HB 1888 — ROSELAND MEDICAL DISTRICT

HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b AN ACT concerning local government.

(1) maintain the proper surroundings for a medical HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 2 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b center and a related technology center in order to attract, stabilize, and retain within the District hospitals, clinics, research facilities, educational facilities, or other facilities permitted under this Act;

The Commission shall obtain any personnel as the Commission deems advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act and the work of the HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 3 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b Commission.

(e) The Commission shall hold regular meetings annually for the election of a President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer, for the adoption of a budget, and for any other HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 4 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b business as may properly come before it.

(g) The Auditor General shall conduct audits of the Commission in the same manner as the Auditor General conducts HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 5 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b audits of State agencies under the Illinois State Auditing Act.

The Commission is HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 6 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b authorized to acquire the fee simple title to real property lying within the District and personal property required for its purposes, by gift, purchase, or otherwise.

The Commission has HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 7 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b no quick take powers, no zoning powers, and no power to establish or enforce building codes.

The Commission may, in its corporate capacity, construct or cause to be constructed within the District hospitals, sanitariums, clinics, laboratories, or any other institution, building, or structure or other ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may, from time to time, determine are established and operated (i) for the carrying out of any aspect of the Commission's purposes as set forth in this Act, for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of human ailments and injuries, whether physical or mental, or to promote medical, surgical, and scientific research and knowledge, for any uses the Commission shall determine will support and nurture facilities and uses permitted by this Act, or for any nursing, extended care, or other facilities as the Commission shall find useful in the study of, research in, or treatment of illnesses or infirmities peculiar to aged people, after a public hearing to be held by any commissioner or other person authorized by the Commission to conduct the hearing, the commissioner or other person has the power to administer oaths and affirmations and take the testimony of witnesses and HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 8 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b receive any documentary evidence as shall be pertinent, the commissioner or other person shall certify to the Commission the record of the hearing, the record shall become part of the records of the Commission, notice of the time, place, and purpose of the hearings to be given by a single publication notice in a secular newspaper of general circulation in Cook County at least 10 days before the date of the hearing, or (ii) for any institutions that engage in the training, education, or rehabilitation of persons who by reason of illness or physical infirmity are wholly or partially deprived of their powers of vision or hearing or of the use of any other part or parts of their bodies as to prevent them from pursuing normal activities of life, for office buildings for physicians or dealers in medical accessories, for dormitories, homes, or residences for the medical profession, including interns, nurses, students, or other officers or employees of the institutions within the District, for the use of relatives of patients in the hospitals or other institutions within the District, for the rehabilitation or establishment of residential structures within a historic district properly designated under a federal statute or a State or local statute that has been certified by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States as containing criteria that will substantially achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings of historic significance to the District, or any other areas of the HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 9 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b District as the Commission shall designate, for research, development, and resultant production in any of the fields of medicine, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, physics, and genetically engineered products, for biotechnology, information technology, medical technology, or environmental technology, for the research and development of engineering, or for computer technology related to any of the purposes for which the Commission may construct structures and improvements within the District.

HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 10 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b Section 35.

All conveyances and leases authorized in this Section shall be on condition that, in the HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 11 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b event of use for other than the purposes prescribed in this Act, or of nonuse for a period of one year, title to the property reverts to the Commission.

The Commission may also provide in the conveyances, leases, or other documentation provisions for notice of such violations or default and the cure thereof for the benefit of any lender or HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 12 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b mortgagee as the Commission shall determine are appropriate.

Before holding any public hearing prescribed in Section 35 of this Act, or any meeting regarding the passage of any resolution to file a lawsuit, the Commission shall give notice to the grantee or lessee, or his or her legal HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 13 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b representatives, successors, or assigns, of the time and place of the proceeding.

Copies of all official documents, findings, and orders of the Commission, certified by HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 14 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b a commissioner or by the secretary of the Commission to be true copies of the originals, under the official seal of the Commission, shall be evidence in like manner as the originals.

In the master plan, the Commission may provide for shared services and facilities within the District for the accredited schools of medicine and HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 15 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b the licensed non-profit acute care hospitals within the District.

The record of the hearing shall become part of the HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 16 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b Commission's record.

HB1888 EngrossedEnrolled - 17 - LRB097 06055 RLJ 46128 b Section 90.