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and to
13 pay annually for services rendered thereafter by such district
14 such sums as may be determined by the Board upon properties
15 used solely for income producing purposes, title to which is
16 held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties leased to
17 members of the staff of the University of Illinois, title to
18 which is held in trust for said Board of Trustees and upon
19 properties leased to for-profit entities the title to which
20 properties is held by the Board of Trustees. A certified copy
21 of any such agreement made with the State's Attorney shall be
22 filed with the County Clerk and such sums shall be distributed
23 to the respective taxing districts by the County Collector in
24 such proportions that each taxing district will receive
25 therefrom such proportion as the tax rate of such taxing
26 district bears to the total tax rate that would be levied

 

 

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1 against such properties if they were not exempt from taxation
2 under the Property Tax Code.
3     The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois,
4 subject to the applicable civil service law, may appoint
5 persons to be members of the University of Illinois Police
6 Department. Members of the Police Department shall be peace
7 officers and as such have all powers possessed by policemen in
8 cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on
9 view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city or
10 county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
11 only in counties wherein the University and any of its branches
12 or properties are located when such is required for the
13 protection of university properties and interests, and its
14 students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties,
15 when requested by appropriate state or local law enforcement
16 officials; provided, however, that such officer shall have no
17 power to serve and execute civil processes.
18     The Board of Trustees must authorize to each member of the
19 University of Illinois Police Department and to any other
20 employee of the University of Illinois exercising the powers of
21 a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly
22 states that the badge is authorized by the University of
23 Illinois and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No
24 other badge shall be authorized by the University of Illinois.
25 Nothing in this paragraph prohibits the Board of Trustees from
26 issuing shields or other distinctive identification to

 

 

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1 employees not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the
2 Board of Trustees determines that a shield or distinctive
3 identification is needed by the employee to carry out his or
4 her responsibilities.
5     The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by or
6 through the College of Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
7 community network established under subsection (b) of Section
8 5-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
9     The powers of the trustees as herein designated are subject
10 to the provisions of "An Act creating a Board of Higher
11 Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
12 appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named",
13 approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
14     The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to adopt all
15 administrative rules which may be necessary for the effective
16 administration, enforcement and regulation of all matters for
17 which the Board has jurisdiction or responsibility.
18     (b) To assist in the provision of buildings and facilities
19 beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of University
20 purposes, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
21 may exercise the following powers with regard to the area
22 located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois at Chicago
23 campus and bounded as follows: on the West by Morgan Street; on
24 the North by Roosevelt Road; on the East by Union Street; and
25 on the South by 16th Street, in the City of Chicago:
26         (1) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or

 

 

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1     facilities by purchase, including installments payable
2     over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of such
3     duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine, or by
4     exercise of the power of eminent domain;
5         (2) Sub-lease or contract to purchase through
6     installments all or any portion of buildings or facilities
7     for such duration and on such terms as the Board of
8     Trustees shall determine, including a term that exceeds 5
9     years, provided that each such lease or purchase contract
10     shall be and shall recite that it is subject to termination
11     and cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly
12     fails to make an appropriation to pay the rent or purchase
13     installments payable under the terms of such lease or
14     purchase contract; and
15         (3) Sell property without compliance with the State
16     Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the University
17     Treasury in a special, separate development fund account
18     which the Auditor General shall examine to assure
19     compliance with this Act.
20 Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall
21 be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
22 Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by the
23 University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of the
24 University, including, by way of example, residential
25 facilities for University staff and students and commercial
26 facilities which provide services needed by the University

 

 

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1 community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
2 withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
3 the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
4 property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
5 work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
6 sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
7 lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
8 services associated with the planning and development of the
9 area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
10 other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from the
11 General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to an
12 entity or person other than the University shall not be subject
13 to any limitations applicable to a State supported college or
14 university under any law. All development on the land and all
15 use of any buildings or facilities shall be subject to the
16 control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
17     (c) The Board of Trustees shall have the power to borrow
18 money, as necessary, from time to time in anticipation of
19 receiving tuition, payments from the State of Illinois, or
20 other revenues or receipts of the University, also known as
21 anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be repaid
22 within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed and the
23 amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total amount of
24 payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but unpaid at the
25 Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the anticipated
26 borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied only for the

 

 

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1 purposes of paying salaries and other expenses lawfully
2 authorized in the university's State appropriation. No
3 borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
4 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
5 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
6 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
7 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
8 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
9 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial
10 institution.
11     The obligation to make the payments due under the
12 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
13 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
14 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
15 borrowing under this subsection (c) shall not constitute a
16 debt, legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
17 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
18 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
19 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
20 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
21 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
22 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
23 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
24 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
25 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
26 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may

 

 

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1 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
2 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
3 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
4 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
5 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
6 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
7 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
8 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
9 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
10     For the purposes of this subsection (c), "financial
11 institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
12 Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
13 Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
14 commercial bank or savings and loan association organized and
15 operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the United
16 States.
17 (Source: P.A. 93-423, eff. 8-5-03; 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
 
18     Section 10. The Southern Illinois University Management
19 Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
 
20     (110 ILCS 520/8)  (from Ch. 144, par. 658)
21     Sec. 8. Powers and Duties of the Board. The Board shall
22 have power and it shall be its duty:
23         1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not
24     inconsistent with law, for the government and management of

 

 

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1     Southern Illinois University and its branches;
2         2. To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
3     president of Southern Illinois University, and all
4     necessary deans, professors, associate professors,
5     assistant professors, instructors, and other educational
6     and administrative assistants, and all other necessary
7     employees, and contract with them upon matters relating to
8     tenure, salaries and retirement benefits in accordance
9     with the State Universities Civil Service Act; the Board
10     shall, upon the written request of an employee of Southern
11     Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of
12     that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable
13     by such employee to any labor organization as defined in
14     the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
15     arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
16     payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
17     annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the
18     Board shall transmit such withholdings to the specified
19     labor organization within 10 working days from the time of
20     the withholding. Whenever the Board establishes a search
21     committee to fill the position of president of Southern
22     Illinois University, there shall be minority
23     representation, including women, on that search committee;
24         3. To prescribe the course of study to be followed, and
25     textbooks and apparatus to be used at Southern Illinois
26     University;

