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91_HB1825

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation
 2    Act by changing Section 11.

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

 5        Section  5.   The Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act
 6    is amended by changing Section 11 as follows:

 7        (525 ILCS 30/11) (from Ch. 105, par. 711)
 8        Sec. 11.  Dedication of cemetery.
 9        (a)  Any part or all of a cemetery that is  suitable  for
10    dedication  may be dedicated, as provided in this Act, by the
11    owner or other cemetery authority.
12        (b)  Dedication of a cemetery or a part thereof does  not
13    affect  its  status  as  a  cemetery nor affect any rights of
14    continuing  use  of  the  cemetery  for   cemetery   purposes
15    including  the  maintenance,  construction or preservation of
16    markers, monuments or memorials, the care of any burial space
17    or the use of a burial space for an interment,  except  that,
18    subject  to  subsection (c), after the cemetery is dedicated,
19    the cemetery authority shall not convey or assign  any  right
20    of  interment  or authorize any interment for which there was
21    not  a  prior  right  and  any  maintenance  or  construction
22    activity shall be in accordance with the rules and the master
23    plan.
24        (c)  A cemetery, or a portion of  a  cemetery,  dedicated
25    before  1990  may  be  returned to use as a cemetery upon the
26    demand of the cemetery authority.
27    (Source: P.A. 82-445.)

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