Full Text of HB5022 95th General Assembly
HB5022 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5022
Introduced , by Rep. Robert Rita SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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50 ILCS 610/1 |
from Ch. 21, par. 13 |
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Amends the Public Graveyards Act. Provides that the compensation of a public graveyard trustee may not exceed $1,000 (now, $500) per year. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB5022 |
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LRB095 15318 HLH 41306 b |
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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 Public Graveyards Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 1 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
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| Sec. 1. (a) Public graveyards in this State, not under the | 8 |
| control
of any corporation sole, organization or society, and | 9 |
| located within the
limits of townships or counties not under | 10 |
| township organization, shall
and may be controlled or vacated | 11 |
| by the corporate authorities of such
township or county in such | 12 |
| manner as such authorities may deem proper,
and in the case of | 13 |
| townships, such control may be vested in 3 trustees. If a | 14 |
| township board has vested control of a public graveyard in 3 | 15 |
| trustees in accordance with this Section, it may, by | 16 |
| resolution, divest the trustees of control of the public | 17 |
| graveyard and assume control of the public graveyard.
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| (b) Vacancies created by the expiration occurring at any | 19 |
| time after
the effective date of the amendatory Act of the | 20 |
| Seventy-eighth
General Assembly and after this amendatory Act | 21 |
| of the 83rd General Assembly
of the terms of cemetery trustees | 22 |
| of a township (except a
township coterminous with a | 23 |
| municipality) or of a county not under
township organization |
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| elected under this Act shall be filled only by
appointment. | 2 |
| Such appointment shall be made by the county board of any
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| county not under township organization or by the Township Board | 4 |
| of
Trustees in counties under township organization, as the | 5 |
| case may be,
for a term of 6 years. Until the effective date of | 6 |
| this amendatory Act
of 1983, in a township coterminous with a | 7 |
| municipality, cemetery trustees
shall continue to be elected by | 8 |
| ballot, with one trustee elected in each odd-numbered
year, in | 9 |
| accordance with the provisions of the general election law,
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| a term of 6 years and until their respective successors are | 11 |
| elected
and qualified. After the effective date of this | 12 |
| amendatory Act of 1983,
in a township coterminous with a | 13 |
| municipality, cemetery trustees shall be
appointed by the | 14 |
| governing authority of the municipality with one trustee
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| appointed in each odd-numbered year for a term of 6 years and | 16 |
| until his
or her respective successors are appointed and | 17 |
| qualified.
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| Such trustees may be paid such compensation, not to exceed | 19 |
| $1,000 $500 per
year, as may be fixed by the Township Board of | 20 |
| Trustees.
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| (c) Not more than one of the trustees shall be from any one | 22 |
| city or
village or incorporated town or section of land within | 23 |
| such township
unless such city, village, incorporated town or | 24 |
| section of land shall
have more than 50% of the population of | 25 |
| the township according to the
last preceding Federal census in | 26 |
| which are included 2 or more cities,
villages, incorporated |
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| towns or sections of land.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-24, eff. 6-14-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 |
| becoming law.
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