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    (760 ILCS 100/1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.1)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cemetery Care Act.
(Source: P.A. 90‑47, eff. 1‑1‑98. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases used in this Act, for the purpose of this Act, have the following meanings:
    "Person" means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity.
    "Trustee" means any person authorized to hold funds under this Act.
    "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of Illinois.
    "Care" means the maintenance of a cemetery and of the lots, graves, crypts, niches, family mausoleums, memorials, and markers therein; including: (i) the cutting and trimming of lawn, shrubs, and trees at reasonable intervals; (ii) keeping in repair the drains, water lines, roads, buildings, fences, and other structures, in keeping with a well maintained cemetery; (iii) maintenance of machinery, tools, and equipment for such care; (iv) compensation of employees, payment of insurance premiums, and reasonable payments for employees pension and other benefits plans; and (v) to the extent surplus income from the care fund is available, the payment of overhead expenses necessary for such purposes and for maintaining necessary records of lot ownership, transfers, and burials.
    "Care funds" as distinguished from receipts from annual charges or gifts for current or annual care, means any realty or personalty impressed with a trust by the terms of any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, accepted by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee, agent or custodian for the same, under Section 3 of this Act, and the amounts set aside under Section 4 of this Act, and any income accumulated therefrom, where legally so directed by the terms of the transaction by which the principal was established.
    "Cemetery" means any land or structure in this State dedicated to and used, or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains.
    "Cemetery authority" means any person, firm, corporation, trustee, partnership, association or municipality owning, operating, controlling or managing a cemetery or holding lands for burial grounds or burial purposes in this State.
    "Mausoleum crypt" means a space in a mausoleum used or intended to be used, above or under ground, to entomb human remains.
    "Family burying ground" means a cemetery in which no lots are sold to the public and in which interments are restricted to a group of persons related to each other by blood or marriage.
    "Fraternal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any fraternal organization or auxiliary organizations thereof, in which the sale of lots, graves, crypts or niches is restricted principally to its members.
    "Grave" means a space of ground in a cemetery, used, or intended to be used, for burial.
    "Investment Company Act of 1940" means Title 15, of the United States Code, Sections 80a‑1 to 80a‑51, inclusive, as amended.
    "Investment Company" means any issuer (a) whose securities are purchasable only with care funds or trust funds, or both; and (b) which is an open and diversified management company as defined in and registered under the "Investment Company Act of 1940"; and (c) which has entered into an agreement with the Comptroller containing such provisions as the Comptroller by regulation reasonably requires for the proper administration of this Act.
    "Municipal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled or managed by any city, village, incorporated town, township, county, or other municipal corporation, political subdivision, or instrumentality thereof authorized by law to own, operate, or manage a cemetery.
    "Niche" means a space in a columbarium used or intended to be used, for inurnment of cremated human remains.
    "Privately operated cemetery" means any entity that offers interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, other than a fraternal, municipal, State, federal or religious cemetery or a family burying ground.
    "Religious cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination, or by any cemetery authority or any corporation administering, or through which is administered, the temporalities of any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination.
    "State or federal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any State or the federal government or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
    "Entombment right" means the right to place individual human remains or individual cremated human remains in a specific mausoleum crypt or lawn crypt selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Interment right" means the right to place individual human remains or cremated human remains in a specific underground location selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Inurnment right" means the right to place individual cremated human remains in a specific niche selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Lawn crypt" means a permanent underground crypt usually constructed of reinforced concrete or similar material installed in multiple units for the entombment of human remains.
    "Imputed value" means the retail price of comparable rights within the same or similar area of the cemetery.
(Source: P.A. 92‑651, eff. 7‑11‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2a. Powers and duties of cemetery authorities; cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds.
    (a) With respect to cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds, a cemetery authority shall be responsible for the performance of:
        (1) the care and maintenance of the cemetery
     property it owns; and
        (2) the opening and closing of all graves, crypts,
     or niches for human remains in any cemetery property it owns.
    (b) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make available for inspection, and upon reasonable request provide a copy of, its rules and regulations and its current prices of interment, inurnment, or entombment rights.
    (c) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may, from time to time as land in its cemetery may be required for burial purposes, survey and subdivide those lands and make and file in its office a map thereof delineating the lots or plots, avenues, paths, alleys, and walks and their respective designations. The cemetery authority shall open the map to public inspection. The cemetery authority may make available a copy of the overall map upon written request and payment of reasonable photocopy fees. Any unsold lots, plots or parts thereof, in which there are not human remains, may be resurveyed and altered in shape or size, and properly designated on such map. Nothing contained in this subsection, however, shall prevent the cemetery authority from enlarging an interment right by selling to the owner thereof the excess space next to such interment right and permitting interments therein, provided reasonable access to such interment right and to adjoining interment rights is not thereby eliminated. The Comptroller may waive any or all of the requirements of this subsection (c) for good cause shown.
    (d) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall keep a record of every interment, entombment, and inurnment in the cemetery. The record shall include the deceased's name, age, and date of burial, when these particulars can be conveniently obtained, and the lot, plot, or section where the human remains are interred, entombed, or inurned. The record shall be open to public inspection consistent with State and federal law. The cemetery authority shall make available, consistent with State and federal law, a true copy of the record upon written request and payment of reasonable copy costs.
    (e) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall provide access to the cemetery under the cemetery authority's reasonable rules and regulations.
(Source: P.A. 92‑419, eff. 1‑1‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3. Gifts and contributions ‑ Trust funds. Any cemetery authority is hereby authorized and empowered to accept any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, any sum of money, funds, securities or property of any kind, or the income or avails thereof, and to establish a trust fund to hold the same in perpetuity for the care of its cemetery, or for the care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche in its cemetery; or for the special care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche or of any family mausoleum or memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery.
    The cemetery authority shall act as trustee of all amounts received for care until they have been deposited into the trust fund established under this Section. The cemetery authority may continue to be the trustee of up to $500,000 of care funds that have been deposited into the trust fund, but the cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for any amount of care funds held in trust in excess of that $500,000. A cemetery authority holding care funds in excess of $500,000 on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 shall have 36 months to retain an independent trustee for the excess amounts held in trust; any other cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for its care funds in excess of $500,000 as soon as may be practical.
    No gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution shall be invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty as to the beneficiary designated in the instrument creating the gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution. If any gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution consists of non‑income producing property, the cemetery authority accepting it is authorized and empowered to sell such property and to invest the funds obtained in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph.