 

 

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1         4. To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
2     diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed
3     the required studies of Southern Illinois University, and
4     confer such professional and literary degrees as are
5     usually conferred by other institutions of like character
6     for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the
7     Board may deem appropriate;
8         5. To examine into the conditions, management, and
9     administration of Southern Illinois University, to provide
10     the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and
11     auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
12     matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student
13     activities; fees for student facilities such as student
14     union buildings or field houses or stadium or other
15     recreational facilities; student welfare fees; laboratory
16     fees and similar fees for supplies and material;
17         6. To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
18     property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or
19     pertaining to Southern Illinois University;
20         7. To accept endowments of professorships or
21     departments in the University from any person who may
22     proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules
23     and regulations in relation to endowments and declare on
24     what general principles they may be accepted;
25         8. To enter into contracts with the Federal government
26     for providing courses of instruction and other services at

 

 

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1     Southern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
2     the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
3     provide such courses of instruction and other services;
4         9. To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
5     Federal funds, paid to the Southern Illinois University by
6     the Federal government for instruction and other services
7     for persons serving in or with the military or naval forces
8     of the United States and to provide for audits of such
9     funds;
10         10. To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
11     law, persons to be members of the Southern Illinois
12     University Police Department. Members of the Police
13     Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such
14     have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and
15     sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or
16     warrants of violations of state statutes, university rules
17     and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that
18     they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein
19     the university and any of its branches or properties are
20     located when such is required for the protection of
21     university properties and interests, and its students and
22     personnel, and otherwise, within such counties, when
23     requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement
24     officials. However, such officers shall have no power to
25     serve and execute civil processes.
26         The Board must authorize to each member of the Southern

 

 

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1     Illinois University Police Department and to any other
2     employee of Southern Illinois University exercising the
3     powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its
4     face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by
5     Southern Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique
6     identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by
7     Southern Illinois University.
8         10.5. To conduct health care programs in furtherance of
9     its teaching, research, and public service functions,
10     which shall include without limitation patient and
11     ancillary facilities, institutes, clinics, or offices
12     owned, leased, or purchased through an equity interest by
13     the Board or its appointed designee to carry out such
14     activities in the course of or in support of the Board's
15     academic, clinical, and public service responsibilities.
16         11. To administer a plan or plans established by the
17     clinical faculty of the School of Medicine for the billing,
18     collection and disbursement of charges for services
19     performed in the course of or in support of the faculty's
20     academic responsibilities, provided that such plan has
21     been first approved by Board action. All such collections
22     shall be deposited into a special fund or funds
23     administered by the Board from which disbursements may be
24     made according to the provisions of said plan. The
25     reasonable costs incurred, by the University,
26     administering the billing, collection and disbursement

 

 

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1     provisions of a plan shall have first priority for payment
2     before distribution or disbursement for any other purpose.
3     Audited financial statements of the plan or plans must be
4     provided to the Legislative Audit Commission annually.
5         The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by
6     or through the School of Medicine, a managed care community
7     network established under subsection (b) of Section 5-11 of
8     the Illinois Public Aid Code.
9         12. The Board of Trustees may, directly or in
10     cooperation with other institutions of higher education,
11     acquire by purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct,
12     enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate, control and
13     manage medical research and high technology parks,
14     together with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities,
15     equipment, and personal property therefor, to encourage
16     and facilitate (a) the location and development of business
17     and industry in the State of Illinois, and (b) the
18     increased application and development of technology and
19     (c) the improvement and development of the State's economy.
20     The Board of Trustees may lease to nonprofit corporations
21     all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities,
22     equipment or other property included in a medical research
23     and high technology park upon such terms and conditions as
24     the Board of Trustees may deem advisable and enter into any
25     contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as
26     may be necessary or suitable for the construction,

 

 

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1     financing, operation and maintenance and management of any
2     such park; and may lease to any person, firm, partnership
3     or corporation, either public or private, any part or all
4     of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
5     property of such park for such purposes and upon such
6     rentals, terms and conditions as the Board of Trustees may
7     deem advisable; and may finance all or part of the cost of
8     any such park, including the purchase, lease,
9     construction, reconstruction, improvement, remodeling,
10     addition to, and extension and maintenance of all or part
11     of such high technology park, and all equipment and
12     furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government
13     grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the
14     operation of such high technology park, rentals and similar
15     receipts; and may make its other facilities and services
16     available to tenants or other occupants of any such park at
17     rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
18         13. To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
19     anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State
20     of Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the
21     University, also known as anticipated moneys; provided
22     that the money shall be repaid within 12 months after the
23     time the money is borrowed and the amount borrowed shall
24     not exceed 75% of the total amount of payroll and other
25     expense vouchers submitted, but unpaid at the
26     Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the anticipated

 

 

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1     borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied only for
2     the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses lawfully
3     authorized in the university's State appropriation. No
4     borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after
5     August 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to
6     the purposes for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully
7     available. The Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall
8     execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument to
9     evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. In
10     connection with a borrowing, the Board may establish a line
11     of credit with a financial institution.
12         The obligation to make the payments due under the
13     promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
14     obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
15     moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same.
16     Any borrowing under this item 13 shall not constitute a
17     debt, legal or moral, of the State and shall not be
18     enforceable against the State. The promissory note or other
19     debt instrument shall be authorized by a resolution passed
20     by the Board and shall be valid whether or not a budgeted
21     item with respect to that resolution is included in any
22     annual or supplemental budget adopted by the Board. The
23     resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the need for
24     the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to be
25     borrowed will not exceed, establish a maximum interest rate
26     limit not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond

