Illinois § 15.3

§ 15.3.

Disposition of facilities. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the board of directors of a Hospital District, by public or private offer, may provide for the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition of a public hospital and its facilities, in whole or in part, as provided in this Section. (b) The board of directors, by resolution, may authorize a Hospital District to enter into contracts and agreements for the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition, in whole or in part, at one time or from time to time of the public hospital and its facilities to a public or private corporation or other entity, hospital, health care facility, unit of local government, or institution of higher education, provided, unless the board of directors in the resolution expressly finds and determines otherwise, that the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition does not adversely affect access to the hospital by inhabitants of the Hospital District. At least 10 days before the adoption of a resolution under this subsection, the board of directors shall make the proposed resolution conveniently available for public inspection and shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed resolution. At least 10 days before the time of the public hearing, notice of the hearing shall be published in one or more newspapers having general circulation in the Hospital District. The notice shall state the date, time and place of the public hearing and the place where copies of the proposed resolution will be available for examination. (c) After entering into and giving effect to the contracts and agreements with respect to any transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition under subsection (b), the Hospital District may continue to exist and to own, operate, and maintain facilities, whether or not a public hospital of the Hospital District continues to exist after the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition. In addition, the Hospital District may continue to exist and to exercise powers, functions, and authority under this Act as the board of directors may find desirable or necessary, for up to 3 years, to give effect to such transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition and, as applicable, related to the facilities to continue to be owned, operated, and maintained by the Hospital District. The board of directors of the Hospital District may continue the Hospital District for up to 3 years to initiate the ownership, operations, and maintenance of other facilities and thereafter to continue to own, operate, and maintain the other facilities. (d) If, before a transfer, sale, lease, or disposition of the public hospital under subsection (b), a labor organization has been recognized by the Hospital District as the exclusive representative of the majority of employees in a bargaining unit for purposes of collective bargaining, and if a transferee, purchaser, or lessor subject to the National Labor Relations Act retains or hires a majority of the employees in the bargaining unit, the 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 the labor organization makes a timely written assertion of its representational capacity to the transferee, purchaser or lessor. (Source: P.A. 92-534, eff. 5-14-02.)