    The care funds authorized by this Section and provided for in Section 4 of this Act shall be held intact and, unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other payment, as to investments made after June 11, 1951 the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority, in acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling and managing property for any such trust, shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority is authorized to acquire and retain every kind of property, real, personal or mixed, and every kind of investment, including specifically but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds, debentures and other corporate obligations, preferred or common stocks and real estate mortgages, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence acquire or retain for their own account. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee is authorized to retain property properly acquired, without limitation as to time and without regard to its suitability for original purchase. The care funds authorized by this Section may be commingled with other trust funds received by such cemetery authority for the care of its cemetery or for the care or special care of any lot, grave, crypt, niche, private mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery, whether received by gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other conveyance heretofore or hereafter made to such cemetery authority. Such care funds may be invested with common trust funds as provided in The Common Trust Fund Act. The net income only from the investment of such care funds shall be allocated and used for the purposes specified in the transaction by which the principal was established in the proportion that each contribution bears to the entire sum invested.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3a. Loans to private cemeteries. Except upon written approval of the Comptroller, no loan or investment of any care funds by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee under this Act shall be made:
        (1) To any officer, director, trustee, or party
     owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority, or to any firm, corporation, association or partnership in which any officer, director, trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has a controlling interest.
        (2) On or in any real estate, or in any note, bond,
     mortgage or deed of trust in which any officer, director trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has any financial interest.
        (3) On or in any unproductive real estate or real
     estate outside of this state or in permanent improvements of the cemetery or any of its facilities, unless specifically authorized by the instrument whereby the principal fund was created. And no commission or brokerage fee for the purchase or sale of any property shall be paid in excess of that usual and customary at the time and in the locality where such purchase or sale is made and all such commissions and brokerage fees shall be fully reported in the next annual statement of such cemetery authority, trustee or licensee.
    Before a loan or investment request is submitted to the Comptroller for approval, the loan or investment request must be duly approved by resolution of the board of directors of the cemetery authority and by the trustee of the care fund.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477; 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/4)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.4)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 4. Care funds; deposits; investments. Whenever a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery accepts care funds, either in connection with the sale or giving away at an imputed value of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, or in pursuance of a contract, or whenever, as a condition precedent to the purchase or acceptance of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, such cemetery authority requires the establishment of a care fund or a deposit in an already existing care fund, then such cemetery authority shall execute and deliver to the person from whom received an instrument in writing which shall specifically state: (a) the nature and extent of the care to be furnished, and (b) that such care shall be furnished only in so far as the net income derived from the amount deposited in trust will permit (the income from the amount so deposited, less necessary expenditures of administering the trust, shall be deemed the net income), and (c) that not less than the following amounts will be set aside and deposited in trust:
        1. For interment rights, $1 per square foot of the
     space sold or 15% of the sales price or imputed value, whichever is the greater, with a minimum of $25 for each individual interment right.
        2. For entombment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $25 for each individual entombment right.
        3. For inurnment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $15 for each individual inurnment right.
        4. For any transfer of interment rights, entombment
     rights, or inurnment rights recorded in the records of the cemetery authority, excepting only transfers between members of the immediate family of the transferor, a minimum of $25 for each such right transferred. For the purposes of this paragraph "immediate family of the transferor" means the spouse, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and siblings of the transferor.
        5. Upon an interment, entombment, or inurnment in a
     grave, crypt, or niche in which rights of interment, entombment, or inurnment were originally acquired from a cemetery authority prior to January 1, 1948, a minimum of $25 for each such right exercised.
        6. For the special care of any lot, grave, crypt, or
     niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, the full amount received.
    Such setting aside and deposit shall be made by such cemetery authority not later than 30 days after the close of the month in which the cemetery authority gave away for an imputed value or received the final payment on the purchase price of interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, or received the final payment for the general or special care of a lot, grave, crypt or niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker or monument; and such amounts shall be held by the trustee of the care funds of such cemetery authority in trust in perpetuity for the specific purposes stated in said written instrument. For all care funds received by a cemetery authority, except for care funds received by a cemetery authority pursuant to a specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or contract that are subject to investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, and except for care funds otherwise subject to a trust agreement executed by a person or persons responsible for transferring the specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, or legacy to the cemetery authority that contains investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, the cemetery authority may, without the necessity of having to obtain prior approval from any court in this State, designate a new trustee in accordance with this Act and invest the care funds in accordance with this Section, notwithstanding any contrary limitation contained in the trust agreement.
    Any such cemetery authority engaged in selling or giving away at an imputed value interment rights, entombment rights or inurnment rights, in conjunction with the selling or giving away at an imputed value any other merchandise or services not covered by this Act, shall be prohibited from increasing the sales price or imputed value of those items not requiring a care fund deposit under this Act with the purpose of allocating a lesser sales price or imputed value to items that require a care fund deposit.
    In the event any sale that would require a deposit to such cemetery authority's care fund is made by a cemetery authority on an installment basis, and the installment contract is factored, discounted, or sold to a third party, the cemetery authority shall deposit the amount due to the care fund within 30 days after the close of the month in which the installment contract was factored, discounted, or sold. If, subsequent to such deposit, the purchaser defaults on the contract such that no care fund deposit on that contract would have been required, the cemetery authority may apply the amount deposited as a credit against future required deposits.
    The trust authorized by this Section shall be a single purpose trust fund. In the event of the seller's bankruptcy, insolvency, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or an adverse judgment, the trust funds shall not be available to any creditor as assets of the cemetery authority or to pay any expenses of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, but shall be retained intact to provide for the future maintenance of the cemetery. Except in an action by the Comptroller to revoke a license issued pursuant to this Act and for creation of a receivership as provided in this Act, the trust shall not be subject to judgment, execution, garnishment, attachment, or other seizure by process in bankruptcy or otherwise, nor to sale, pledge, mortgage, or other alienation, and shall not be assignable except as approved by the Comptroller. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly are intended to clarify existing law regarding the inability of licensees to pledge the trust.
(Source: P.A. 91‑7, eff. 6‑1‑99. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/5)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.5)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 5. No cemetery authority, nor any agent, servant, or employee of it, nor any other person, shall advertise, represent, guarantee, promise, or contract that perpetual care, permanent care, perpetual or permanent maintenance, care forever, continuous care, eternal care, everlasting care, or any similar or equivalent care, or care for any number of years of any cemetery or of any lot, grave, crypt or niche, or of any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, will be furnished: Provided, however, that any cemetery authority may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be furnished from the net income only derived from funds held in trust as provided in Section 3 of this Act; and may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be given any lot, grave, crypt, or niche, or any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument for any definite number of years, such care to be furnished under a contract providing that the principal of the amount paid under the contract shall be used to furnish the care and further providing specifically the care to be given and the number of years for which it is to be given.
(Source: Laws 1947, p. 338. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/6)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.6)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 6. The trust funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, and any funds received under a contract to furnish care of a burial space for a definite number of years, shall be held for the general benefit of the lot owners and are exempt from taxation. The trust funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, are exempt from the operation of all laws of mortmain and the laws against perpetuities and accumulations.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1188. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/7)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.7)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 7. License to hold care funds. No cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act without securing from the Comptroller a license to hold the funds. The license shall be secured by the cemetery authority whether the cemetery authority is serving as trustee of the care funds or whether the care funds are held by an independent trustee.
