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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB1734 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Emil Jones, III SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Requires a court order before a cemetery may disinter deceased human remains from a multiple-depth burial plot if the involved decedent is not located within a concrete outer burial container and if the involved decedent was interred 10 or more years ago.
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| | SB1734 | | LRB102 14172 LNS 19524 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Cemetery Protection Act is amended by |
| 5 | | adding Section 14.6 as follows:
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| 6 | | (765 ILCS 835/14.6 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 14.6. Disinterment of deceased human remains from |
| 8 | | multiple depth burial plots. To help safeguard against the |
| 9 | | unnecessary disruption of other deceased human remains, and in |
| 10 | | recognition of the difficulty in identifying human remains |
| 11 | | after the decomposition process has progressed over time, a |
| 12 | | court order shall be required before a cemetery may disinter |
| 13 | | deceased human remains from a multiple-depth burial plot if |
| 14 | | the involved decedent is not located within a concrete outer |
| 15 | | burial container and if the involved decedent was interred 10 |
| 16 | | or more years ago.
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