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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Public Graveyards Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
7 Sec. 1. (a) Public graveyards in this State, not under
8 the control of any corporation sole, organization or society,
9 and located within the limits of townships or counties not
10 under township organization, shall and may be controlled or
11 vacated by the corporate authorities of such township or
12 county in such manner as such authorities may deem proper,
13 and in the case of townships, such control may be vested in 3
14 trustees.
15 (b) Vacancies created by the expiration occurring at any
16 time after the effective date of the amendatory Act of the
17 Seventy-eighth General Assembly and after this amendatory Act
18 of the 83rd General Assembly of the terms of cemetery
19 trustees of a township (except a township coterminous with a
20 municipality) or of a county not under township organization
21 elected under this Act shall be filled only by appointment.
22 Such appointment shall be made by the county board of any
23 county not under township organization or by the Township
24 Board of Trustees in counties under township organization, as
25 the case may be, for a term of 6 years. Until the effective
26 date of this amendatory Act of 1983, in a township
27 coterminous with a municipality, cemetery trustees shall
28 continue to be elected by ballot, with one trustee elected in
29 each odd-numbered year, in accordance with the provisions of
30 the general election law, for a term of 6 years and until
31 their respective successors are elected and qualified. After
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1 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1983, in a
2 township coterminous with a municipality, cemetery trustees
3 shall be appointed by the governing authority of the
4 municipality with one trustee appointed in each odd-numbered
5 year for a term of 6 years and until his or her respective
6 successors are appointed and qualified.
7 Such trustees may be paid such compensation, not to
8 exceed $2,000 $500 per year, as may be fixed by the Township
9 Board of Trustees. If the cemetery trustees also act as the
10 cemetery caretakers, then the cemetery trustees may be paid
11 compensation not to exceed $5,000 per year, as may be fixed
12 by the Township Board of Trustees.
13 (c) Not more than one of the trustees shall be from any
14 one city or village or incorporated town or section of land
15 within such township unless such city, village, incorporated
16 town or section of land shall have more than 50% of the
17 population of the township according to the last preceding
18 Federal census in which are included 2 or more cities,
19 villages, incorporated towns or sections of land.
20 (Source: P.A. 83-712.)
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.