 

 

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1     Authorization Act, and provide a date by which the borrowed
2     funds shall be repaid. The resolution may direct the
3     Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set apart
4     and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
5     received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing,
6     subject to any prior pledges or restrictions with respect
7     to the anticipated moneys. The resolution may also
8     authorize the Treasurer of the Board to make partial
9     repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated moneys
10     become available and may contain any other terms,
11     restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the
12     powers of the Board.
13         For the purposes of this item 13, "financial
14     institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
15     Act, any savings and loan association subject to the
16     Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally
17     chartered commercial bank or savings and loan association
18     organized and operated in this State pursuant to the laws
19     of the United States.
20     The powers of the Board as herein designated are subject to
21 the Board of Higher Education Act.
22 (Source: P.A. 95-158, eff. 8-14-07; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
 
23     Section 15. The Chicago State University Law is amended by
24 changing Section 5-45 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (110 ILCS 660/5-45)
2     Sec. 5-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
3 power and it shall be its duty:
4     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
5 with law, for the government and management of Chicago State
6 University and its branches;
7     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
8 of Chicago State University, and all necessary deans,
9 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
10 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
11 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
12 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
13 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
14 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
15 a search committee to fill the position of President of Chicago
16 State University, there shall be minority representation,
17 including women, on that search committee. The Board shall,
18 upon the written request of an employee of Chicago State
19 University, withhold from the compensation of that employee any
20 dues, payments or contributions payable by such employee to any
21 labor organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
22 Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
23 withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to the
24 pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
25 contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
26 to the specified labor organization within 10 working days from

 

 

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1 the time of the withholding;
2     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
3 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Chicago State University;
4     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
5 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
6 required studies of Chicago State University, and confer such
7 professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by
8 other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent
9 courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;
10     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
11 administration of Chicago State University, to provide the
12 requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
13 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
14 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
15 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or
16 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
17 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
18 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
19 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
20 for conducting Chicago State University, the reimbursed
21 expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or
22 compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
23 employees of Chicago State University, shall be a charge upon
24 the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
25 against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
26 accordingly;

 

 

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1     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
2 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
3 Chicago State University;
4     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
5 in Chicago State University from any person who may proffer
6 them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
7 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
8 general principles they may be accepted;
9     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
10 providing courses of instruction and other services at Chicago
11 State University for persons serving in or with the military or
12 naval forces of the United States, and to provide such courses
13 of instruction and other services;
14     (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
15 Center to obtain services related to electronic data
16 processing;
17     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
18 funds paid to Chicago State University by the Federal
19 government for instruction and other services for persons
20 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
21 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
22     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
23 law, persons to be members of the Chicago State University
24 Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
25 conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed
26 by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to

 

 

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1 make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State
2 statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county
3 ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only
4 within counties wherein Chicago State University and any of its
5 branches or properties are located when such is required for
6 the protection of University properties and interests, and its
7 students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties,
8 when requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement
9 officials. However, such officers shall have no power to serve
10 and execute civil processes.
11     The Board must authorize to each member of the Chicago
12 State University Police Department and to any other employee of
13 Chicago State University exercising the powers of a peace
14 officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
15 that the badge is authorized by Chicago State University and
16 (ii) contains a unique identifying number on its face. No other
17 badge shall be authorized by Chicago State University;
18     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
19 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
20 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
21 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
22 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
23 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
24 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
25 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
26 and (ii) the increased application and development of

 

 

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1 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
2 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
3 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
4 or other property included in a research and high technology
5 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
6 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
7 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
8 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
9 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
10 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
11 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
12 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
13 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
14 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
15 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
16 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
17 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
18 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
19 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
20 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
21 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
22 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
23 reasonable and appropriate.
24     (13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
25 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
26 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also

 

 

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1 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
2 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
3 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
4 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
5 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
6 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
7 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
8 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
9 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
10 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
11 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
12 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
13 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
14 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
15 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial
16 institution.
17     The obligation to make the payments due under the
18 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
19 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
20 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
21 borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
22 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
23 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
24 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
25 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
26 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental

 

 

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1 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
2 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
3 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
4 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
5 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
6 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
7 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
8 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
9 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
10 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
11 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
12 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
13 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
14 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
15 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
16     For the purposes of this item (13), "financial institution"
17 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings
18 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
19 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or
20 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
21 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
22 (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
23     Section 20. The Eastern Illinois University Law is amended
24 by changing Section 10-45 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (110 ILCS 665/10-45)
2     Sec. 10-45. Powers and duties.
3     (a) The Board also shall have power and it shall be its
4 duty:
5         (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
6     inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
7     Eastern Illinois University and its branches.
8         (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
9     President of Eastern Illinois University, and all
10     necessary deans, professors, associate professors,
11     assistant professors, instructors, other educational and
12     administrative assistants, and all other necessary
13     employees, and to prescribe their duties and contract with
14     them upon matters relating to tenure, salaries and
15     retirement benefits in accordance with the State
16     Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board
17     establishes a search committee to fill the position of
18     President of Eastern Illinois University, there shall be
19     minority representation, including women, on that search
20     committee. The Board shall, upon the written request of an
21     employee of Eastern Illinois University, withhold from the
22     compensation of that employee any dues, payments or
23     contributions payable by such employee to any labor
24     organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
25     Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
26     withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to

 

 

