SB 848 — LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH

SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b AN ACT concerning local government.

and (2) provide for the orderly creation, maintenance, development, and expansion of (i) health care facilities SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 2 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b and other ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may from time to time determine are established and operated (A) for any aspect of the carrying out of the Commission’s purposes as set forth in this Act, (B) for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of human ailments and injuries, whether physical or mental, or (C) to promote medical, surgical, and scientific research and knowledge as permitted under this Act;

The Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity or his or her designee, the Director of Public Health or his or her SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 3 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b designee, and the Secretary of Human Services or his or her designee shall serve as ex-officio members.

SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 4 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b (g) The Auditor General shall conduct audits of the Commission in the same manner as the Auditor General conducts audits of State agencies under the Illinois State Auditing Act.

The Commission may acquire by lease any real property located within the District and personal property found by the Commission to be necessary for its purposes and to which the Commission finds that it need not acquire the fee simple title for carrying out SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 5 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b of those purposes.

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 such nursing, extended care, or other facilities as the SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 6 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b 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, which Commissioner or other person has the power to administer oaths and affirmations and take the testimony of witnesses and receive such documentary evidence as shall be pertinent, the record of which hearing he or she shall certify to the Commission, which 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 St.

Clair County at least 10 days before the date of the hearing, or (ii) for such institutions as shall 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 such other part or parts of their bodies as 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 to the Secretary of the Treasury as containing criteria that will substantially achieve the purpose of preserving and rehabilitating buildings of historic significance to the district, or such other areas of the 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, SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 7 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b 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.

To assure that the use of the real property so sold or leased is in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the Commission shall inquire into and satisfy itself concerning the financial ability of the purchaser to complete the project for which the real property is sold or leased in accordance with a SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 8 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b plan to be presented by the purchaser or lessee, which plan shall be submitted, in writing, 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 SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 9 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b cure thereof for the benefit of any lender or mortgagee as the Commission shall determine are appropriate.

The notice shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the Secretary of the Commission, or by any person authorized by the Commission to sign the same, setting forth any act or things done or omitted to be done in violation, or claimed to be in violation, of any restriction as to the use of the property, whether the restriction be prescribed in any of the terms of this Act or by any SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 10 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b restriction as to the use of the property determined by the Commission under the terms of this Act.

The Commission may set apart any part of the District as a park, except those areas owned, operated, or used for purposes authorized under this Act by organizations or institutions engaged in the delivery or conduct of health care services, education, or research, and may construct, control, and maintain the same or may provide by contract with the East SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 11 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b St.

The advisory council shall meet at the call of the President of the Commission and shall conduct its affairs in accordance with the rules that the Commission may adopt from time to time for the governance and SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 12 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b operation of the advisory council.

Property owned by and exclusively used by the Commission shall be exempt from SB0848 EngrossedEnrolled - 13 - LRB094 04445 MKM 34474 b taxation and shall be subject to condemnation by the State and any municipal corporation or agency of the State for any State or municipal purpose under the provisions for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under Article VII of the Code of Civil Procedure.