    All licenses issued under the provisions of this Act by the Department of Financial Institutions prior to the time the administration of this Act was transferred to the Comptroller shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered or revoked as provided in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8. Every cemetery authority shall register with the Comptroller upon forms furnished by him or her. Such registration statement shall state whether the cemetery authority claims that the cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by it is a fraternal cemetery, municipal, State, or federal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and shall state the date of incorporation if a corporation and whether incorporated under general or private act of the legislature. Such registration statement shall be accompanied by a fee of $5. Such fee shall be paid to the Comptroller and no registration statement shall be accepted by him without the payment of such fee. Every cemetery authority that is not required to file an annual report under this Act shall bear the responsibility of informing the Comptroller whenever a change takes place regarding status of cemetery, name of contact person, and that person's address and telephone number.
    Upon receipt of a registration statement, if a claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and the Comptroller shall determine that such cemetery is not a fraternal cemetery, a municipal cemetery, or a religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the Comptroller shall notify the cemetery authority making the claim of such determination; provided, however, that no such claim shall be denied until the cemetery authority making such claim has had at least 10 days' notice of a hearing thereon and an opportunity to be heard. When any such claim is denied, the Comptroller shall within 20 days thereafter prepare and keep on file in his office the transcript of the evidence taken and a written order or decision of denial of such claim and shall send by United States mail a copy of such order or decision of denial to the cemetery authority making such claim within 5 days after the filing in his office of such order, finding or decision. A review of any such order, finding or decision may be had as provided in the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended.
    Where no claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery or religious cemetery or family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the registration statement shall be accompanied by a fidelity bond in the amount required by Section 9 of this Act. Upon receipt of such application, statement and bond, the Comptroller shall issue a license to accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act to each cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery. However, the Comptroller shall issue a license without the filing of a bond where the filing of a bond is excused by Section 18 of this Act.
    The license issued by the Comptroller shall remain in full force and effect until it is surrendered by the licensee or revoked by the Comptroller as hereinafter provided.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8.1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8.1. Any cemetery authority operating a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, State or federal cemetery, religious cemetery or family burying ground which has been licensed under the provisions of this Act may have such license terminated and may cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act if such cemetery authority:
        (1) applies in writing to the Comptroller setting
     out facts to show the kind of cemetery operated;
        (2) sets out facts in such written application
     identifying the license under which such authority is operating;
        (3) requests that such license be relinquished and
     terminated by the Comptroller.
    Upon receipt of such statement, the Comptroller shall determine whether to grant such request. If the Comptroller grants the request to terminate, the license shall be relinquished and such cemetery authority shall cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act. The Comptroller shall not deny such request without first granting a hearing to the cemetery authority. The hearing and review provisions of Sections 8 and 20 of this Act shall apply to the hearing provided for in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/9)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.9)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 9. Application for license.
    (a) Prior to the acceptance of care funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act or the sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a licensed cemetery authority, a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make application to the Comptroller for a license to hold the funds.
    In the case of a sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the cemetery authority, the prior license shall remain in effect until the Comptroller issues a new license to the newly‑controlled cemetery authority as provided in Section 15b. Upon issuance of the new license, the prior license shall be deemed surrendered if the licensee has agreed to the sale and transfer and has consented to the surrender of the license. A sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a cemetery authority to an immediate family member is not considered a transfer of the controlling interest for purposes of this Section.
    (b) Applications for license shall be filed with the Comptroller. Applications shall be in writing under oath, signed by the applicant, and in the form furnished by the Comptroller. The form furnished by the Comptroller shall enable a cemetery authority to apply for license of multiple cemetery locations within a single license application. A check or money order in the amount of $25 per license seeking to be issued under the application, payable to: Comptroller, State of Illinois, shall be included. Each application shall contain the following:
        (1) the full name and address (both of residence and
     of place of business) of the applicant, if an individual; of every member, if the applicant is a partnership or association; of every officer or director, if the applicant is a corporation; and of any party owning 10% or more of the cemetery authority, and the full name and address of the parent company, if any;
        (2) a detailed statement of the applicant's assets
     and liabilities;
        (2.1) the name, address, and legal boundaries of
     each cemetery for which the care funds shall be entrusted and at which books, accounts, and records shall be available for examination by the Comptroller as required by Section 13 of this Act;
        (3) as to the name of each individual person listed
     under (1) above, a detailed statement of each person's business experience for the 10 years immediately preceding the application; the present and previous connection, if any, of each person with any other cemetery or cemetery authority; whether each person has ever been convicted of any felony or has ever been convicted of any misdemeanor of which an essential element is fraud or has been involved in any civil litigation in which a judgment has been entered against him or her based on fraud; whether each person is currently a defendant in any lawsuit in which the complaint against the person is based upon fraud; whether such person has failed to satisfy any enforceable judgment entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in any civil proceedings against such individual;
        (4) the total amount in trust and now available from
     sales of lots, graves, crypts or niches where part of the sale price has been placed in trust; the amount of money placed in the care funds of each applicant; the amount set aside in care funds from the sale of lots, graves, crypts and niches for the general care of the cemetery and the amount available for that purpose; the amount received in trust by special agreement for special care and the amount available for that purpose; the amount of principal applicable to trust funds received by the applicant; and
        (5) any other information that the Comptroller may
     reasonably require in order to determine the qualifications of the applicant to be licensed under this Act.
    Such information shall be furnished whether the care funds are held by the app

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Statutes > Illinois > Chapter760 > 2136

    (760 ILCS 100/1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.1)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cemetery Care Act.
(Source: P.A. 90‑47, eff. 1‑1‑98. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases used in this Act, for the purpose of this Act, have the following meanings:
    "Person" means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity.
    "Trustee" means any person authorized to hold funds under this Act.
    "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of Illinois.
    "Care" means the maintenance of a cemetery and of the lots, graves, crypts, niches, family mausoleums, memorials, and markers therein; including: (i) the cutting and trimming of lawn, shrubs, and trees at reasonable intervals; (ii) keeping in repair the drains, water lines, roads, buildings, fences, and other structures, in keeping with a well maintained cemetery; (iii) maintenance of machinery, tools, and equipment for such care; (iv) compensation of employees, payment of insurance premiums, and reasonable payments for employees pension and other benefits plans; and (v) to the extent surplus income from the care fund is available, the payment of overhead expenses necessary for such purposes and for maintaining necessary records of lot ownership, transfers, and burials.
    "Care funds" as distinguished from receipts from annual charges or gifts for current or annual care, means any realty or personalty impressed with a trust by the terms of any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, accepted by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee, agent or custodian for the same, under Section 3 of this Act, and the amounts set aside under Section 4 of this Act, and any income accumulated therefrom, where legally so directed by the terms of the transaction by which the principal was established.
    "Cemetery" means any land or structure in this State dedicated to and used, or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains.
    "Cemetery authority" means any person, firm, corporation, trustee, partnership, association or municipality owning, operating, controlling or managing a cemetery or holding lands for burial grounds or burial purposes in this State.
    "Mausoleum crypt" means a space in a mausoleum used or intended to be used, above or under ground, to entomb human remains.
