Illinois Statutes Chapter 215. Insurance § 150/2. Authorized organizations; purpose

§ 2. Authorized organizations; purpose. Any number of organizations which are all exempt from taxation under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 1 as amended or as it may be amended hereafter are authorized to establish and become beneficiaries of a trust fund for the purpose of: (1) providing protection for themselves against the risk of financial loss due to damage, destruction or loss to property or the imposition of legal liability; or (2) providing protection for their employees or full-time students, but not dependents, against the risk of financial loss due to accident, sickness, or disablement. Any of such organizations' affiliated title holding corporations that are exempt from taxation under paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended or as it may be amended hereafter, are authorized to establish or become beneficiaries of a trust for the purpose of providing protection for themselves against the risk of financial loss due to damage, destruction, or loss to property or the imposition of legal liability.

A hospital or long-term care facility owned and operated by a tax exempt unit of local government and such unit of local government, in relation to and to the extent of its liabilities arising from the ownership or operation of such hospital or long-term care facility, may participate in the establishment of and may become beneficiaries of a trust fund established under this Act for the purpose of providing protection against the risk of financial loss due to the imposition of legal liability.