(805 ILCS 320/4) (from Ch. 21, par. 38)
Sec. 4.
That said persons so receiving said certificate of
organization of said association shall proceed to elect from their own
number a board of trustees for said association, which said board shall
consist of not less than six (6) nor more than ten (10) members, as said
persons so receiving said certificate may determine; that said trustees
when elected shall immediately organize by electing from their own
membership a president, vice president and treasurer, and shall also
elect a secretary, who may or may not be a member of said board of
trustees, in their discretion, which said officers shall hold their
respective offices for and during the period of one (1) year, and until
their successors are duly elected and qualified. Said trustees when so
elected shall divide themselves by lot into two classes, the first of
which shall hold their offices for and during the period of three (3)
years, and the second of which shall hold their offices for and during
the period of six (6) years, and that thereafter the term of office of
said trustees shall be six (6) years, and that upon the expiration of
the term of office of any of said trustees, or in case of the
resignation or death or removal from the State of Illinois of any of
said trustees, or their removal from office as provided in this act, the
remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall notify the presiding officer
of the County Board
in which said cemetery is situated, of such vacancy or vacancies in
writing and thereupon said presiding officer shall appoint some suitable
person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies; and that thereafter
the presiding officer of the county board in which said cemetery association is
located shall always appoint some suitable person or persons interested in said cemetery
association through family interments or who are citizens of
the State of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 97-679, eff. 2-6-12.)
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