Illinois 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3775 Enrolled / Bill

Filed 05/12/2023

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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7  (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)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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