110 ILCS 675/20-35
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 110 - HIGHER EDUCATION|110 ILCS 675/ - Illinois State University Law.|Article 20

Sec. 20-35.         Transfer of powers, duties, assets; outstanding contracts,  agreements and bonds.  All the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the  Board of Regents and relating to the operation,  management, control and  maintenance of Illinois State University are hereby transferred to and  vested in the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University.All books, records,  papers, documents and pending business in any way pertaining to Illinois State  University and held by the Board of Regents are hereby transferred from the  Board of Regents to the Board of  Trustees of Illinois State University.The employment of the president and all other academic and nonacademic  personnel of Illinois State University is hereby transferred from the  Board of Regents to the Board of Trustees  of Illinois State University,  but the status and rights of all personnel whose employment is so  transferred under the State Universities Civil Service System, under the  State Universities Retirement System and under any other contract or  benefit plan shall be unaffected thereby.No rule or regulation promulgated by the Board of Regents prior to the  effective date of this Article  pursuant to an exercise of any right, power, duty, responsibility or matter  of pending business transferred from the Board of Regents to the Board of  Trustees of Illinois State University under the provisions of this  Article shall be affected thereby, and all such rules and  regulations shall become the rules and regulations of the Board of Trustees  of Illinois State University.All items of income heretofore received by Illinois State University  and paid into the State Treasury and covered into the Board of Regents  Income Fund and not heretofore appropriated by the General Assembly for the  support and improvement of Illinois State University under the  provisions of paragraph (1) of Section 6a-4 of the State Finance Act   shall be transferred by the  State Treasurer and covered into the Illinois State University Income  Fund for appropriations from time to time to be made by the General  Assembly payable from such fund for the support and improvement of Illinois  State University as provided in paragraph (1) of Section 6a-1b of that Act;  provided that within 10 days after the effective date of this amendatory  Act of 1996, all moneys then remaining in the Illinois State University Income  Fund  heretofore established as a special fund in the State Treasury shall be repaid  to the University to be deposited and credited to the University Income Fund  established by Illinois State University in its own treasury as provided in  paragraph (1) of Section 6a-1b of the State Finance Act.The right of custody, possession and control over all items of income, funds  or deposits in any  way pertaining to Illinois State University, which on the effective date  of this Article are held or retained by, or under the  jurisdiction of the Board of Regents under  the authority of paragraph (2) of Section 6a-4 of the State Finance Act,  is hereby transferred to and vested in the Board of  Trustees of Illinois State University to be retained by the University  in its own treasury, or deposited with a bank or savings and loan  association, all in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (2) and  (6) of Section 6a-1b of that Act.There is hereby transferred from the Board of Regents to the Board of  Trustees of Illinois State University the power of order and direction  over the disbursement of those funds which immediately prior to the  effective date of this Article were retained by Illinois State University in  its own treasury under the authority of paragraph (3) of  Section 6a-4 of the State Finance Act;  provided that such funds shall be disbursed from time to time  pursuant to the order and direction of the Board of Trustees in accordance  with any contracts, pledges, trusts or agreements heretofore made with  respect to the use or application of such funds by the  Teachers College Board, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and  Universities or the Board of Regents.Illinois State University shall succeed to, assume and exercise all rights,  powers, duties and responsibilities formerly exercised by the Board of Regents  on behalf of Illinois State  University prior to the effective date of this Article.  All contracts and  agreements entered into by the Board of Regents on behalf of Illinois State  University prior to the effective date  of this Article shall be valid and shall subsist notwithstanding the abolition  of the Board of Regents and the repeal of  the Regency Universities Act and notwithstanding the transfer or the functions  of the Board of Regents with respect to Illinois State University to the Board  of Trustees of Illinois State University.  All bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness outstanding on the  effective date of this Article issued by the Teachers College Board, Board of  Governors of State Colleges and Universities or the  Board of Regents on behalf of Illinois State University shall become the bonds,  notes or other evidences of  indebtedness of Illinois State University and shall be otherwise unaffected by  the transfer of functions to Illinois State University.  Any action, including  without limitation, approvals of applications for bonds and resolutions  constituting official action under the Internal Revenue Code by the Teachers  College Board, Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities or Board  of Regents prior to  the effective date of this Article shall remain effective to the same extent as  if that action had been taken by Illinois State University and shall be deemed  to be action taken by Illinois State University.The title to all other property, whether real, personal or mixed,  belonging to or under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents for Illinois  State University is hereby transferred to and vested in the Board of  Trustees of Illinois State University to be held for the People of the  State of Illinois for such University.    (Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96; 89-602, eff. 8-2-96.)