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                                     SRS093 00061 PLM 00061 b

 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  Public  Graveyards  Act  is amended by
 5    changing Section 1 as follows:

 6        (50 ILCS 610/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 13)
 7        Sec. 1.  (a) Public graveyards in this State,  not  under
 8    the control of any corporation sole, organization or society,
 9    and  located  within  the limits of townships or counties not
10    under township organization, shall and may be  controlled  or
11    vacated  by  the  corporate  authorities  of such township or
12    county in such manner as such authorities  may  deem  proper,
13    and in the case of townships, such control may be vested in 3
14    trustees.
15        (b)  Vacancies created by the expiration occurring at any
16    time  after  the  effective date of the amendatory Act of the
17    Seventy-eighth General Assembly and after this amendatory Act
18    of the  83rd  General  Assembly  of  the  terms  of  cemetery
19    trustees  of a township (except a township coterminous with a
20    municipality) or of a county not under township  organization
21    elected  under  this Act shall be filled only by appointment.
22    Such appointment shall be made by the  county  board  of  any
23    county  not  under  township  organization or by the Township
24    Board of Trustees in counties under township organization, as
25    the case may be, for a term of 6 years. Until  the  effective
26    date   of   this  amendatory  Act  of  1983,  in  a  township
27    coterminous with  a  municipality,  cemetery  trustees  shall
28    continue to be elected by ballot, with one trustee elected in
29    each  odd-numbered year, in accordance with the provisions of
30    the general election law, for a term of  6  years  and  until
31    their respective successors are elected and qualified.  After
 
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 1    the  effective  date  of  this  amendatory  Act of 1983, in a
 2    township coterminous with a municipality,  cemetery  trustees
 3    shall   be  appointed  by  the  governing  authority  of  the
 4    municipality with one trustee appointed in each  odd-numbered
 5    year  for  a  term of 6 years and until his or her respective
 6    successors are appointed and qualified.
 7        Such trustees may  be  paid  such  compensation,  not  to
 8    exceed  $2,000 $500 per year, as may be fixed by the Township
 9    Board of Trustees. If the cemetery trustees also act  as  the
10    cemetery  caretakers,  then the cemetery trustees may be paid
11    compensation not to exceed $5,000 per year, as may  be  fixed
12    by the Township Board of Trustees.
13        (c)  Not  more than one of the trustees shall be from any
14    one city or village or incorporated town or section  of  land
15    within  such township unless such city, village, incorporated
16    town or section of land shall  have  more  than  50%  of  the
17    population  of  the  township according to the last preceding
18    Federal census in  which  are  included  2  or  more  cities,
19    villages, incorporated towns or sections of land.
20    (Source: P.A. 83-712.)

21        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
22    becoming law.