    "Family burying ground" means a cemetery in which no lots are sold to the public and in which interments are restricted to a group of persons related to each other by blood or marriage.
    "Fraternal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any fraternal organization or auxiliary organizations thereof, in which the sale of lots, graves, crypts or niches is restricted principally to its members.
    "Grave" means a space of ground in a cemetery, used, or intended to be used, for burial.
    "Investment Company Act of 1940" means Title 15, of the United States Code, Sections 80a‑1 to 80a‑51, inclusive, as amended.
    "Investment Company" means any issuer (a) whose securities are purchasable only with care funds or trust funds, or both; and (b) which is an open and diversified management company as defined in and registered under the "Investment Company Act of 1940"; and (c) which has entered into an agreement with the Comptroller containing such provisions as the Comptroller by regulation reasonably requires for the proper administration of this Act.
    "Municipal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled or managed by any city, village, incorporated town, township, county, or other municipal corporation, political subdivision, or instrumentality thereof authorized by law to own, operate, or manage a cemetery.
    "Niche" means a space in a columbarium used or intended to be used, for inurnment of cremated human remains.
    "Privately operated cemetery" means any entity that offers interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, other than a fraternal, municipal, State, federal or religious cemetery or a family burying ground.
    "Religious cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination, or by any cemetery authority or any corporation administering, or through which is administered, the temporalities of any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination.
    "State or federal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any State or the federal government or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
    "Entombment right" means the right to place individual human remains or individual cremated human remains in a specific mausoleum crypt or lawn crypt selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Interment right" means the right to place individual human remains or cremated human remains in a specific underground location selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Inurnment right" means the right to place individual cremated human remains in a specific niche selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Lawn crypt" means a permanent underground crypt usually constructed of reinforced concrete or similar material installed in multiple units for the entombment of human remains.
    "Imputed value" means the retail price of comparable rights within the same or similar area of the cemetery.
(Source: P.A. 92‑651, eff. 7‑11‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2a. Powers and duties of cemetery authorities; cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds.
    (a) With respect to cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds, a cemetery authority shall be responsible for the performance of:
        (1) the care and maintenance of the cemetery
     property it owns; and
        (2) the opening and closing of all graves, crypts,
     or niches for human remains in any cemetery property it owns.
    (b) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make available for inspection, and upon reasonable request provide a copy of, its rules and regulations and its current prices of interment, inurnment, or entombment rights.
    (c) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may, from time to time as land in its cemetery may be required for burial purposes, survey and subdivide those lands and make and file in its office a map thereof delineating the lots or plots, avenues, paths, alleys, and walks and their respective designations. The cemetery authority shall open the map to public inspection. The cemetery authority may make available a copy of the overall map upon written request and payment of reasonable photocopy fees. Any unsold lots, plots or parts thereof, in which there are not human remains, may be resurveyed and altered in shape or size, and properly designated on such map. Nothing contained in this subsection, however, shall prevent the cemetery authority from enlarging an interment right by selling to the owner thereof the excess space next to such interment right and permitting interments therein, provided reasonable access to such interment right and to adjoining interment rights is not thereby eliminated. The Comptroller may waive any or all of the requirements of this subsection (c) for good cause shown.
    (d) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall keep a record of every interment, entombment, and inurnment in the cemetery. The record shall include the deceased's name, age, and date of burial, when these particulars can be conveniently obtained, and the lot, plot, or section where the human remains are interred, entombed, or inurned. The record shall be open to public inspection consistent with State and federal law. The cemetery authority shall make available, consistent with State and federal law, a true copy of the record upon written request and payment of reasonable copy costs.
    (e) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall provide access to the cemetery under the cemetery authority's reasonable rules and regulations.
(Source: P.A. 92‑419, eff. 1‑1‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3. Gifts and contributions ‑ Trust funds. Any cemetery authority is hereby authorized and empowered to accept any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, any sum of money, funds, securities or property of any kind, or the income or avails thereof, and to establish a trust fund to hold the same in perpetuity for the care of its cemetery, or for the care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche in its cemetery; or for the special care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche or of any family mausoleum or memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery.
    The cemetery authority shall act as trustee of all amounts received for care until they have been deposited into the trust fund established under this Section. The cemetery authority may continue to be the trustee of up to $500,000 of care funds that have been deposited into the trust fund, but the cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for any amount of care funds held in trust in excess of that $500,000. A cemetery authority holding care funds in excess of $500,000 on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 shall have 36 months to retain an independent trustee for the excess amounts held in trust; any other cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for its care funds in excess of $500,000 as soon as may be practical.
    No gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution shall be invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty as to the beneficiary designated in the instrument creating the gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution. If any gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution consists of non‑income producing property, the cemetery authority accepting it is authorized and empowered to sell such property and to invest the funds obtained in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph.
    The care funds authorized by this Section and provided for in Section 4 of this Act shall be held intact and, unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other payment, as to investments made after June 11, 1951 the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority, in acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling and managing property for any such trust, shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority is authorized to acquire and retain every kind of property, real, personal or mixed, and every kind of investment, including specifically but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds, debentures and other corporate obligations, preferred or common stocks and real estate mortgages, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence acquire or retain for their own account. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee is authorized to retain property properly acquired, without limitation as to time and without regard to its suitability for original purchase. The care funds authorized by this Section may be commingled with other trust funds received by such cemetery authority for the care of its cemetery or for the care or special care of any lot, grave, crypt, niche, private mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery, whether received by gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other conveyance heretofore or hereafter made to such cemetery authority. Such care funds may be invested with common trust funds as provided in The Common Trust Fund Act. The net income only from the investment of such care funds shall be allocated and used for the purposes specified in the transaction by which the principal was established in the proportion that each contribution bears to the entire sum invested.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3a. Loans to private cemeteries. Except upon written approval of the Comptroller, no loan or investment of any care funds by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee under this Act shall be made:
        (1) To any officer, director, trustee, or party
     owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority, or to any firm, corporation, association or partnership in which any officer, director, trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has a controlling interest.
        (2) On or in any real estate, or in any note, bond,
     mortgage or deed of trust in which any officer, director trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has any financial interest.
        (3) On or in any unproductive real estate or real
     estate outside of this state or in permanent improvements of the cemetery or any of its facilities, unless specifically authorized by the instrument whereby the principal fund was created. And no commission or brokerage fee for the purchase or sale of any property shall be paid in excess of that usual and customary at the time and in the locality where such purchase or sale is made and all such commissions and brokerage fees shall be fully reported in the next annual statement of such cemetery authority, trustee or licensee.