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1     the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
2     contributions, and the Board shall transmit such
3     withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10
4     working days from the time of the withholding.
5         (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed,
6     and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Eastern Illinois
7     University.
8         (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
9     diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed
10     the required studies of Eastern Illinois University, and
11     confer such professional and literary degrees as are
12     usually conferred by other institutions of like character
13     for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the
14     Board may deem appropriate.
15         (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
16     administration of Eastern Illinois University, to provide
17     the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and
18     auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
19     matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student
20     activities; fees for student facilities such as student
21     union buildings or field houses or stadia or other
22     recreational facilities; student welfare fees; laboratory
23     fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials. The
24     expense of the building, improving, repairing and
25     supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
26     and apparatus for conducting Eastern Illinois University,

 

 

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1     the reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the
2     salaries or compensation of the President, assistants,
3     agents and other employees of Eastern Illinois University,
4     shall be a charge upon the State Treasury. All other
5     expenses shall be chargeable against students, and the
6     Board shall regulate the charges accordingly.
7         (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
8     property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or
9     pertaining to Eastern Illinois University.
10         (7) To accept endowments of professorships or
11     departments in Eastern Illinois University from any person
12     who may proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe
13     rules and regulations in relation to endowments and declare
14     on what general principles they may be accepted.
15         (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
16     for providing courses of instruction and other services at
17     Eastern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
18     the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
19     provide such courses of instruction and other services.
20         (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative
21     Computer Center to obtain services related to electronic
22     data processing.
23         (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
24     Federal funds paid to Eastern Illinois University by the
25     Federal government for instruction and other services for
26     persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of

 

 

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1     the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds.
2         (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil
3     service law, persons to be members of the Eastern Illinois
4     University Police Department. Members of the Police
5     Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such
6     have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and
7     sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or
8     warrants of violations of State statutes, University rules
9     and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that
10     they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein
11     Eastern Illinois University and any of its branches or
12     properties are located when such is required for the
13     protection of University properties and interests, and its
14     students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
15     counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
16     enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have
17     no power to serve and execute civil processes.
18         The Board must authorize to each member of the Eastern
19     Illinois University Police Department and to any other
20     employee of Eastern Illinois University exercising the
21     powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its
22     face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by
23     Eastern Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique
24     identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by
25     Eastern Illinois University.
26         (12) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time

 

 

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1     in anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the
2     State of Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the
3     University, also known as anticipated moneys; provided
4     that the money shall be repaid within 12 months after the
5     time the money is borrowed and the amount borrowed shall
6     not exceed 75% of the total amount of payroll and other
7     expense vouchers submitted, but unpaid at the
8     Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the anticipated
9     borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied only for
10     the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses lawfully
11     authorized in the university's State appropriation. No
12     borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after
13     August 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to
14     the purposes for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully
15     available. The Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall
16     execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument to
17     evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. In
18     connection with a borrowing, the Board may establish a line
19     of credit with a financial institution.
20         The obligation to make the payments due under the
21     promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
22     obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
23     moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same.
24     Any borrowing under this item (12) shall not constitute a
25     debt, legal or moral, of the State and shall not be
26     enforceable against the State. The promissory note or other

 

 

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1     debt instrument shall be authorized by a resolution passed
2     by the Board and shall be valid whether or not a budgeted
3     item with respect to that resolution is included in any
4     annual or supplemental budget adopted by the Board. The
5     resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the need for
6     the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to be
7     borrowed will not exceed, establish a maximum interest rate
8     limit not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond
9     Authorization Act, and provide a date by which the borrowed
10     funds shall be repaid. The resolution may direct the
11     Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set apart
12     and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
13     received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing,
14     subject to any prior pledges or restrictions with respect
15     to the anticipated moneys. The resolution may also
16     authorize the Treasurer of the Board to make partial
17     repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated moneys
18     become available and may contain any other terms,
19     restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the
20     powers of the Board.
21         For the purposes of this item (12), "financial
22     institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
23     Act, any savings and loan association subject to the
24     Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally
25     chartered commercial bank or savings and loan association
26     organized and operated in this State pursuant to the laws

 

 

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1     of the United States.
2     (b) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
3 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
4 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
5 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
6 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
7 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
8 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
9 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
10 and (ii) the increased application and development of
11 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
12 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
13 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
14 or other property included in a research and high technology
15 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
16 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
17 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
18 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
19 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
20 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
21 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
22 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
23 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
24 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
25 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
26 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all

 

 

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1 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
2 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
3 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
4 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
5 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
6 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
7 reasonable and appropriate.
8     (c) The Board may sell the following described property
9 without compliance with the State Property Control Act and
10 retain the proceeds in the University treasury in a special,
11 separate development fund account that the Auditor General
12 shall examine to assure compliance with this Law:
13     Lots 511 and 512 in Heritage Woods V, Charleston, Coles
14     County, Illinois.
15 Revenues from the development fund account may be withdrawn by
16 the University for the purpose of upgrading the on-campus
17 formal reception facility. Moneys from the development fund
18 account used for any other purpose must be deposited into and
19 appropriated from the General Revenue Fund.
20 (Source: P.A. 91-251, eff. 7-22-99; 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
21     Section 25. The Governors State University Law is amended
22 by changing Section 15-45 as follows:
 
23     (110 ILCS 670/15-45)
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1 power and it shall be its duty:
2     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
3 with law, for the government and management of Governors State
4 University and its branches;
5     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
6 of Governors State University, and all necessary deans,
7 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
8 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
9 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
10 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
11 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
12 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
13 a search committee to fill the position of President of
14 Governors State University, there shall be minority
15 representation, including women, on that search committee. The
16 Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
17 Governors State University, withhold from the compensation of
18 that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
19 such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
20 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
21 arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
22 payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
23 annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
24 shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
25 organization within 10 working days from the time of the
26 withholding;

 

 

