Public Act 095-0981
 
HB5022 Enrolled LRB095 15318 HLH 41306 b

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