    Before a loan or investment request is submitted to the Comptroller for approval, the loan or investment request must be duly approved by resolution of the board of directors of the cemetery authority and by the trustee of the care fund.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477; 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/4)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.4)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 4. Care funds; deposits; investments. Whenever a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery accepts care funds, either in connection with the sale or giving away at an imputed value of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, or in pursuance of a contract, or whenever, as a condition precedent to the purchase or acceptance of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, such cemetery authority requires the establishment of a care fund or a deposit in an already existing care fund, then such cemetery authority shall execute and deliver to the person from whom received an instrument in writing which shall specifically state: (a) the nature and extent of the care to be furnished, and (b) that such care shall be furnished only in so far as the net income derived from the amount deposited in trust will permit (the income from the amount so deposited, less necessary expenditures of administering the trust, shall be deemed the net income), and (c) that not less than the following amounts will be set aside and deposited in trust:
        1. For interment rights, $1 per square foot of the
     space sold or 15% of the sales price or imputed value, whichever is the greater, with a minimum of $25 for each individual interment right.
        2. For entombment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $25 for each individual entombment right.
        3. For inurnment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $15 for each individual inurnment right.
        4. For any transfer of interment rights, entombment
     rights, or inurnment rights recorded in the records of the cemetery authority, excepting only transfers between members of the immediate family of the transferor, a minimum of $25 for each such right transferred. For the purposes of this paragraph "immediate family of the transferor" means the spouse, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and siblings of the transferor.
        5. Upon an interment, entombment, or inurnment in a
     grave, crypt, or niche in which rights of interment, entombment, or inurnment were originally acquired from a cemetery authority prior to January 1, 1948, a minimum of $25 for each such right exercised.
        6. For the special care of any lot, grave, crypt, or
     niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, the full amount received.
    Such setting aside and deposit shall be made by such cemetery authority not later than 30 days after the close of the month in which the cemetery authority gave away for an imputed value or received the final payment on the purchase price of interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, or received the final payment for the general or special care of a lot, grave, crypt or niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker or monument; and such amounts shall be held by the trustee of the care funds of such cemetery authority in trust in perpetuity for the specific purposes stated in said written instrument. For all care funds received by a cemetery authority, except for care funds received by a cemetery authority pursuant to a specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or contract that are subject to investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, and except for care funds otherwise subject to a trust agreement executed by a person or persons responsible for transferring the specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, or legacy to the cemetery authority that contains investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, the cemetery authority may, without the necessity of having to obtain prior approval from any court in this State, designate a new trustee in accordance with this Act and invest the care funds in accordance with this Section, notwithstanding any contrary limitation contained in the trust agreement.
    Any such cemetery authority engaged in selling or giving away at an imputed value interment rights, entombment rights or inurnment rights, in conjunction with the selling or giving away at an imputed value any other merchandise or services not covered by this Act, shall be prohibited from increasing the sales price or imputed value of those items not requiring a care fund deposit under this Act with the purpose of allocating a lesser sales price or imputed value to items that require a care fund deposit.
    In the event any sale that would require a deposit to such cemetery authority's care fund is made by a cemetery authority on an installment basis, and the installment contract is factored, discounted, or sold to a third party, the cemetery authority shall deposit the amount due to the care fund within 30 days after the close of the month in which the installment contract was factored, discounted, or sold. If, subsequent to such deposit, the purchaser defaults on the contract such that no care fund deposit on that contract would have been required, the cemetery authority may apply the amount deposited as a credit against future required deposits.
    The trust authorized by this Section shall be a single purpose trust fund. In the event of the seller's bankruptcy, insolvency, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or an adverse judgment, the trust funds shall not be available to any creditor as assets of the cemetery authority or to pay any expenses of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, but shall be retained intact to provide for the future maintenance of the cemetery. Except in an action by the Comptroller to revoke a license issued pursuant to this Act and for creation of a receivership as provided in this Act, the trust shall not be subject to judgment, execution, garnishment, attachment, or other seizure by process in bankruptcy or otherwise, nor to sale, pledge, mortgage, or other alienation, and shall not be assignable except as approved by the Comptroller. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly are intended to clarify existing law regarding the inability of licensees to pledge the trust.
(Source: P.A. 91‑7, eff. 6‑1‑99. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/5)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.5)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 5. No cemetery authority, nor any agent, servant, or employee of it, nor any other person, shall advertise, represent, guarantee, promise, or contract that perpetual care, permanent care, perpetual or permanent maintenance, care forever, continuous care, eternal care, everlasting care, or any similar or equivalent care, or care for any number of years of any cemetery or of any lot, grave, crypt or niche, or of any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, will be furnished: Provided, however, that any cemetery authority may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be furnished from the net income only derived from funds held in trust as provided in Section 3 of this Act; and may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be given any lot, grave, crypt, or niche, or any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument for any definite number of years, such care to be furnished under a contract providing that the principal of the amount paid under the contract shall be used to furnish the care and further providing specifically the care to be given and the number of years for which it is to be given.
(Source: Laws 1947, p. 338. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/6)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.6)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 6. The trust funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, and any funds received under a contract to furnish care of a burial space for a definite number of years, shall be held for the general benefit of the lot owners and are exempt from taxation. The trust funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, are exempt from the operation of all laws of mortmain and the laws against perpetuities and accumulations.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1188. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/7)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.7)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 7. License to hold care funds. No cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act without securing from the Comptroller a license to hold the funds. The license shall be secured by the cemetery authority whether the cemetery authority is serving as trustee of the care funds or whether the care funds are held by an independent trustee.
    All licenses issued under the provisions of this Act by the Department of Financial Institutions prior to the time the administration of this Act was transferred to the Comptroller shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered or revoked as provided in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8. Every cemetery authority shall register with the Comptroller upon forms furnished by him or her. Such registration statement shall state whether the cemetery authority claims that the cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by it is a fraternal cemetery, municipal, State, or federal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and shall state the date of incorporation if a corporation and whether incorporated under general or private act of the legislature. Such registration statement shall be accompanied by a fee of $5. Such fee shall be paid to the Comptroller and no registration statement shall be accepted by him without the payment of such fee. Every cemetery authority that is not required to file an annual report under this Act shall bear the responsibility of informing the Comptroller whenever a change takes place regarding status of cemetery, name of contact person, and that person's address and telephone number.
    Upon receipt of a registration statement, if a claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and the Comptroller shall determine that such cemetery is not a fraternal cemetery, a municipal cemetery, or a religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the Comptroller shall notify the cemetery authority making the claim of such determination; provided, however, that no such claim shall be denied until the cemetery authority making such claim has had at least 10 days' notice of a hearing thereon and an opportunity to be heard. When any such claim is denied, the Comptroller shall within 20 days thereafter prepare and keep on file in his office the transcript of the evidence taken and a written order or decision of denial of such claim and shall send by United States mail a copy of such order or decision of denial to the cemetery authority making such claim within 5 days after the filing in his office of such order, finding or decision. A review of any such order, finding or decision may be had as provided in the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended.
    Where no claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery or religious cemetery or family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the registration statement shall be accompanied by a fidelity bond in the amount required by Section 9 of this Act. Upon receipt of such application, statement and bond, the Comptroller shall issue a license to accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act to each cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery. However, the Comptroller shall issue a license without the filing of a bond where the filing of a bond is excused by Section 18 of this Act.