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1     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
2 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Governors State
3 University;
4     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
5 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
6 required studies of Governors State University, and confer such
7 professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by
8 other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent
9 courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;
10     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
11 administration of Governors State University, to provide the
12 requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
13 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
14 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
15 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or
16 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
17 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
18 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
19 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
20 for conducting Governors State University, the reimbursed
21 expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or
22 compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
23 employees of Governors State University, shall be a charge upon
24 the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
25 against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
26 accordingly;

 

 

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1     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
2 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
3 Governors State University;
4     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
5 in Governors State University from any person who may proffer
6 them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
7 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
8 general principles they may be accepted;
9     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
10 providing courses of instruction and other services at
11 Governors State University for persons serving in or with the
12 military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide
13 such courses of instruction and other services;
14     (9) To operate, maintain, and contract with respect to the
15 Cooperative Computer Center for its own purposes and to provide
16 services related to electronic data processing to other public
17 and private colleges and universities, to governmental
18 agencies, and to public or private not-for-profit agencies; and
19 to examine the conditions, management, and administration of
20 the Cooperative Computer Center;
21     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
22 funds paid to Governors State University by the Federal
23 government for instruction and other services for persons
24 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
25 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
26     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service

 

 

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1 law, persons to be members of the Governors State University
2 Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
3 conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed
4 by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to
5 make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State
6 statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county
7 ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only
8 within counties wherein Governors State University and any of
9 its branches or properties are located when such is required
10 for the protection of University properties and interests, and
11 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
12 counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
13 enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have no
14 power to serve and execute civil processes.
15     The Board must authorize to each member of the Governors
16 State University Police Department and to any other employee of
17 Governors State University exercising the powers of a peace
18 officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
19 that the badge is authorized by Governors State University and
20 (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge shall
21 be authorized by Governors State University;
22     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
23 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
24 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
25 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
26 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,

 

 

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1 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
2 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
3 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
4 and (ii) the increased application and development of
5 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
6 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
7 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
8 or other property included in a research and high technology
9 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
10 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
11 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
12 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
13 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
14 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
15 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
16 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
17 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
18 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
19 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
20 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
21 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
22 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
23 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
24 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
25 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
26 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are

 

 

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1 reasonable and appropriate.
2     (13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
3 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
4 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also
5 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
6 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
7 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
8 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
9 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
10 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
11 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
12 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
13 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
14 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
15 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
16 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
17 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
18 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
19 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial
20 institution.
21     The obligation to make the payments due under the
22 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
23 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
24 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
25 borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
26 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable

 

 

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1 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
2 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
3 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
4 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
5 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
6 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
7 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
8 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
9 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
10 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
11 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
12 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
13 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
14 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
15 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
16 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
17 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
18 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
19 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
20     For the purposes of this item (13), "financial institution"
21 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings
22 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
23 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or
24 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
25 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
26 (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 

 

 

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1     Section 30. The Illinois State University Law is amended by
2 changing Section 20-45 as follows:
 
3     (110 ILCS 675/20-45)
4     Sec. 20-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
5 power and it shall be its duty:
6     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
7 with law, for the government and management of Illinois State
8 University and its branches;
9     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
10 of Illinois State University, and all necessary deans,
11 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
12 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
13 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
14 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
15 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
16 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
17 a search committee to fill the position of President of
18 Illinois State University, there shall be minority
19 representation, including women, on that search committee. The
20 Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
21 Illinois State University, withhold from the compensation of
22 that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
23 such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
24 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such

 

 

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1 arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
2 payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
3 annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
4 shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
5 organization within 10 working days from the time of the
6 withholding;
7     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
8 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Illinois State
9 University;
10     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
11 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
12 required studies of Illinois State University, and confer such
13 professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by
14 other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent
15 courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;
16     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
17 administration of Illinois State University, to provide the
18 requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
19 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
20 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
21 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or
22 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
23 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
24 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
25 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
26 for conducting Illinois State University, the reimbursed

 

 

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1 expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or
2 compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
3 employees of Illinois State University, shall be a charge upon
4 the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
5 against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
6 accordingly;
7     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
8 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
9 Illinois State University;
10     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
11 in Illinois State University from any person who may proffer
12 them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
13 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
14 general principles they may be accepted;
15     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
16 providing courses of instruction and other services at Illinois
17 State University for persons serving in or with the military or
18 naval forces of the United States, and to provide such courses
19 of instruction and other services;
20     (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
21 Center to obtain services related to electronic data
22 processing;
23     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
24 funds paid to Illinois State University by the Federal
25 government for instruction and other services for persons
26 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United

 

 

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1 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
2     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
3 law, persons to be members of the Illinois State University
4 Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
5 conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed
6 by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to
7 make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State
8 statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county
9 ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only
10 within counties wherein Illinois State University and any of
11 its branches or properties are located when such is required
12 for 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. However, such officers shall have no
16 power to serve and execute civil processes.
17     The Board must authorize to each member of the Illinois
18 State University Police Department and to any other employee of
19 Illinois State University exercising the powers of a peace
20 officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
21 that the badge is authorized by Illinois State University and
22 (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge shall
23 be authorized by Illinois State University;
24     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
25 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
26 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,

 

 

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1 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
2 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
3 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
4 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
5 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
6 and (ii) the increased application and development of
7 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
8 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
9 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
10 or other property included in a research and high technology
11 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
12 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
13 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
14 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
15 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
16 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
17 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
18 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
19 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
20 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
21 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
22 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
23 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
24 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
25 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
26 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and

 

 

