(c) In the event of a sale or transfer of any cemetery land, including any portion of cemetery land in which no human remains have been interred, a licensee shall, at least 45 days prior to the sale or transfer, notify the Department, in writing, of the pending sale or transfer. With the notification, the cemetery authority shall submit information to the Department, which may include a copy of a portion of the cemetery map showing the land to be sold or transferred, to enable the Department to determine whether any human remains are interred, inurned, or entombed within the land to be sold or transferred and whether consumers have rights of interment, inurnment, or entombment within the land to be sold or transferred.
(d) For purposes of this Section, a person who acquires the cemetery through a real estate foreclosure shall be subject to the provisions of this Section pertaining to the purchaser, including licensure.
(Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-10; 97-679, eff. 2-6-12.)
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