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