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1 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
2 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
3 reasonable and appropriate;
4     (13) To assist in the provision of lands, buildings, and
5 facilities that are supportive of university purposes and
6 suitable and appropriate for the conduct and operation of the
7 university's education programs, the Board of Trustees of
8 Illinois State University may exercise the powers specified in
9 subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph (13) with
10 regard to the following described property located near the
11 Normal, Illinois campus of Illinois State University:
12     Parcel 1: Approximately 300 acres that form a part of the
13     Illinois State University Farm in Section 20, Township 24
14     North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian in
15     McLean County, Illinois.
16     Parcels 2 and 3: Lands located in the Northeast Quadrant of
17     the City of Normal in McLean County, Illinois, one such
18     parcel consisting of approximately 150 acres located north
19     and east of the old Illinois Soldiers and Sailors
20     Children's School campus, and another such parcel, located
21     in the Northeast Quadrant of the old Soldiers and Sailors
22     Children's School Campus, consisting of approximately
23     1.03.
24         (a) The Board of Trustees may sell, lease, or otherwise
25     transfer and convey all or part of the above described
26     parcels of real estate, together with the improvements

 

 

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1     situated thereon, to a bona fide purchaser for value,
2     without compliance with the State Property Control Act and
3     on such terms as the Board of Trustees shall determine are
4     in the best interests of Illinois State University and
5     consistent with its objects and purposes.
6         (b) The Board of Trustees may retain the proceeds from
7     the sale, lease, or other transfer of all or any part of
8     the above described parcels of real estate in the
9     University treasury, in a special, separate development
10     fund account that the Auditor General shall examine to
11     assure the use or deposit of those proceeds in a manner
12     consistent with the provisions of subparagraph (c) of this
13     paragraph (13).
14         (c) Moneys from the development fund account may be
15     used by the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University
16     to acquire and develop other land to achieve the same
17     purposes for which the parcels of real estate described in
18     this item (13), all or a part of which have been sold,
19     leased, or otherwise transferred and conveyed, were used
20     and for the purpose of demolition and the processes
21     associated with demolition on the acquired land. Moneys
22     from the development fund account used for any other
23     purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from the
24     General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to an
25     entity or person other than the University shall not be
26     subject to any limitations applicable to a State-supported

 

 

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1     college or university under any law. All development on the
2     land and all the use of any buildings or facilities shall
3     be subject to the control and approval of the Board of
4     Trustees of Illinois State University.
5     (14) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
6 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
7 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also
8 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
9 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
10 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
11 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
12 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
13 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
14 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
15 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
16 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
17 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
18 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
19 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
20 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
21 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
22 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial
23 institution.
24     The obligation to make the payments due under the
25 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
26 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated

 

 

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1 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
2 borrowing under this item (14) shall not constitute a debt,
3 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
4 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
5 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
6 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
7 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
8 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
9 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
10 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
11 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
12 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
13 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
14 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
15 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
16 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
17 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
18 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
19 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
20 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
21 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
22 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
23     For the purposes of this item (14), "financial institution"
24 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings
25 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
26 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or

 

 

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1 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
2 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
3 (Source: P.A. 91-396, eff. 7-30-99; 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
4     Section 33. The Northeastern Illinois University Law is
5 amended by changing Section 25-45 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 680/25-45)
7     Sec. 25-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
8 power and it shall be its duty:
9     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
10 with law, for the government and management of Northeastern
11 Illinois University and its branches;
12     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
13 of Northeastern Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
14 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
15 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
16 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
17 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
18 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
19 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
20 a search committee to fill the position of President of
21 Northeastern Illinois University, there shall be minority
22 representation, including women, on that search committee. The
23 Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
24 Northeastern Illinois University, withhold from the

 

 

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1 compensation of that employee any dues, payments or
2 contributions payable by such employee to any labor
3 organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
4 Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
5 withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to the
6 pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
7 contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
8 to the specified labor organization within 10 working days from
9 the time of the withholding;
10     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
11 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northeastern Illinois
12 University;
13     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
14 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
15 required studies of Northeastern Illinois University, and
16 confer such professional and literary degrees as are usually
17 conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
18 or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
19 appropriate;
20     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
21 administration of Northeastern Illinois University, to provide
22 the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
23 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
24 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
25 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or
26 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;

 

 

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1 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
2 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
3 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
4 for conducting Northeastern Illinois University, the
5 reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
6 or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
7 employees of Northeastern Illinois University, shall be a
8 charge upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be
9 chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
10 charges accordingly;
11     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
12 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
13 Northeastern Illinois University;
14     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
15 in Northeastern Illinois University from any person who may
16 proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
17 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
18 general principles they may be accepted;
19     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
20 providing courses of instruction and other services at
21 Northeastern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
22 the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
23 provide such courses of instruction and other services;
24     (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
25 Center to obtain services related to electronic data
26 processing;

 

 

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1     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
2 funds paid to Northeastern Illinois University by the Federal
3 government for instruction and other services for persons
4 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
5 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
6     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
7 law, persons to be members of the Northeastern Illinois
8 University Police Department. Members of the Police Department
9 shall be conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
10 possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
11 power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
12 State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
13 county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
14 only within counties wherein Northeastern Illinois University
15 and any of its branches or properties are located when such is
16 required for the protection of University properties and
17 interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
18 within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
19 local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
20 have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
21     The Board must authorize to each member of the Northeastern
22 Illinois University Police Department and to any other employee
23 of Northeastern Illinois University exercising the powers of a
24 peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly
25 states that the badge is authorized by Northeastern Illinois
26 University and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No

 

 

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1 other badge shall be authorized by Northeastern Illinois
2 University;
3     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
4 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
5 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
6 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
7 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
8 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
9 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
10 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
11 and (ii) the increased application and development of
12 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
13 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
14 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
15 or other property included in a research and high technology
16 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
17 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
18 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
19 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
20 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
21 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
22 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
23 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
24 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
25 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
26 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

 

 

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1 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
2 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
3 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
4 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
5 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
6 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
7 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
8 reasonable and appropriate.
9     (13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
10 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
11 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also
12 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
13 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
14 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
15 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
16 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
17 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
18 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
19 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
20 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
21 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
22 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
23 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
24 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
25 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
26 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial

 

 

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1 institution.
2     The obligation to make the payments due under the
3 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
4 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
5 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
6 borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
7 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
8 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
9 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
10 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
11 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
12 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
13 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
14 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
15 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
16 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
17 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
18 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
19 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
20 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
21 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
22 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
23 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
24 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
25 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
26 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.

