104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1241 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 60 ILCS 1/130-10 Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers). LRB104 02961 JDS 12977 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1241 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 60 ILCS 1/130-10 60 ILCS 1/130-10 Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers). LRB104 02961 JDS 12977 b LRB104 02961 JDS 12977 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1241 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/130-10 60 ILCS 1/130-10
60 ILCS 1/130-10
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers).
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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing
5 Section 130-10 as follows:
6 (60 ILCS 1/130-10)
7 Sec. 130-10. Cemetery board of managers; appointment;
8 powers; organization.
9 (a) If a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within
10 or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory
11 of the township, the township collector or, if the township
12 has no township collector, the township supervisor may appoint
13 a board of 3 persons who shall be known as the cemetery board
14 of managers. Board members shall hold their office for a
15 period of 2 years or until their successors are appointed.
16 (b) The cemetery board of managers may receive in trust,
17 from the proprietors or owners of any lot in the cemetery or
18 any person interested in the maintenance of a lot, any gift or
19 legacy of money or real, personal, or mixed property having a
20 value of $50 or more that may be donated to the board of
21 managers for the use and maintenance of the lot or cemetery.
22 The board of managers may convert the property into money,
23 invest the money as provided by motion of the township, and
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1241 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/130-10 60 ILCS 1/130-10
60 ILCS 1/130-10
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers).
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1 apply the income perpetually for the care of the cemetery lot
2 or the care and maintenance of the cemetery, as specified in
3 the gift or bequest and as provided by motion of the township.
4 Every gift or legacy for any purpose mentioned in this Section
5 made to a cemetery by its name, if the cemetery has a board of
6 managers appointed under this Section, shall vest in the board
7 of managers and take effect to all intents and purposes as if
8 made to that board. The gift or legacy shall not fail merely
9 because the cemetery is not incorporated.
10 (c) The board of managers, as soon as may be convenient
11 after their appointment, shall meet and organize by selecting
12 one of their number to be president and another of their number
13 to be clerk of the board. The board also shall select a
14 treasurer of the board, who may or may not be one of their
15 number and who, before entering upon the treasurer's duties,
16 shall execute a bond to the People of the State of Illinois for
17 the use of the board of managers in a penal sum not less than
18 double the value of the money or property coming into his or
19 her possession as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful
20 performance of his or her duties and for the faithful
21 accounting for all property that, by virtue of the office,
22 comes into the treasurer's possession. The bond shall be in a
23 form and with sureties approved by the township collector or,
24 if the township has no township collector, the township
25 supervisor and shall be approved and preserved in the same
26 manner, as near as may be practicable, as is the bond of the
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