Bill Text: IL HB5483 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Cemetery Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning powers and duties of cemetery authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5483 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB5483-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Cemetery Care Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 2a as follows:
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6 | (760 ILCS 100/2a) (from Ch. 21, par. 64.2a)
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7 | Sec. 2a.
Powers and
and duties of cemetery authorities; | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | cemetery property
maintained by cemetery care funds. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) With respect to cemetery property
maintained by | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | cemetery care funds, a cemetery authority shall be
responsible | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | for the performance of:
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12 | (1) the care and maintenance of the cemetery property | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | it owns;
and
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14 | (2) the opening and closing of all graves, crypts, or | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | niches
for human remains in any cemetery property it owns.
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16 | (b) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling
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17 | managing a privately operated cemetery shall
make available for | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | inspection, and upon
reasonable request provide a copy of,
its | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | rules and regulations and its current prices of
interment, | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | inurnment, or entombment rights.
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21 | (c) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling
or | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | managing a privately operated cemetery may, from time
to time | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | as land in its cemetery may be required for burial
purposes, |
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1 | survey and subdivide those lands and make and
file in its | ||||||
2 | office a map thereof delineating the lots or
plots, avenues, | ||||||
3 | paths, alleys, and walks and their
respective designations. The | ||||||
4 | cemetery authority
shall open the map
to public
inspection. The | ||||||
5 | cemetery authority may make available a
copy of the overall map | ||||||
6 | upon written request and payment of
reasonable photocopy fees. | ||||||
7 | Any unsold lots, plots or parts
thereof, in which there are not | ||||||
8 | human remains, may be
resurveyed and altered in shape or size, | ||||||
9 | and properly
designated on such map. Nothing contained in this
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10 | subsection, however, shall prevent the cemetery authority
from | ||||||
11 | enlarging an interment right by selling to the owner thereof | ||||||
12 | the
excess space next to such interment right and permitting | ||||||
13 | interments
therein, provided reasonable access to such | ||||||
14 | interment right and to
adjoining interment rights is not | ||||||
15 | thereby eliminated.
The Comptroller may waive any or all of the | ||||||
16 | requirements of this subsection (c)
for good cause shown.
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17 | (d) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling,
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18 | or managing a privately operated cemetery shall keep a
record | ||||||
19 | of every interment, entombment, and inurnment in the
cemetery. | ||||||
20 | The record shall include the deceased's name,
age, and date of | ||||||
21 | burial, when these particulars can be
conveniently obtained, | ||||||
22 | and the lot, plot, or section where
the human remains are | ||||||
23 | interred, entombed, or inurned.
The record shall be open to | ||||||
24 | public inspection consistent with State and federal
law. The | ||||||
25 | cemetery
authority shall make available, consistent with State | ||||||
26 | and federal law, a true
copy of the record
upon written request |
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1 | and payment of reasonable copy costs.
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2 | (e) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling,
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3 | or managing a privately operated cemetery shall provide
access | ||||||
4 | to the cemetery under the cemetery authority's reasonable rules | ||||||
5 | and
regulations.
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6 | (Source: P.A. 92-419, eff. 1-1-02 .)
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