65 ILCS 5/11-23-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-3)Sec. 11-23-3.         In the event any municipality has  established a city public  hospital in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-23-1 and in the  further event the corporate authorities shall  determine that the hospital  is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was established or that  those purposes would be better served through the operation of the city  hospital by a corporation, hospital, health care  facility, unit of local government or institution of higher education, the  corporate authorities by ordinance may authorize the  transfer, sale or lease of the hospital to such corporation, hospital,  health care facility, unit of local government or institution of higher  education within or without  the corporate limits of the city, or may authorize the sale or lease of the  hospital to any mental health clinic which obtains any portion of its funds  from the Department of Human Services (as successor to the Department of  Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities).  Such  transfer, sale or lease may be on such terms and under such conditions as  the corporate authorities may deem proper without  regard to any provisions of  Division 9 of Article 8 or Divisions 75, 76, 77 and 78 of this Article 11.  At least 10 days prior to the adoption of an ordinance under this  Section the corporate authorities shall make the proposed ordinance  conveniently available for public inspection and shall hold at least one  public hearing thereon.  Notice of this hearing shall be published in one  or more newspapers published in the municipality, or if there is none  published in the municipality, in a newspaper having general circulation in  the municipality, at least 10 days prior to the time of the public hearing.   Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the place  where copies of the proposed ordinance will be accessible for examination.If a city public hospital is transferred, sold or leased as authorized  by this section and if no bonds issued under the provisions of Section  11-23-6 or Section 11-23-13 are outstanding, the city council may transfer  any excess funds remaining in the Hospital Fund to the general fund of the  city to be expended for capital expenditures only and not for operating  expenses of the city.In the event that prior to the sale or lease of the hospital pursuant  to this Section, a labor organization has been recognized by the hospital  as the exclusive representative of the majority of employees in a  bargaining unit for purposes of collective bargaining, and in the further  event that a purchaser or lessor subject to the National Labor Relations  Act retains or hires a majority of the employees in such a bargaining unit,  such purchaser or lessor shall recognize the labor organization as the  exclusive representative of the majority of employees in that bargaining  unit for purposes of collective bargaining, provided that the labor  organization makes a timely written assertion of its representational  capacity to the purchaser or lessor.    (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)