    The license issued by the Comptroller shall remain in full force and effect until it is surrendered by the licensee or revoked by the Comptroller as hereinafter provided.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8.1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8.1. Any cemetery authority operating a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, State or federal cemetery, religious cemetery or family burying ground which has been licensed under the provisions of this Act may have such license terminated and may cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act if such cemetery authority:
        (1) applies in writing to the Comptroller setting
     out facts to show the kind of cemetery operated;
        (2) sets out facts in such written application
     identifying the license under which such authority is operating;
        (3) requests that such license be relinquished and
     terminated by the Comptroller.
    Upon receipt of such statement, the Comptroller shall determine whether to grant such request. If the Comptroller grants the request to terminate, the license shall be relinquished and such cemetery authority shall cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act. The Comptroller shall not deny such request without first granting a hearing to the cemetery authority. The hearing and review provisions of Sections 8 and 20 of this Act shall apply to the hearing provided for in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/9)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.9)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 9. Application for license.
    (a) Prior to the acceptance of care funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act or the sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a licensed cemetery authority, a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make application to the Comptroller for a license to hold the funds.
    In the case of a sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the cemetery authority, the prior license shall remain in effect until the Comptroller issues a new license to the newly‑controlled cemetery authority as provided in Section 15b. Upon issuance of the new license, the prior license shall be deemed surrendered if the licensee has agreed to the sale and transfer and has consented to the surrender of the license. A sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a cemetery authority to an immediate family member is not considered a transfer of the controlling interest for purposes of this Section.
    (b) Applications for license shall be filed with the Comptroller. Applications shall be in writing under oath, signed by the applicant, and in the form furnished by the Comptroller. The form furnished by the Comptroller shall enable a cemetery authority to apply for license of multiple cemetery locations within a single license application. A check or money order in the amount of $25 per license seeking to be issued under the application, payable to: Comptroller, State of Illinois, shall be included. Each application shall contain the following:
        (1) the full name and address (both of residence and
     of place of business) of the applicant, if an individual; of every member, if the applicant is a partnership or association; of every officer or director, if the applicant is a corporation; and of any party owning 10% or more of the cemetery authority, and the full name and address of the parent company, if any;
        (2) a detailed statement of the applicant's assets
     and liabilities;
        (2.1) the name, address, and legal boundaries of
     each cemetery for which the care funds shall be entrusted and at which books, accounts, and records shall be available for examination by the Comptroller as required by Section 13 of this Act;
        (3) as to the name of each individual person listed
     under (1) above, a detailed statement of each person's business experience for the 10 years immediately preceding the application; the present and previous connection, if any, of each person with any other cemetery or cemetery authority; whether each person has ever been convicted of any felony or has ever been convicted of any misdemeanor of which an essential element is fraud or has been involved in any civil litigation in which a judgment has been entered against him or her based on fraud; whether each person is currently a defendant in any lawsuit in which the complaint against the person is based upon fraud; whether such person has failed to satisfy any enforceable judgment entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in any civil proceedings against such individual;
        (4) the total amount in trust and now available from
     sales of lots, graves, crypts or niches where part of the sale price has been placed in trust; the amount of money placed in the care funds of each applicant; the amount set aside in care funds from the sale of lots, graves, crypts and niches for the general care of the cemetery and the amount available for that purpose; the amount received in trust by special agreement for special care and the amount available for that purpose; the amount of principal applicable to trust funds received by the applicant; and
        (5) any other information that the Comptroller may
     reasonably require in order to determine the qualifications of the applicant to be licensed under this Act.
    Such information shall be furnished whether the care funds are held by the app

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    (760 ILCS 100/1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.1)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cemetery Care Act.
(Source: P.A. 90‑47, eff. 1‑1‑98. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases used in this Act, for the purpose of this Act, have the following meanings:
    "Person" means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity.
    "Trustee" means any person authorized to hold funds under this Act.
    "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of Illinois.
    "Care" means the maintenance of a cemetery and of the lots, graves, crypts, niches, family mausoleums, memorials, and markers therein; including: (i) the cutting and trimming of lawn, shrubs, and trees at reasonable intervals; (ii) keeping in repair the drains, water lines, roads, buildings, fences, and other structures, in keeping with a well maintained cemetery; (iii) maintenance of machinery, tools, and equipment for such care; (iv) compensation of employees, payment of insurance premiums, and reasonable payments for employees pension and other benefits plans; and (v) to the extent surplus income from the care fund is available, the payment of overhead expenses necessary for such purposes and for maintaining necessary records of lot ownership, transfers, and burials.
    "Care funds" as distinguished from receipts from annual charges or gifts for current or annual care, means any realty or personalty impressed with a trust by the terms of any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, accepted by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee, agent or custodian for the same, under Section 3 of this Act, and the amounts set aside under Section 4 of this Act, and any income accumulated therefrom, where legally so directed by the terms of the transaction by which the principal was established.
    "Cemetery" means any land or structure in this State dedicated to and used, or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains.
    "Cemetery authority" means any person, firm, corporation, trustee, partnership, association or municipality owning, operating, controlling or managing a cemetery or holding lands for burial grounds or burial purposes in this State.
    "Mausoleum crypt" means a space in a mausoleum used or intended to be used, above or under ground, to entomb human remains.
    "Family burying ground" means a cemetery in which no lots are sold to the public and in which interments are restricted to a group of persons related to each other by blood or marriage.
    "Fraternal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any fraternal organization or auxiliary organizations thereof, in which the sale of lots, graves, crypts or niches is restricted principally to its members.
    "Grave" means a space of ground in a cemetery, used, or intended to be used, for burial.
    "Investment Company Act of 1940" means Title 15, of the United States Code, Sections 80a‑1 to 80a‑51, inclusive, as amended.
    "Investment Company" means any issuer (a) whose securities are purchasable only with care funds or trust funds, or both; and (b) which is an open and diversified management company as defined in and registered under the "Investment Company Act of 1940"; and (c) which has entered into an agreement with the Comptroller containing such provisions as the Comptroller by regulation reasonably requires for the proper administration of this Act.
    "Municipal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled or managed by any city, village, incorporated town, township, county, or other municipal corporation, political subdivision, or instrumentality thereof authorized by law to own, operate, or manage a cemetery.
    "Niche" means a space in a columbarium used or intended to be used, for inurnment of cremated human remains.
    "Privately operated cemetery" means any entity that offers interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, other than a fraternal, municipal, State, federal or religious cemetery or a family burying ground.
    "Religious cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination, or by any cemetery authority or any corporation administering, or through which is administered, the temporalities of any recognized church, religious society, association or denomination.
    "State or federal cemetery" means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any State or the federal government or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
    "Entombment right" means the right to place individual human remains or individual cremated human remains in a specific mausoleum crypt or lawn crypt selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Interment right" means the right to place individual human remains or cremated human remains in a specific underground location selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Inurnment right" means the right to place individual cremated human remains in a specific niche selected by the consumer for use as a final resting place.
    "Lawn crypt" means a permanent underground crypt usually constructed of reinforced concrete or similar material installed in multiple units for the entombment of human remains.
