HB3861 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3861

Introduced 10/27/2011, by Rep. Monique D. Davis - Mary E. Flowers - Robert Rita - Jehan A. Gordon - Thaddeus Jones, et al.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

55 ILCS 5/3-3034

from Ch. 34, par. 3-3034

Amends the Counties Code. Requires that in the event that no family can reasonably be found, a coroner must wait at least 60 days before causing a body or remains to be buried, cremated, or donated for medical science purposes. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section 3-3034 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/3-3034) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3034)

Sec. 3-3034. Disposition of body. After the inquest the coroner may deliver the body or human remains of the deceased to the family of the deceased or, if there are no family members to accept the body or the remains, then to friends of the deceased, if there be any, but if not, the coroner shall cause the body or the remains to be decently buried, cremated, or donated for medical science purposes, the expenses to be paid from the property of the deceased, if there is sufficient, if not, by the county. The coroner shall not cause a body or remains to be buried, cremated, or donated for medical science purposes until at least 60 days after a reasonable attempt has been made to locate the family of the deceased. The coroner may not approve the cremation or donation of the body if it is necessary to preserve the body for law enforcement purposes. If the State Treasurer, pursuant to the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, delivers human remains to the coroner, the coroner shall cause the human remains to be disposed of as provided in this Section.

(Source: P.A. 96-1339, eff. 7-27-10.)

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