104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1241
 
Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve McClure
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
60 ILCS 1/130-10
    Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers).


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing 
5Section 130-10 as follows:
 
6    (60 ILCS 1/130-10)
7    Sec. 130-10. Cemetery board of managers; appointment; 
8powers; organization. 
9    (a) If a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within 
10or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory 
11of the township, the township collector or, if the township 
12has no township collector, the township supervisor may appoint 
13a board of 3 persons who shall be known as the cemetery board 
14of managers. Board members shall hold their office for a 
15period of 2 years or until their successors are appointed.
16    (b) The cemetery board of managers may receive in trust, 
17from the proprietors or owners of any lot in the cemetery or 
18any person interested in the maintenance of a lot, any gift or 
19legacy of money or real, personal, or mixed property having a 
20value of $50 or more that may be donated to the board of 
21managers for the use and maintenance of the lot or cemetery. 
22The board of managers may convert the property into money, 
23invest the money as provided by motion of the township, and 
 
 
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1apply the income perpetually for the care of the cemetery lot 
2or the care and maintenance of the cemetery, as specified in 
3the gift or bequest and as provided by motion of the township. 
4Every gift or legacy for any purpose mentioned in this Section 
5made to a cemetery by its name, if the cemetery has a board of 
6managers appointed under this Section, shall vest in the board 
7of managers and take effect to all intents and purposes as if 
8made to that board. The gift or legacy shall not fail merely 
9because the cemetery is not incorporated.
10    (c) The board of managers, as soon as may be convenient 
11after their appointment, shall meet and organize by selecting 
12one of their number to be president and another of their number 
13to be clerk of the board. The board also shall select a 
14treasurer of the board, who may or may not be one of their 
15number and who, before entering upon the treasurer's duties, 
16shall execute a bond to the People of the State of Illinois for 
17the use of the board of managers in a penal sum not less than 
18double the value of the money or property coming into his or 
19her possession as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful 
20performance of his or her duties and for the faithful 
21accounting for all property that, by virtue of the office, 
22comes into the treasurer's possession. The bond shall be in a 
23form and with sureties approved by the township collector or, 
24if the township has no township collector, the township 
25supervisor and shall be approved and preserved in the same 
26manner, as near as may be practicable, as is the bond of the 
 
 
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1treasurer of a village.
2(Source: P.A. 84-549; 88-62.)