Full Text of SB1462 96th General Assembly
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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 | 5 |
| 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 | 8 |
| interment. Each county board shall designate some suitable | 9 |
| person or persons
to serve without compensation, who shall | 10 |
| cause to be properly interred the
body of any honorably | 11 |
| discharged veteran who served in the army or navy
of the United | 12 |
| States during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, Philippine
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| Insurrection, Boxer Uprising in China, or with the armed forces | 14 |
| of the United
States in World War I, World War II, during the | 15 |
| national emergency between
June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, | 16 |
| or during the Viet Nam Conflict between
January 1, 1961 and May | 17 |
| 7, 1975, or with the armed forces of the United States in any | 18 |
| congressionally sanctioned war or conflict after the Viet Nam | 19 |
| Conflict, or their mothers, fathers, husbands, wives,
widows, | 20 |
| widowers or minor children, who may hereafter die in such | 21 |
| county,
without having sufficient means to defray the funeral | 22 |
| expenses. This
Division shall not apply to such mothers, | 23 |
| 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 | 6 |
| any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively
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| of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial ground
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| used. In case relatives of the deceased, who are unable to bear | 9 |
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expenses of burial, desire to conduct the funeral, they may | 10 |
| be allowed to
do so, and the expense thereof shall be paid as | 11 |
| hereinafter provided.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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