(225 ILCS 411/20-10)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-206)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

Sec. 20-10. Contract. At the time cemetery arrangements are made and prior to rendering the cemetery services, a cemetery authority shall create a completed written contract to be provided to the consumer, signed by both parties by their actual written signatures on either paper or electronic form, that shall contain: (i) the date on which the arrangements were made; (ii) the price of the service selected and the services and merchandise included for that price; (iii) the supplemental items of service and merchandise requested and the price of each item; (iv) the terms or method of payment agreed upon; and (v) a statement as to any monetary advances made on behalf of the family. The cemetery authority shall maintain a copy of such written contract in its permanent records.

(Source: P.A. 102-20, eff. 6-25-21.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-206)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

Sec. 20-10. Contract.

(a) At the time cemetery arrangements are made and prior to rendering the cemetery services, a cemetery authority shall create a completed written contract to be provided to the consumer, signed by both parties by their actual written signatures on either paper or electronic form, that shall contain: (i) the date on which the arrangements were made; (ii) the price of the service selected and the services and merchandise included for that price; (iii) the supplemental items of service and merchandise requested and the price of each item; (iv) the terms or method of payment agreed upon; and (v) a statement as to any monetary advances made on behalf of the family. The cemetery authority shall maintain a copy of such written contract in its permanent records.

(b) Any retail installment contract for the purchase of interment, entombment, or inurnment rights shall contain a clearly worded notice in 12-point type, bold, underlined, and capital letters, that rights to a deeded interest do not vest until final payment and that upon an uncured default, including when a contract is rolled into a new open-balance retail installment contract, with additional interment, entombment, or inurnment rights or additional cemetery merchandise or services, there will be no deeded interest.

(Source: P.A. 102-20, eff. 6-25-21; 103-206, eff. 1-1-24.)