96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1462


 
Introduced 2/18/2009, by Sen. Gary G. Dahl
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		
















55 ILCS 5/5-27001
  from Ch. 34, par. 5-27001


55 ILCS 5/5-27002
  from Ch. 34, par. 5-27002







    Amends the Counties Code. Requires that a county board designate a person who shall cause to be properly interred the body of any honorably discharged veteran who served with the armed forces of the United States in any congressionally sanctioned war or conflict after the Viet Nam Conflict, in addition to currently eligible veterans.  Provides that the expense of the burial for all eligible veterans shall not exceed $900 (instead of $600).
















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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
















 


 


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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 Counties Code is amended  by changing 
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Sections 5-27001 and 5-27002 as follows:
 



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    (55 ILCS 5/5-27001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-27001)



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    Sec. 5-27001. Appointment of person to have charge of 
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interment. Each county board shall designate some suitable 
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person or persons
to serve without compensation, who shall 
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cause to be properly interred the
body of any honorably 
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discharged veteran who served in the army or navy
of the United 
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States during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, Philippine

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Insurrection, Boxer Uprising in China, or with the armed forces 
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of the United
States in World War I, World War II, during the 
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national emergency between
June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, 
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or during the Viet Nam Conflict between
January 1, 1961 and May 
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7, 1975,   or with the armed forces of the United States in any 
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congressionally sanctioned war or conflict after the Viet Nam 
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Conflict, or their mothers, fathers, husbands, wives,
widows, 
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widowers or minor children, who may hereafter die in such 
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county,
without having sufficient means to defray the funeral 
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expenses.  This
Division shall not apply to such mothers, 
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fathers, husbands, wives, widows
or widowers, if they were 
 


 






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recipients of public assistance at the time of death.

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(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

 



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    (55 ILCS 5/5-27002)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-27002)



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    Sec. 5-27002. Fees. The expense of such burial shall not

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exceed the sum of $900 $600; such
burial shall not be made in 
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any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively
for the burial 
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of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial ground
so 
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used. In case relatives of the deceased, who are unable to bear 
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the
expenses of burial, desire to conduct the funeral, they may 
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be allowed to
do so, and the expense thereof shall be paid as 
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hereinafter provided.

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(Source: P.A. 86-962.)