Illinois Compiled Statutes 805 ILCS 320 — Cemetery Association Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cemetery Association Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

That any six (6) or more persons may organize a Cemetery Association, to be owned, managed and controlled in the manner hereinafter provided

That any six (6) or more persons may organize a Cemetery Association, to be owned, managed and controlled in the manner hereinafter provided. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 90.)

Whenever six (6) or more persons shall present to the Secretary of State a petition setting forth that they desire to organize a Cemetery Association under this act, to be located in (here insert the county) and that said Cemetery Association shall be known by the name and style of (here insert the name of the associat…

The persons so receiving the articles of organization shall cause the same to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which the cemetery is situated, and when so recorded, the association shall be deemed fully organized as a body corporate under the name adopted, and in its corporate name may sue and be s…

That said persons so receiving said certificate of organization of said association shall proceed to elect from their own number a board of trustees for said association, which said board shall consist of not less than six (6) nor more than ten (10) members, as said persons so receiving said certificate may determine;…

Any cemetery association, when so organized, shall have the right and the same is expressly given to such association to acquire the necessary amount of land for the use of the cemetery association which said land may be acquired by purchase or by gift and the association is hereby authorized to receive by gift, or leg…

Said Cemetery Association when so organized may divide and lay out into lots, any real estate which it may acquire, which said lots shall be of suitable size for burial lots, and when any such land is laid out into lots as herein provided, a plat of the same shall be made and recorded in the recorder's office of the co…

The treasurer of said Cemetery Association shall from time to time loan any money which said association may have and which is not needed for the immediate use of said association, taking proper security therefor, and which said loan and the security for the same shall, before the same becomes effective, be approved by…

No officer or trustee of said Cemetery Association shall receive any compensation of any kind for any services rendered by him in behalf of said association, except the secretary of said association, who may receive such salary as may be fixed by the Board of Trustees. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 90.)

No dividends shall be declared or paid to any officer or other person from the funds of said Cemetery Association, but the same shall be kept inviolate and to be used only for purposes of said association and the care, preservation and ornamentation of said cemetery. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 90.)

The board of trustees shall annually prepare and file with the State Comptroller the report required to be filed by a licensee under Section 12 of the "Cemetery Care Act", approved July 21, 1947, as now or hereafter amended. The Comptroller shall examine such report to determine whether the association has fully compli…

The cost of examining the reports required by Section 10 of this Act shall be borne by the cemetery association

The cost of examining the reports required by Section 10 of this Act shall be borne by the cemetery association. The charge made by the Comptroller for examining the reports required by Section 10 of this Act shall be based upon the amount of the total resources of the cemetery association as of the date of the report…

For misconduct in office any of said trustees of said cemetery association may be removed from office by a court of competent jurisdiction, and any trustee of such an association who shall convert any funds of such association to his own use, or to a use other than that intended, shall be guilty of embezzlement and pun…

The Board of Trustees of the cemetery association may make any and all rules and regulations for the management of the association not inconsistent with this Act

The Board of Trustees of the cemetery association may make any and all rules and regulations for the management of the association not inconsistent with this Act. The trustees shall give bond to the Comptroller under the Cemetery Care Act, as amended, and shall not be required to give any other bond. (Source: P.A. 78-5…

Any Cemetery Association existing at the time of the passage of this act, or which may hereafter be organized, may, if it shall so desire, convey to any Cemetery Association organized under this act, the property of said association by a proper deed of conveyance, and thereafter said cemetery shall be under the control…

Any cemetery association organized under this Act may convey any property which it may hold within a city, village, incorporated town, county not under township organization, or town, to the city, village, incorporated town, county or town within which this property is located, and may convey any property which it may…

Any cemetery association organized under this Act is authorized to obtain a grant or grants of Federal funds from the United States Government, or from any proper agency thereof, for the construction of a memorial gateway and entrance on property of such cemetery association which is maintained as a national cemetery.…

The property, both real and personal, of any association organized under this act, shall be forever exempt from taxation for any and all purposes

The property, both real and personal, of any association organized under this act, shall be forever exempt from taxation for any and all purposes. (Source: Laws 1903, p. 90.)

That such cemetery association, when duly organized, shall be public corporations, for the purpose of burial ground and cemetery business only

That such cemetery association, when duly organized, shall be public corporations, for the purpose of burial ground and cemetery business only. (Source: Laws 1905, p. 84.)