Cemetery Protection Act

Sections covered

• 765 ILCS 835/0.001Short title
• 765 ILCS 835/.01For the purposes of this Act, the term: "Cemetery authority" means an individual or legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property
• 765 ILCS 835/1(a) Any person who acts without proper legal authority and who willfully and knowingly destroys or damages the remains of a deceased human being or who desecrates human remains is guilty of a Class 3 felony
• 765 ILCS 835/10Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/11All persons so named in such petition, except the petitioner, shall be made parties defendant by name, and if the name or names of any owner or claimant are alleged in the petition to be unknown, such persons shall be made parties defendant under the name and style of "Unknown Owners"
• 765 ILCS 835/12Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/13Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/14Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/14.5Correction of encroachment on interment, entombment, or inurnment rights
• 765 ILCS 835/15Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly
• 765 ILCS 835/16When a multiple interment right owner becomes deceased, the ownership of any unused rights of interment shall pass in accordance with the specific bequest in the decedent's will
• 765 ILCS 835/17Memorialization of veteran remains
• 765 ILCS 835/2Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/3Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/4Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/5Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/5aThe cemetery authority may invest the funds received under Section 4 or 5 in notes secured by a first mortgage or trust deed upon improved or income producing real estate situated in this State and not exceeding one-half the value thereof at the time the investment is made by the directors
• 765 ILCS 835/6Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/7The trust funds, gifts and bequests mentioned in sections four (4) and five (5) of this act, shall be exempt from taxation and from the operation of all laws of mortmain, and laws against perpetuities and accumulations
• 765 ILCS 835/8Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act
• 765 ILCS 835/9Property › 765 ILCS 835 — Cemetery Protection Act