Illinois · statute · 70 ILCS 105 · 14 active provisions
Any area within the boundaries of a single county may be incorporated as a cemetery maintenance district in the manner following: Fifty or more of the legal voters resident within the limits of such proposed district or a majority thereof if less than 100, may petition the circuit court for the county in which the prop…
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cemetery Maintenance District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all cemetery maintenance districts organized under this Act and every such district shall constitute a body corporate and politic and as such may sue or be sued. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 665.)
A board of trustees consisting of 3 members for the government and control of the affairs and business of a cemetery maintenance district incorporated under this act shall be determined in the following manner: (1) If the district lies wholly within a single township, the board of trustees of that township shall appoin…
Whenever a vacancy in the board of trustees occurs, either by death, resignation, refusal to qualify or for any other reason, the appropriate appointing authority, as defined in Section 3 of this Act shall fill such vacancy by appointment for the unexpired term; and such person so appointed shall qualify for office in…
(a) The trustees shall exercise all of the powers and control all the affairs of such district. The board of trustees, immediately after their appointment and at their first meeting in May of each year thereafter, shall elect one of their number as president and one of their number as secretary. The board shall prescri…
All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall be published at least once in a newspaper published in said district, or if no newspaper of general circulation is published therein, by posting copies of the same in 10 public places in the district; and no such ordinance shall take effect until 10…
All ordinances, orders, and resolutions and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the secretary under the seal of the district and when printed in book or pamphlet form and purporting to be published by the board of trustees, such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the pass…
A cemetery maintenance district may rehabilitate, recondition and restore any neglected or abandoned publicly owned cemetery within the district and may thereafter maintain any such cemetery in good condition. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 665.)
The board of trustees may receive, in trust, from the proprietors or owners of any lot in any cemetery which it maintains or from any person interested in the maintenance of such a cemetery, any gift or legacy of money or property of a value of $50 or more which may be donated to such board for the maintenance of such…
The Board of trustees may levy taxes for corporate purposes upon all taxable property within the territorial limits of such cemetery maintenance district, the aggregate amount of which for each year shall not exceed .06% of value of such property, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue. (Source: P.A. 81-…
Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly. (Source: P.A. 84-731.)
Transfer of funds. When a cemetery maintenance district takes over a cemetery or cemetery authority, the care fund of the cemetery or cemetery authority shall be transferred into the cemetery maintenance district's care fund. (Source: P.A. 91-181, eff. 1-1-00.)
Cessation of district organization. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a majority vote of the board of trustees is in favor of the proposition to annex the district to another district whose boundaries are contiguous, or consolidate the district into a municipality with which the district is coterminous or…