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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Public Graveyards Act is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 1 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
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7 | Sec. 1. (a) Public graveyards in this State, not under the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | control
of any corporation sole, organization or society, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | located within the
limits of townships or counties not under | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | township organization, shall
and may be controlled or vacated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | by the corporate authorities of such
township or county in such | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | manner as such authorities may deem proper,
and in the case of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | townships, such control may be vested in 3 trustees. If a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | township board has vested control of a public graveyard in 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | trustees in accordance with this Section, it may, by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | resolution, divest the trustees of control of the public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | graveyard and assume control of the public graveyard.
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18 | (b) Vacancies created by the expiration occurring at any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | time after
the effective date of the amendatory Act of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Seventy-eighth
General Assembly and after this amendatory Act | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | of the 83rd General Assembly
of the terms of cemetery trustees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | of a township (except a
township coterminous with a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | municipality) or of a county not under
township organization |
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1 | elected under this Act shall be filled only by
appointment. | ||||||
2 | Such appointment shall be made by the county board of any
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3 | county not under township organization or by the Township Board | ||||||
4 | of
Trustees in counties under township organization, as the | ||||||
5 | case may be,
for a term of 6 years. Until the effective date of | ||||||
6 | this amendatory Act
of 1983, in a township coterminous with a | ||||||
7 | municipality, cemetery trustees
shall continue to be elected by | ||||||
8 | ballot, with one trustee elected in each odd-numbered
year, in | ||||||
9 | accordance with the provisions of the general election law,
for | ||||||
10 | a term of 6 years and until their respective successors are | ||||||
11 | elected
and qualified. After the effective date of this | ||||||
12 | amendatory Act of 1983,
in a township coterminous with a | ||||||
13 | municipality, cemetery trustees shall be
appointed by the | ||||||
14 | governing authority of the municipality with one trustee
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15 | appointed in each odd-numbered year for a term of 6 years and | ||||||
16 | until his
or her respective successors are appointed and | ||||||
17 | qualified.
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18 | Such trustees may be paid such compensation, not to exceed | ||||||
19 | $1,000 $500 per
year, as may be fixed by the Township Board of | ||||||
20 | Trustees.
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21 | (c) Not more than one of the trustees shall be from any one | ||||||
22 | city or
village or incorporated town or section of land within | ||||||
23 | such township
unless such city, village, incorporated town or | ||||||
24 | section of land shall
have more than 50% of the population of | ||||||
25 | the township according to the
last preceding Federal census in | ||||||
26 | which are included 2 or more cities,
villages, incorporated |
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1 | towns or sections of land.
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2 | (Source: P.A. 94-24, eff. 6-14-05.)
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3 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
4 | becoming law.
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