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1 AN ACT concerning business.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Cemetery Oversight Act is amended by
5 changing Section 20-10 as follows:
6 (225 ILCS 411/20-10)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
8 Sec. 20-10. Contract.
9 (a) At the time cemetery arrangements are made and prior
10 to rendering the cemetery services, a cemetery authority shall
11 create a completed written contract to be provided to the
12 consumer, signed by both parties by their actual written
13 signatures on either paper or electronic form, that shall
14 contain: (i) the date on which the arrangements were made;
15 (ii) the price of the service selected and the services and
16 merchandise included for that price; (iii) the supplemental
17 items of service and merchandise requested and the price of
18 each item; (iv) the terms or method of payment agreed upon; and
19 (v) a statement as to any monetary advances made on behalf of
20 the family. The cemetery authority shall maintain a copy of
21 such written contract in its permanent records.
22 (b) Any retail installment contract for the purchase of
23 interment, entombment, or inurnment rights shall contain a
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1 clearly worded notice in 12-point type, bold, underlined, and
2 capital letters, that rights to a deeded interest do not vest
3 until final payment and that upon an uncured default,
4 including when a contract is rolled into a new open-balance
5 retail installment contract, with additional interment,
6 entombment, or inurnment rights or additional cemetery
7 merchandise or services, there will be no deeded interest.
8 (Source: P.A. 102-20, eff. 6-25-21.)
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