(20 ILCS 1705/22) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-22)
Sec. 22.
To accept and hold in behalf of the State, if for the public
interest, a grant, gift or legacy of money or property to the
State of Illinois, to the Department, or to any facility of the Department
made in trust for the maintenance or support of a recipient at a facility
of the Department, or for any other legitimate purpose connected with such
facility. The Department shall accept any donation for the board and
treatment of any recipient. The Department also may accept and hold a grant,
gift, or
legacy of money or property made or given to a facility of the Department
that is no longer operating or to a facility of the Department that is
operating under a different
name, provided that if the grant, gift or legacy was made for a
particular purpose, the Department shall, to the extent practicable, use
the grant, gift or legacy in a manner that carries out that purpose with
regard to another facility operated by the Department for the same purpose,
or in the latter case, with regard to that same facility of the Department
that is operating under a different name.
The Department shall cause each gift,
grant or legacy to be kept as a distinct fund, and shall invest
the same in the manner provided by the laws of this State as the same now
exist, or shall hereafter be enacted, relating to securities in which the
deposit in a savings bank may be invested. But the Department may, in its
discretion, deposit in a proper trust company or savings bank, during the
continuance of the trust, any fund so left in trust for the life of a
person, and shall adopt rules and regulations governing the deposit,
transfer, or withdrawal of such fund. The Department shall on the
expiration of any trust as provided in any instrument creating the same,
dispose of the fund thereby created in the manner provided in such
instrument. Monies
found on the recipients at the time of their admission, or
accruing to them during their period of facility care, and monies deposited
with the facility director by relatives, guardians or friends of
recipients for the special comfort and pleasure of such
recipients, shall remain in the custody of such facility
director who shall act as trustee for
disbursement to, in behalf of, or for the benefit of such recipients.
All types of retirement and pension benefits from private and public sources
may be paid directly to the director of the facility where the recipient is a
resident, for deposit to the recipient's trust fund account.
Banks, trust companies, savings and loan companies and insurance carriers
having in their possession funds of $1,000 or less belonging to a
recipient in a facility of the
Department shall release such funds to the director of the facility where the
recipient is a resident, for deposit to the recipient's trust fund
account. The facility director shall
provide a receipt to any bank, trust company, savings and loan company or
insurance carrier for the amount received and such receipt shall constitute
a valid and sufficient discharge and release of the obligation of such
bank, trust company, savings and loan company or insurance carrier to the
recipient for whom such payment was so made, to the extent of the payment
made. Each facility director shall keep in a book an itemized account of all
receipts and expenditures of funds described in the above proviso, which
book shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Department.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-218, eff. 1-1-02.)
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