    "Imputed value" means the retail price of comparable rights within the same or similar area of the cemetery.
(Source: P.A. 92‑651, eff. 7‑11‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/2a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.2a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 2a. Powers and duties of cemetery authorities; cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds.
    (a) With respect to cemetery property maintained by cemetery care funds, a cemetery authority shall be responsible for the performance of:
        (1) the care and maintenance of the cemetery
     property it owns; and
        (2) the opening and closing of all graves, crypts,
     or niches for human remains in any cemetery property it owns.
    (b) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make available for inspection, and upon reasonable request provide a copy of, its rules and regulations and its current prices of interment, inurnment, or entombment rights.
    (c) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may, from time to time as land in its cemetery may be required for burial purposes, survey and subdivide those lands and make and file in its office a map thereof delineating the lots or plots, avenues, paths, alleys, and walks and their respective designations. The cemetery authority shall open the map to public inspection. The cemetery authority may make available a copy of the overall map upon written request and payment of reasonable photocopy fees. Any unsold lots, plots or parts thereof, in which there are not human remains, may be resurveyed and altered in shape or size, and properly designated on such map. Nothing contained in this subsection, however, shall prevent the cemetery authority from enlarging an interment right by selling to the owner thereof the excess space next to such interment right and permitting interments therein, provided reasonable access to such interment right and to adjoining interment rights is not thereby eliminated. The Comptroller may waive any or all of the requirements of this subsection (c) for good cause shown.
    (d) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall keep a record of every interment, entombment, and inurnment in the cemetery. The record shall include the deceased's name, age, and date of burial, when these particulars can be conveniently obtained, and the lot, plot, or section where the human remains are interred, entombed, or inurned. The record shall be open to public inspection consistent with State and federal law. The cemetery authority shall make available, consistent with State and federal law, a true copy of the record upon written request and payment of reasonable copy costs.
    (e) A cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall provide access to the cemetery under the cemetery authority's reasonable rules and regulations.
(Source: P.A. 92‑419, eff. 1‑1‑02. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3. Gifts and contributions ‑ Trust funds. Any cemetery authority is hereby authorized and empowered to accept any gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or pursuant to contract, any sum of money, funds, securities or property of any kind, or the income or avails thereof, and to establish a trust fund to hold the same in perpetuity for the care of its cemetery, or for the care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche in its cemetery; or for the special care of any lot, grave, crypt or niche or of any family mausoleum or memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery.
    The cemetery authority shall act as trustee of all amounts received for care until they have been deposited into the trust fund established under this Section. The cemetery authority may continue to be the trustee of up to $500,000 of care funds that have been deposited into the trust fund, but the cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for any amount of care funds held in trust in excess of that $500,000. A cemetery authority holding care funds in excess of $500,000 on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 shall have 36 months to retain an independent trustee for the excess amounts held in trust; any other cemetery authority must retain an independent trustee for its care funds in excess of $500,000 as soon as may be practical.
    No gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution shall be invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty as to the beneficiary designated in the instrument creating the gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution. If any gift, grant, legacy, payment or other contribution consists of non‑income producing property, the cemetery authority accepting it is authorized and empowered to sell such property and to invest the funds obtained in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph.
    The care funds authorized by this Section and provided for in Section 4 of this Act shall be held intact and, unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other payment, as to investments made after June 11, 1951 the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority, in acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling and managing property for any such trust, shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee of the care funds of the cemetery authority is authorized to acquire and retain every kind of property, real, personal or mixed, and every kind of investment, including specifically but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds, debentures and other corporate obligations, preferred or common stocks and real estate mortgages, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence acquire or retain for their own account. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, the trustee is authorized to retain property properly acquired, without limitation as to time and without regard to its suitability for original purchase. The care funds authorized by this Section may be commingled with other trust funds received by such cemetery authority for the care of its cemetery or for the care or special care of any lot, grave, crypt, niche, private mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument in its cemetery, whether received by gift, grant, legacy, contribution, payment, contract or other conveyance heretofore or hereafter made to such cemetery authority. Such care funds may be invested with common trust funds as provided in The Common Trust Fund Act. The net income only from the investment of such care funds shall be allocated and used for the purposes specified in the transaction by which the principal was established in the proportion that each contribution bears to the entire sum invested.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/3a)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.3a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 3a. Loans to private cemeteries. Except upon written approval of the Comptroller, no loan or investment of any care funds by any cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery, or by any trustee or licensee under this Act shall be made:
        (1) To any officer, director, trustee, or party
     owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority, or to any firm, corporation, association or partnership in which any officer, director, trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has a controlling interest.
        (2) On or in any real estate, or in any note, bond,
     mortgage or deed of trust in which any officer, director trustee, or party owning 10% or more of such cemetery authority or licensee has any financial interest.
        (3) On or in any unproductive real estate or real
     estate outside of this state or in permanent improvements of the cemetery or any of its facilities, unless specifically authorized by the instrument whereby the principal fund was created. And no commission or brokerage fee for the purchase or sale of any property shall be paid in excess of that usual and customary at the time and in the locality where such purchase or sale is made and all such commissions and brokerage fees shall be fully reported in the next annual statement of such cemetery authority, trustee or licensee.
    Before a loan or investment request is submitted to the Comptroller for approval, the loan or investment request must be duly approved by resolution of the board of directors of the cemetery authority and by the trustee of the care fund.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477; 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/4)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.4)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 4. Care funds; deposits; investments. Whenever a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery accepts care funds, either in connection with the sale or giving away at an imputed value of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, or in pursuance of a contract, or whenever, as a condition precedent to the purchase or acceptance of an interment right, entombment right or inurnment right, such cemetery authority requires the establishment of a care fund or a deposit in an already existing care fund, then such cemetery authority shall execute and deliver to the person from whom received an instrument in writing which shall specifically state: (a) the nature and extent of the care to be furnished, and (b) that such care shall be furnished only in so far as the net income derived from the amount deposited in trust will permit (the income from the amount so deposited, less necessary expenditures of administering the trust, shall be deemed the net income), and (c) that not less than the following amounts will be set aside and deposited in trust:
        1. For interment rights, $1 per square foot of the
     space sold or 15% of the sales price or imputed value, whichever is the greater, with a minimum of $25 for each individual interment right.
        2. For entombment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $25 for each individual entombment right.
        3. For inurnment rights, not less than 10% of the
     sales price or imputed value with a minimum of $15 for each individual inurnment right.
        4. For any transfer of interment rights, entombment
     rights, or inurnment rights recorded in the records of the cemetery authority, excepting only transfers between members of the immediate family of the transferor, a minimum of $25 for each such right transferred. For the purposes of this paragraph "immediate family of the transferor" means the spouse, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and siblings of the transferor.
        5. Upon an interment, entombment, or inurnment in a
     grave, crypt, or niche in which rights of interment, entombment, or inurnment were originally acquired from a cemetery authority prior to January 1, 1948, a minimum of $25 for each such right exercised.
