(55 ILCS 5/5-28008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28008)
Sec. 5-28008.
Payment of burial expenses.
The board of directors are
authorized to pay, out of the money which is appropriated to them from the
county Soldiers' and Sailors' Burial Fund, the funeral and burial expenses
of persons who come within the description in Section 5-28001, but in no
one case shall they pay for such purpose more than $75; and they are
authorized to buy and erect suitable headstones on the graves of such
persons. But no money shall be expended to pay the funeral and burial
expenses of any soldier or sailor who was an inmate of any soldiers' and
sailors' home at the time of his death.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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