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90_HB3223

      225 ILCS 45/3b            from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73.103b
      760 ILCS 100/6            from Ch. 21, par. 64.6
      815 ILCS 390/2            from Ch. 21, par. 202
          Amends the Illinois Funeral  or  Burial  Funds  Act,  the
      Cemetery  Care  Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales
      Act.  Makes technical changes.
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 1        AN ACT regarding burial.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  5.   The Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 3b as follows:
 6        (225 ILCS 45/3b) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73.103b)
 7        Sec. 3b.  The Comptroller, at his or her  expense,  shall
 8    provide  a  certified  shorthand  reporter  to  take down the
 9    testimony and preserve a record of  all  proceedings  at  the
10    hearing of any case involving the refusal to issue or renew a
11    license,  the  suspension  or  revocation  of  a license, the
12    imposition of a monetary penalty, or the referral of  a  case
13    for  criminal prosecution.  The record of any such proceeding
14    shall consist of the notice of hearing, complaint, all  other
15    documents  in  the  nature  of  pleadings and written motions
16    filed in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony and the
17    report  and  orders  of  the  Comptroller.   Copies  of   the
18    transcript  of  the  such  record  may  be purchased from the
19    certified shorthand reporter who prepared the record.
20    (Source: P.A. 84-839.)
21        Section 10.  The Cemetery Care Act is amended by changing
22    Section 6 as follows:
23        (760 ILCS 100/6) (from Ch. 21, par. 64.6)
24        Sec. 6. The trust funds authorized by Section 3  of  this
25    Act, and the income from those trust funds therefrom, and any
26    funds  received  under a contract to furnish care of a burial
27    space for a definite number of years, shall be held  for  the
28    general  benefit  of  the  lot  owners  and  are  exempt from
29    taxation. The trust funds authorized  by  the  provisions  of
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 1    Section  3 of this Act, and the income from those trust funds
 2    therefrom, are exempt from  the  operation  of  all  laws  of
 3    mortmain and the laws against perpetuities and accumulations.
 4    (Source: Laws 1967, p. 1188.)
 5        Section  15.  The Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act is
 6    amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 7        (815 ILCS 390/2) (from Ch. 21, par. 202)
 8        Sec.  2.   This  Act  applies  to  all  persons,   except
 9    religious,  municipal,  State  and  federal  cemeteries, that
10    offer  for  sale  or  sell  cemetery  merchandise,   cemetery
11    services,  or  undeveloped interment, entombment or inurnment
12    spaces on a pre-need basis.
13        Nothing in this Act applies shall be deemed to  apply  to
14    pre-arranged  funeral  programs  covered  under  the Illinois
15    Funeral or Burial Funds Act.
16    (Source: P.A. 88-477.)

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