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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Dentistry, and Pharmacy of the University of Illinois, shall be controlled, maintained, and operated by the University exclusively. Section 2. Beginning with the biennium 1941-1043 the appropriations for the Research and Educational Hospitals, including the University Clinical Institute, the Illinois Surgical Institute for Children, the Division of Handicapped Children, the power and heating plant and distribution system, the nurses' home, the laundry, the storerooms, and other necessary services and utilities, shall be made to the University. The University shall prepare, in consultation with the Department of Public Welfare, a separate bill to cover the appropriations requested for the 1941-1943 biennium and shall present this bill to the legislature for enactment. The Department of Public Welfare agrees to support said bill as a joint recommendation. Thereafter the University shall be responsible for the preparation and introduction of a bill to cover the cost of operating and maintaining the Research and Educational Hospitals. T h e responsibility and initiative for the further development of the physical plant of the Research Hospitals shall rest with the University. T h e Department shall cooperate with the University in securing additions to the hospital facilities for research and educational purposes. Section 3. T h e University may make general rules for the operation and maintenance of each constituent unit which, under this agreement, is not to be controlled or operated, in whole or in part, by the Department. Section 4. All land, buildings, and equipment now held by the Department of Public Welfare in Chicago in the city block bordered by Polk, Wood, Taylor, and Wolcott Streets shall be transferred to the University when the approval of the General Assembly is secured, with the following exceptions: the Department shall retain the land, buildings, and equipment of the Institute for Juvenile Research and the Neuropsychiatric Institute. T h e University shall assume responsibility for the inventory of all properties and materials included in the transfer. ARTICLE V

M A I N T E N A N C E OF PERSONNEL

Section 1. Maintenance shall be allowed only to officers and employees who are required to be residents of the Research and Educational Hospitals. Requirements for residence shall be determined by the Joint Committee. ARTICLE VI

SCHOOL OF NURSING AND NURSING INSTRUCTION

Section 1. Should a school of nursing be established, during a legislative recess, and the nursing service of the Research and Educational Hospitals be then provided by such a school of nursing, it is agreed that such funds as may have been appropriated for nursing may be made available for the school of nursing so organized by the University until such time as funds are provided in the succeeding budget of the University. ARTICLE VII

DIVISION OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

Section 1. T h e University agrees to undertake the administration of the Division of Handicapped Children, now supported by a grant from the Federal Government, through the Department of Labor and the Children's Bureau, subject to the provisions of existing applicable statutes concerning the powers and duties of the Commission for Physically Handicapped Children. T h e University will undertake a thorough study of the organization and services of this division and shall consult with the Commission on Physically Handicapped Children, the Department of Public Welfare, the State Department of Health, the Children's Bureau, and the Governor, as to the future support and development of this program.