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Public Act 095-0981
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| HB5022 Enrolled |
LRB095 15318 HLH 41306 b |
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Public Graveyards Act is amended by changing |
Section 1 as follows:
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(50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
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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.
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(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 |
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elected under this Act shall be filled only by
appointment. |
Such appointment shall be made by the county board of any
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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
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appointed in each odd-numbered year for a term of 6 years and |
until his
or her respective successors are appointed and |
qualified.
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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.
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(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 |