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55 ILCS 5/3-3035

(55 ILCS 5/3-3035) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3035)

Sec. 3-3035.

Liability of common carrier for burial expenses.

When
any railroad, common carrier, airline or any steamboat, barge, propeller or
other vessel engaged in whole or in part in carrying
passengers for hire, brings the dead body of any person into this State;
or, wherever any person dies upon any railroad car, airplane or any such
steamboat, barge, propeller or other vessel in this State, or any person is
killed by cars or machinery of any railroad company, or by accident
thereto, or by accident to or upon any such airplane, steamboat, barge,
propeller or other vessel, or by accident thereto, or when the death occurs
in or about any mine, mill or manufactory, and such death shall have been
caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of any such railroad
company, common carrier, airline, steamboat, barge, propeller or other
vessel owner, or of the owner of any mine, mill or manufactory, the company
or person owning or operating such railroad cars, common carrier, airline,
machinery, barge, steamboat, propeller or other vessel, mine, mill or
manufactory, shall be liable to pay the expenses of the coroner's inquest
upon and for the burial of the deceased, and the same may be recovered in
the name of the county, in any circuit court.

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