 

 

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1     For the purposes of this item (13), "financial institution"
2 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings
3 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
4 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or
5 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
6 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
8     Section 35. The Northern Illinois University Law is amended
9 by changing Section 30-45 as follows:
 
10     (110 ILCS 685/30-45)
11     Sec. 30-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
12 power and it shall be its duty:
13     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
14 with law, for the government and management of Northern
15 Illinois University and its branches;
16     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
17 of Northern Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
18 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
19 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
20 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
21 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
22 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
23 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
24 a search committee to fill the position of President of

 

 

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1 Northern Illinois University, there shall be minority
2 representation, including women, on that search committee. The
3 Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
4 Northern Illinois University, withhold from the compensation
5 of that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
6 such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
7 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
8 arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
9 payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
10 annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
11 shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
12 organization within 10 working days from the time of the
13 withholding;
14     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
15 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northern Illinois
16 University;
17     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
18 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
19 required studies of Northern Illinois University, and confer
20 such professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred
21 by other institutions of like character for similar or
22 equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
23 appropriate;
24     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
25 administration of Northern Illinois University, to provide the
26 requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary

 

 

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1 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
2 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
3 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or
4 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
5 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
6 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
7 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
8 for conducting Northern Illinois University, the reimbursed
9 expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or
10 compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
11 employees of Northern Illinois University, shall be a charge
12 upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
13 against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
14 accordingly;
15     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
16 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
17 Northern Illinois University;
18     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
19 in Northern Illinois University from any person who may proffer
20 them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
21 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
22 general principles they may be accepted;
23     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
24 providing courses of instruction and other services at Northern
25 Illinois University for persons serving in or with the military
26 or naval forces of the United States, and to provide such

 

 

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1 courses of instruction and other services;
2     (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
3 Center to obtain services related to electronic data
4 processing;
5     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
6 funds paid to Northern Illinois University by the Federal
7 government for instruction and other services for persons
8 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
9 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
10     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
11 law, persons to be members of the Northern Illinois University
12 Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
13 conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed
14 by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to
15 make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State
16 statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county
17 ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only
18 within counties wherein Northern Illinois University and any of
19 its branches or properties are located when such is required
20 for the protection of University properties and interests, and
21 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
22 counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
23 enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have no
24 power to serve and execute civil processes.
25     The Board must authorize to each member of the Northern
26 Illinois University Police Department and to any other employee

 

 

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1 of Northern Illinois University exercising the powers of a
2 peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly
3 states that the badge is authorized by Northern Illinois
4 University and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No
5 other badge shall be authorized by Northern Illinois
6 University;
7     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
8 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
9 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
10 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
11 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
12 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
13 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
14 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
15 and (ii) the increased application and development of
16 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
17 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
18 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
19 or other property included in a research and high technology
20 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
21 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
22 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
23 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
24 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
25 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
26 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other

 

 

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1 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
2 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
3 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
4 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
5 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
6 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
7 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
8 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
9 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
10 may 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     (13) To assist in the provision of buildings and facilities
14 beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of university
15 purposes, the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University
16 may exercise the following powers with regard to the area
17 located on or adjacent to the Northern Illinois University
18 DeKalb campus and bounded as follows:
19 Parcel 1:
20     In Township 40 North, Range 4 East, of the Third Prime
21     Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: The East
22     half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 17, the Southwest
23     Quarter of Section 16, and the Northwest Quarter of Section
24     21, all in the County of DeKalb, Illinois.
25 Parcel 2:
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1     Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: On the
2     North, by a line beginning at the Northwest corner of the
3     Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence East 1,903.3 feet;
4     thence South to the North line of the Southeast Quarter of
5     the Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence East along said
6     line to North First Street; on the West by Garden Road
7     between Lucinda Avenue and the North boundary; thence on
8     the South by Lucinda Avenue between Garden Road and the
9     intersection of Lucinda Avenue and the South Branch of the
10     Kishwaukee River, and by the South Branch of the Kishwaukee
11     River between such intersection and easterly to the
12     intersection of such river and North First Street; thence
13     on the East by North First Street.
14         (a) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
15     facilities by purchase, including installments payable
16     over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of such
17     duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine, or by
18     exercise of the power of eminent domain;
19         (b) Sublease or contract to purchase through
20     installments all or any portion of buildings or facilities
21     for such duration and on such terms as the Board of
22     Trustees shall determine, including a term that exceeds 5
23     years, provided that each such lease or purchase contract
24     shall be and shall recite that it is subject to termination
25     and cancellation in any year for which the General Assembly
26     fails to make an appropriation to pay the rent or purchase

 

 

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1     installments payable under the terms of such lease or
2     purchase contracts; and
3         (c) Sell property without compliance with the State
4     Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the University
5     treasury in a special, separate development fund account
6     which the Auditor General shall examine to assure
7     compliance with this Act.
8     Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land
9 shall be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of
10 the Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by
11 the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of the
12 University, including, by way of example, residential,
13 recreational, educational, and athletic facilities for
14 University staff and students and commercial facilities which
15 provide services needed by the University community. Revenues
16 from the development fund account may be withdrawn by the
17 University for the purpose of demolition and the processes
18 associated with demolition; routine land and property
19 acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape work;
20 landscape work; surface and structure parking; sidewalks,
21 recreational paths, and street construction; and lease and
22 lease purchase arrangements and the professional services
23 associated with the planning and development of the area.
24 Moneys from the development fund account used for any other
25 purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from the
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1 entity or person other than the University shall not be subject
2 to any limitations applicable to a State-supported college or
3 university under any law. All development on the land and all
4 the use of any buildings or facilities shall be subject to the
5 control and approval of the Board of Trustees of Northern
6 Illinois University.
7     (14) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
8 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
9 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also
10 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
11 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
12 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
13 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
14 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
15 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
16 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
17 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
18 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
19 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
20 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
21 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
22 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
23 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
24 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial
25 institution.
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1 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
2 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
3 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
4 borrowing under this item (14) shall not constitute a debt,
5 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
6 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
7 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
8 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
9 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
10 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
11 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
12 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
13 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
14 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
15 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
16 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
17 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
18 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
19 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
20 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
21 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
22 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
23 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
24 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
25     For the purposes of this item (14), "financial institution"
26 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings

