(755 ILCS 5/22-1) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 22-1)
Sec. 22-1.
Power to collect and remove personal estate.)
A representative to whom letters are issued on the estate of a nonresident decedent
or ward by a court of competent jurisdiction of any other state,
territory, country or the District of Columbia may collect and receive any
personal estate in this State of the decedent or ward and
remove it to the jurisdiction in which his letters are issued upon delivering
to the person or corporation indebted to or holding the personal estate of the
decedent or ward, the following: (a) an affidavit by the representative
that to his knowledge no letters, which have been issued upon the petition
of an heir, legatee
or creditor of the decedent or kindred of the ward, are then outstanding
on the estate in this
State, no petition for letters by an heir, legatee or creditor of the decedent or
kindred of the ward is pending on the estate in this State, and there are no
creditors of the estate in this State, and (b) a copy of his letters certified within 60
days before the date of presentation. Upon payment or delivery of the assets,
after receipt of the affidavit and certified copy, the person or corporation
is released to the same extent as if the payment or delivery had been made to a
legally qualified resident representative and is not required to see to the
application or disposition of the property; but no payment or delivery may be made
sooner than 30 days after decedent's death.
(Source: P.A. 79-328.)
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