[ Search ] [ PDF text ] [ Legislation ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
| [ Engrossed ] | [ Enrolled ] | [ House Amendment 001 ] |
92_HB3773
LRB9210000JMpc
1 AN ACT concerning public graveyards.
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 2c as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 610/2c) (from Ch. 21, par. 14c)
7 Sec. 2c. Use of township funds.
8 (a) The board of trustees of any township may
9 appropriate funds from the township treasury to be used for
10 the purpose of putting any old, neglected graves and
11 cemeteries controlled, managed, and owned by the township in
12 a cleaner and more respectable condition. The amount so
13 appropriated shall not exceed, in any one year, the sum of
14 $300, unless a larger sum is authorized by the township
15 electors at an annual or special town meeting.
16 (b) The board of trustees of any township may
17 appropriate funds from the township treasury to be used for
18 the maintenance of a non-profit cemetery or a cemetery owned
19 by the State or another unit of local government.
20 (Source: P.A. 87-747; 87-1208.)