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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 Public Graveyards Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 1 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
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| Sec. 1. (a) Public graveyards in this State, not under the |
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| control
of any corporation sole, organization or society, and |
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| located within the
limits of townships or counties not under |
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| township organization, shall
and may be controlled or vacated |
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| by the corporate authorities of such
township or county in such |
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| manner as such authorities may deem proper,
and in the case of |
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| townships, such control may be vested in 3 trustees. If a |
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| township board has vested control of a public graveyard in 3 |
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| trustees in accordance with this Section, it may, by |
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| resolution, divest the trustees of control of the public |
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| graveyard and assume control of the public graveyard.
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| (b) Vacancies created by the expiration occurring at any |
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| time after
the effective date of the amendatory Act of the |
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| Seventy-eighth
General Assembly and after this amendatory Act |
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| of the 83rd General Assembly
of the terms of cemetery trustees |
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| of a township (except a
township coterminous with a |
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| municipality) or of a county not under
township organization |
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| elected under this Act shall be filled only by
appointment. |
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| Such appointment shall be made by the county board of any
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| county not under township organization or by the Township Board |
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| of
Trustees in counties under township organization, as the |
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| case may be,
for a term of 6 years. Until the effective date of |
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| this amendatory Act
of 1983, in a township coterminous with a |
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| municipality, cemetery trustees
shall continue to be elected by |
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| ballot, with one trustee elected in each odd-numbered
year, in |
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| accordance with the provisions of the general election law,
for |
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| a term of 6 years and until their respective successors are |
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| elected
and qualified. After the effective date of this |
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| amendatory Act of 1983,
in a township coterminous with a |
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| municipality, cemetery trustees shall be
appointed by the |
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| governing authority of the municipality with one trustee
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| appointed in each odd-numbered year for a term of 6 years and |
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| until his
or her respective successors are appointed and |
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| qualified.
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| Such trustees may be paid such compensation, not to exceed |
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| $1,000 $500 per
year, as may be fixed by the Township Board of |
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| Trustees.
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| (c) Not more than one of the trustees shall be from any one |
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| city or
village or incorporated town or section of land within |
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| such township
unless such city, village, incorporated town or |
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| section of land shall
have more than 50% of the population of |
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| the township according to the
last preceding Federal census in |
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| which are included 2 or more cities,
villages, incorporated |