Sec. 1. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is hereby authorized to:.
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Sec. 1. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is hereby authorized to:
(a)Provide for the payment and termination of any trust or mortgage created by and between the Board of Trustees and any person, firm or corporation pursuant to any existing law, involving any building now used by said University for student social activities or educational purposes or for the reacquiring of any property or interest in property now used by said University for student social activities or educational purposes and conveyed in trust or for security by said Board of Trustees pursuant to any existing law, and pledge the revenues thereof for any or all such purposes.
(b)Maintain and operate any such buildings, and to charge for the use thereof, and to carry on such activities in connection therewith as will produce a reasonable excess of income over maintenance and operation expenses.
(c)Hold in the treasury of the University of Illinois all funds derived from the operation of any such building or buildings and to apply the same toward the cost of and maintenance and operation thereof, and toward the retirement of any bonds issued in connection with the acquisition, completion, construction or equipment thereof.
(d)Enter into contracts touching in any manner any matter within the objects and purposes of this Act.
(e)To provide for the payment and termination of any trust created by and between the Board of Trustees and any person, firm or corporation pursuant to any existing law, involving any building now used by said University for student social activities or educational purposes or to reacquire any property or interest in property now used by said University for student social activities or educational purposes and conveyed in trust or for security by said Board of Trustees, pursuant to any existing law, and to pledge the revenues thereof for the payment of any bonds issued for any or all of such purposes as provided in this Act.
(f)Borrow money and issue and sell bonds, at such price as the Board of Trustees may determine, for the purpose of completing, constructing, or equipping such buildings, or for the purpose of paying and terminating any trust created by and between the Board of Trustees or any person, firm or corporation pursuant to any existing law involving any building used by the University for student social activities, student residence halls or educational purposes, or for the purpose of reacquiring any property or interest in property used by said University for student social activities, student residence halls or educational purposes and conveyed in trust or for security by said Board of Trustees pursuant to any existing law, and to refund or refinance, from time to time as often as it shall be advantageous and in the public interest to do so, any and all bonds issued and sold by the Board pursuant to this Act; provided that no bonds shall be issued and sold at a price which will yield to maturity, computed according to standard tables of bond values, a return at the interest rate specified therein in excess of six per cent per annum. Such bonds shall be payable solely and only from the revenues derived from the operation of any such building or buildings acquired, completed, constructed or equipped with the proceeds of such bonds, and shall be secured by a pledge of sufficient of the revenues of any such building or buildings so acquired, completed, constructed or equipped as herein provided.
Such bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the Law Merchant and the Uniform Commercial Code.
Said Board of Trustees shall have power from time to time to execute and deliver trust agreements hereunder to a bank or trust company authorized by the laws of this State or of the United States of America, to accept and execute trusts in the State. Such trust agreements may contain any provision for the deposit with the Trustee thereunder and the disposition of the proceeds of the bonds issued under the provisions of this Act and secured thereby, and such provisions for the protection and enforcement of the rights and remedies of said Trustee and the holders of such bonds as the Board of Trustees may approve.