SB2722sam001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Edward D. Maloney

Filed: 11/27/2012

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2722

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2722 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Cemetery Oversight Act is amended by changing Section 20-8 as follows:

(225 ILCS 411/20-8)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2021)

Sec. 20-8. Vehicle traffic control. A cemetery authority shall use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that funeral processions entering and exiting the cemetery grounds do not obstruct traffic on any street for a period in excess of 10 minutes, except where such funeral procession is continuously moving or cannot be moved by reason of circumstances over which the cemetery authority has no reasonable control. The cemetery authority shall use its reasonable best efforts to help prevent multiple funeral processions from arriving at the cemetery simultaneously. No cemetery controlled by a for-profit cemetery authority shall be permitted to conduct more than 10 funerals in a day if the cemetery has only one entry. Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, a cemetery authority that violates the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a business offense and punishable by a fine of not more than $500 for each offense.

(Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-10.)

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