(765 ILCS 835/9) (from Ch. 21, par. 21.2)
Sec. 9. When there is no memorial, monument, or marker installed on a
cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment rights in a community columbarium; no interment in a cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium; no transfer or assignment of a
cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium on the cemetery authority records; no contact by an owner recorded
in the cemetery authority records; publication has been made in a
newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the interment, entombment, or inurnment rights are located and no
response was received; and 50 years have passed since the cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium was
sold,
there is a presumption that the cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium has been abandoned, unless a specific agreement has been entered into designating said rights to be inviolate.
Alternatively, where there is an obligation to pay a cemetery authority,
annually
or periodically, maintenance or care charges on a cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium, or part
thereof, and the owner of or claimant to a right or easement for burial in
such cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium, or part thereof, has failed to pay the required annual
or periodic maintenance or care charges for a period of 30 years or more,
such continuous failure to do so creates and establishes a presumption that
the cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium, or part thereof, has been abandoned.
Upon a court's determination of abandonment, the ownership of a right or
easement for burial in a
cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium, or part thereof, shall be subject to sale in the manner
hereinafter provided.
(Source: P.A. 94-44, eff. 6-17-05.)
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