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Public Act 095-0158
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LRB095 01249 NHT 21251 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Southern Illinois University Management Act |
is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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(110 ILCS 520/8) (from Ch. 144, par. 658)
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Sec. 8. Powers and Duties of the Board. The Board shall |
have power and
it shall be its duty:
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1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not |
inconsistent with
law, for the government and management of |
Southern Illinois University
and its branches;
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2. To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a |
president of Southern
Illinois University, and all |
necessary deans, professors, associate
professors, |
assistant professors, instructors, and other educational |
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administrative assistants, and all other necessary |
employees, and
contract with them upon matters relating to |
tenure, salaries and
retirement benefits in accordance |
with the State Universities Civil Service
Act; the Board |
shall, upon the written request of an employee of Southern
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Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of |
that employee any
dues, payments or contributions payable |
by such employee to any labor
organization as defined in |
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the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
Under such |
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
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payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the |
annual dues plus
any payments or contributions, and the |
Board shall transmit such withholdings
to the specified |
labor organization within 10 working days from the time
of |
the withholding. Whenever the Board establishes a search |
committee to
fill the position of president of Southern |
Illinois University, there shall
be minority |
representation, including women, on that search committee;
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3. To prescribe the course of study to be followed, and |
textbooks
and apparatus to be used at Southern Illinois |
University;
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4. To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty, |
diplomas to such
persons as have satisfactorily completed |
the required studies of
Southern Illinois University, and |
confer such professional and literary
degrees as are |
usually conferred by other institutions of like character
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for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the |
Board may
deem appropriate;
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5. To examine into the conditions, management, and |
administration of
Southern Illinois University, to provide |
the requisite buildings,
apparatus, equipment and |
auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
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matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student |
activities; fees for
student facilities such as student |
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union buildings or field houses or
stadium or other |
recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory |
fees and similar fees for supplies and material;
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6. To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust |
property, and
gifts now or hereafter belonging or |
pertaining to Southern Illinois
University;
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7. To accept endowments of professorships or |
departments in the
University from any person who may |
proffer them and, at regular
meetings, to prescribe rules |
and regulations in relation to endowments
and declare on |
what general principles they may be accepted;
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8. To enter into contracts with the Federal government |
for providing
courses of instruction and other services at |
Southern Illinois
University for persons serving in or with |
the military or naval forces
of the United States, and to |
provide such courses of instruction and
other services;
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9. To provide for the receipt and expenditures of |
Federal funds,
paid to the Southern Illinois University by |
the Federal government for
instruction and other services |
for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces |
of the United States and to provide for audits
of such |
funds;
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10. To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service |
law, persons
to be members of the Southern Illinois |
University Police Department.
Members of the Police |
Department shall be conservators of the peace and
as such |
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have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and |
sheriffs,
including the power to make arrests on view or |
warrants of violations of
state statutes, university rules |
and regulations and city or county
ordinances, except that |
they may exercise such powers only within
counties wherein |
the university and any of its branches or properties
are |
located when such is required for the protection of |
university
properties and interests, and its students and |
personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when |
requested by appropriate State
or local law enforcement |
officials. However, such officers shall have no
power to |
serve and execute civil processes.
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The Board must authorize to each member of the Southern |
Illinois University
Police
Department
and to any other |
employee of Southern Illinois University exercising the |
powers
of a peace officer
a distinct badge
that, on its |
face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by |
Southern
Illinois
University and
(ii) contains a unique |
identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized
by |
Southern Illinois University.
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(10.5) To conduct health care programs in furtherance |
of its teaching, research, and public service functions, |
which shall include without limitation patient and |
ancillary facilities, institutes, clinics, or offices |
owned, leased, or purchased through an equity interest by |
the Board or its appointed designee to carry out such |
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activities in the course of or in support of the Board's |
academic, clinical, and public service responsibilities.
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11. To administer a plan or plans established by the |
clinical faculty
of the School of Medicine for the billing, |
collection and disbursement of
charges made by individual |
faculty members for professional services performed
by |
them in the course of or in support of the faculty's
their |
academic responsibilities,
provided that such plan has |
been first approved by Board action. All such
collections |
shall be deposited into a special fund or funds |
administered
by the Board from which disbursements may be |
made according to the provisions
of said plan. The |
reasonable costs incurred, by the University, |
administering
the billing, collection and disbursement |
provisions of a plan shall have
first priority for payment |
before distribution or disbursement for any other
purpose. |
Audited financial statements of the plan or plans must be |
provided
Charges established pursuant to this plan must be |
itemized in any
billing and any amounts collected which are |
not used to off-set the cost
of operating or maintaining |
the activity which generated the funds collected,
must be |
accounted for separately. This accounting must clearly |
show the
use and application made of the funds and the |
Board shall report such
accountings for the previous fiscal |
year to the Legislative Audit
Commission annually by |
December 31 of each fiscal year.
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The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by |
or through the School
of Medicine, a managed care community |
network established under subsection
(b)
of Section 5-11 of |
the Illinois Public Aid Code.
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12. The Board of Trustees may, directly or in |
cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, |
acquire by purchase or lease or
otherwise, and construct, |
enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate,
control and |
manage medical research and high technology parks, |
together
with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities, |
equipment, and personal
property therefor, to encourage |
and facilitate (a) the location and
development of business |
and industry in the State of Illinois, and (b) the
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increased application and development of technology and |
(c) the improvement
and development of the State's economy. |
The Board of Trustees may lease to
nonprofit corporations |
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities,
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equipment or other property included in a medical research |
and high
technology park upon such terms and conditions as |
the Board of Trustees may
deem advisable and enter into any |
contract or agreement with such nonprofit
corporations as |
may be necessary or suitable for the construction,
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financing, operation and maintenance and management of any |
such park; and
may lease to any person, firm, partnership |
or corporation, either public or
private, any part or all |
of the land, building, facilities, equipment or
other |
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property of such park for such purposes and upon such
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rentals, terms and conditions as the Board of Trustees may |
deem advisable; and
may finance all or part of the cost of |
any such park, including the purchase,
lease, |
construction, reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, |
addition to,
and extension and maintenance of all or part |
of such high technology park,
and all equipment and |
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government
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grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the |
operation of
such high technology park, rentals and similar |
receipts; and may make its
other facilities and services |
available to tenants or other occupants of
any such park at |
rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
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The powers of the Board as herein designated are subject to |
the Board
of Higher Education Act.
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(Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01; 92-370, eff. 8-15-01.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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