Section 117.51  Funeral Home Services

a)         Complete preparation and preservation of the body,

b)         Casket,

c)         Outside box,

d)         Customary local transportation of the body,

e)         Use of funeral home and of all customary facilities and appointments thereof,

f)         Arrangements for religious services, if requested,

g)         Appropriate dress, suit, or shroud, if necessary,

h)         Grave services, if customarily provided.

i)          Additional services shall be approved in the following situations:

1)         Based on documentation (e.g., copy of the decedent's death certificate, coroner's report, physician's report or fire report) provided by the funeral home that circumstances of the decendent's death demand special burial requirements.

2)         An oversize casket is required.  Prior approval is required for additional payment for an oversize casket.  A request for payment for an oversize casket will be granted only if the funeral home establishes and documents (e.g., copy of the decendent's death certificate, coroner's report, physician's report or fire report) the need for oversize casket.

3)         Transportation outside a twenty mile radius is allowed at a rate of fifty cents per additional mile:

A)        for out of state burials to a maximum of $50;

B)        for intrastate burials the cost of excess transportation combined with actual cemetery charges cannot exceed the maximum burial allowance;

C)        for Anatomical Gift cases fifty cents per additional mile will be allowed; and

D)        no additional transportation charges are allowed for cremation cases.

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 780, effective January 1, 1990)