 

 

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1 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
2 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or
3 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
4 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
5 (Source: P.A. 90-284, eff. 1-1-98; 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
6     Section 40. The Western Illinois University Law is amended
7 by changing Section 35-45 as follows:
 
8     (110 ILCS 690/35-45)
9     Sec. 35-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
10 power and it shall be its duty:
11     (1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent
12 with law, for the government and management of Western Illinois
13 University and its branches;
14     (2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
15 of Western Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
16 professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
17 instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
18 and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
19 duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
20 salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
21 Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
22 a search committee to fill the position of President of Western
23 Illinois University, there shall be minority representation,
24 including women, on that search committee. The Board shall,

 

 

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1 upon the written request of an employee of Western Illinois
2 University, withhold from the compensation of that employee any
3 dues, payments or contributions payable by such employee to any
4 labor organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
5 Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
6 withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to the
7 pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
8 contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
9 to the specified labor organization within 10 working days from
10 the time of the withholding;
11     (3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
12 textbooks and apparatus to be used at Western Illinois
13 University;
14     (4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
15 diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
16 required studies of Western Illinois University, and confer
17 such professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred
18 by other institutions of like character for similar or
19 equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
20 appropriate;
21     (5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
22 administration of Western Illinois University, to provide the
23 requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
24 enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition
25 fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities
26 such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or

 

 

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1 other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
2 laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
3 The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying
4 fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus
5 for conducting Western Illinois University, the reimbursed
6 expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or
7 compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
8 employees of Western Illinois University, shall be a charge
9 upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
10 against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
11 accordingly;
12     (6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
13 property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to
14 Western Illinois University;
15     (7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
16 in Western Illinois University from any person who may proffer
17 them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
18 regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
19 general principles they may be accepted;
20     (8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for
21 providing courses of instruction and other services at Western
22 Illinois University for persons serving in or with the military
23 or naval forces of the United States, and to provide such
24 courses of instruction and other services;
25     (9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
26 Center to obtain services related to electronic data

 

 

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1 processing;
2     (10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal
3 funds paid to Western Illinois University by the Federal
4 government for instruction and other services for persons
5 serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
6 States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
7     (11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
8 law, persons to be members of the Western Illinois University
9 Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
10 conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed
11 by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to
12 make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State
13 statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county
14 ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only
15 within counties wherein Western Illinois University and any of
16 its branches or properties are located when such is required
17 for the protection of University properties and interests, and
18 its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
19 counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
20 enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have no
21 power to serve and execute civil processes.
22     The Board must authorize to each member of the Western
23 Illinois University Police Department and to any other employee
24 of Western Illinois University exercising the powers of a peace
25 officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
26 that the badge is authorized by Western Illinois University and

 

 

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1 (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge shall
2 be authorized by Western Illinois University;
3     (12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
4 institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
5 or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
6 complete, operate, control and manage research and high
7 technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
8 buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
9 therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
10 development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
11 and (ii) the increased application and development of
12 technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
13 State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
14 all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
15 or other property included in a research and high technology
16 park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
17 advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
18 nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
19 construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
20 management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
21 partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
22 or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
23 property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
24 terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
25 finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
26 purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

 

 

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1 remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
2 or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
3 furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
4 contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of
5 such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and
6 may make its other facilities and services available to tenants
7 or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
8 reasonable and appropriate.
9     (13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
10 anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
11 Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University, also
12 known as anticipated moneys; provided that the money shall be
13 repaid within 12 months after the time the money is borrowed
14 and the amount borrowed shall not exceed 75% of the total
15 amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted, but
16 unpaid at the Comptroller's Office, 30 days prior to the
17 anticipated borrowing. The borrowed moneys shall be applied
18 only for the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
19 lawfully authorized in the university's State appropriation.
20 No borrowing under this provision shall be allowed after August
21 31, 2010. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the purposes
22 for which the anticipated moneys are lawfully available. The
23 Chairman or Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory
24 note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness
25 incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the
26 Board may establish a line of credit with a financial

 

 

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1 institution.
2     The obligation to make the payments due under the
3 promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful
4 obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
5 moneys as set forth in the resolution authorizing the same. Any
6 borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
7 legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
8 against the State. The promissory note or other debt instrument
9 shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and
10 shall be valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to
11 that resolution is included in any annual or supplemental
12 budget adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth
13 facts demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount
14 that the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, establish a
15 maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
16 authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, and provide a date by
17 which the borrowed funds shall be repaid. The resolution may
18 direct the Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set
19 apart and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
20 received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing, subject to
21 any prior pledges or restrictions with respect to the
22 anticipated moneys. The resolution may also authorize the
23 Treasurer of the Board to make partial repayments of the
24 borrowing as the anticipated moneys become available and may
25 contain any other terms, restrictions, or limitations not
26 inconsistent with the powers of the Board.

 

 

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1     For the purposes of this item (13), "financial institution"
2 means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings
3 and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan
4 Act of 1985, and any federally chartered commercial bank or
5 savings and loan association organized and operated in this
6 State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
8     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.".