        6. For the special care of any lot, grave, crypt, or
     niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, the full amount received.
    Such setting aside and deposit shall be made by such cemetery authority not later than 30 days after the close of the month in which the cemetery authority gave away for an imputed value or received the final payment on the purchase price of interment rights, entombment rights, or inurnment rights, or received the final payment for the general or special care of a lot, grave, crypt or niche or of a family mausoleum, memorial, marker or monument; and such amounts shall be held by the trustee of the care funds of such cemetery authority in trust in perpetuity for the specific purposes stated in said written instrument. For all care funds received by a cemetery authority, except for care funds received by a cemetery authority pursuant to a specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, legacy, or contract that are subject to investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, and except for care funds otherwise subject to a trust agreement executed by a person or persons responsible for transferring the specific gift, grant, contribution, payment, or legacy to the cemetery authority that contains investment restrictions more restrictive than the investment provisions set forth in this Act, the cemetery authority may, without the necessity of having to obtain prior approval from any court in this State, designate a new trustee in accordance with this Act and invest the care funds in accordance with this Section, notwithstanding any contrary limitation contained in the trust agreement.
    Any such cemetery authority engaged in selling or giving away at an imputed value interment rights, entombment rights or inurnment rights, in conjunction with the selling or giving away at an imputed value any other merchandise or services not covered by this Act, shall be prohibited from increasing the sales price or imputed value of those items not requiring a care fund deposit under this Act with the purpose of allocating a lesser sales price or imputed value to items that require a care fund deposit.
    In the event any sale that would require a deposit to such cemetery authority's care fund is made by a cemetery authority on an installment basis, and the installment contract is factored, discounted, or sold to a third party, the cemetery authority shall deposit the amount due to the care fund within 30 days after the close of the month in which the installment contract was factored, discounted, or sold. If, subsequent to such deposit, the purchaser defaults on the contract such that no care fund deposit on that contract would have been required, the cemetery authority may apply the amount deposited as a credit against future required deposits.
    The trust authorized by this Section shall be a single purpose trust fund. In the event of the seller's bankruptcy, insolvency, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or an adverse judgment, the trust funds shall not be available to any creditor as assets of the cemetery authority or to pay any expenses of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, but shall be retained intact to provide for the future maintenance of the cemetery. Except in an action by the Comptroller to revoke a license issued pursuant to this Act and for creation of a receivership as provided in this Act, the trust shall not be subject to judgment, execution, garnishment, attachment, or other seizure by process in bankruptcy or otherwise, nor to sale, pledge, mortgage, or other alienation, and shall not be assignable except as approved by the Comptroller. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly are intended to clarify existing law regarding the inability of licensees to pledge the trust.
(Source: P.A. 91‑7, eff. 6‑1‑99. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/5)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.5)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 5. No cemetery authority, nor any agent, servant, or employee of it, nor any other person, shall advertise, represent, guarantee, promise, or contract that perpetual care, permanent care, perpetual or permanent maintenance, care forever, continuous care, eternal care, everlasting care, or any similar or equivalent care, or care for any number of years of any cemetery or of any lot, grave, crypt or niche, or of any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument, will be furnished: Provided, however, that any cemetery authority may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be furnished from the net income only derived from funds held in trust as provided in Section 3 of this Act; and may advertise, represent, guarantee, promise or contract that care will be given any lot, grave, crypt, or niche, or any family mausoleum, memorial, marker, or monument for any definite number of years, such care to be furnished under a contract providing that the principal of the amount paid under the contract shall be used to furnish the care and further providing specifically the care to be given and the number of years for which it is to be given.
(Source: Laws 1947, p. 338. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/6)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.6)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 6. The trust funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, and any funds received under a contract to furnish care of a burial space for a definite number of years, shall be held for the general benefit of the lot owners and are exempt from taxation. The trust funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, and the income therefrom, are exempt from the operation of all laws of mortmain and the laws against perpetuities and accumulations.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1188. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/7)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.7)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 7. License to hold care funds. No cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery may accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act without securing from the Comptroller a license to hold the funds. The license shall be secured by the cemetery authority whether the cemetery authority is serving as trustee of the care funds or whether the care funds are held by an independent trustee.
    All licenses issued under the provisions of this Act by the Department of Financial Institutions prior to the time the administration of this Act was transferred to the Comptroller shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered or revoked as provided in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89‑615, eff. 8‑9‑96. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8. Every cemetery authority shall register with the Comptroller upon forms furnished by him or her. Such registration statement shall state whether the cemetery authority claims that the cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by it is a fraternal cemetery, municipal, State, or federal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and shall state the date of incorporation if a corporation and whether incorporated under general or private act of the legislature. Such registration statement shall be accompanied by a fee of $5. Such fee shall be paid to the Comptroller and no registration statement shall be accepted by him without the payment of such fee. Every cemetery authority that is not required to file an annual report under this Act shall bear the responsibility of informing the Comptroller whenever a change takes place regarding status of cemetery, name of contact person, and that person's address and telephone number.
    Upon receipt of a registration statement, if a claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, or religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, and the Comptroller shall determine that such cemetery is not a fraternal cemetery, a municipal cemetery, or a religious cemetery, or a family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the Comptroller shall notify the cemetery authority making the claim of such determination; provided, however, that no such claim shall be denied until the cemetery authority making such claim has had at least 10 days' notice of a hearing thereon and an opportunity to be heard. When any such claim is denied, the Comptroller shall within 20 days thereafter prepare and keep on file in his office the transcript of the evidence taken and a written order or decision of denial of such claim and shall send by United States mail a copy of such order or decision of denial to the cemetery authority making such claim within 5 days after the filing in his office of such order, finding or decision. A review of any such order, finding or decision may be had as provided in the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended.
    Where no claim is made that a cemetery is a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery or religious cemetery or family burying ground, as the case may be, as defined in Section 2 of this Act, the registration statement shall be accompanied by a fidelity bond in the amount required by Section 9 of this Act. Upon receipt of such application, statement and bond, the Comptroller shall issue a license to accept the care funds authorized by the provisions of Section 3 of this Act to each cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling or managing a privately operated cemetery. However, the Comptroller shall issue a license without the filing of a bond where the filing of a bond is excused by Section 18 of this Act.
    The license issued by the Comptroller shall remain in full force and effect until it is surrendered by the licensee or revoked by the Comptroller as hereinafter provided.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/8.1)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.8a)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 8.1. Any cemetery authority operating a fraternal cemetery, municipal cemetery, State or federal cemetery, religious cemetery or family burying ground which has been licensed under the provisions of this Act may have such license terminated and may cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act if such cemetery authority:
        (1) applies in writing to the Comptroller setting
     out facts to show the kind of cemetery operated;
        (2) sets out facts in such written application
     identifying the license under which such authority is operating;
        (3) requests that such license be relinquished and
     terminated by the Comptroller.
    Upon receipt of such statement, the Comptroller shall determine whether to grant such request. If the Comptroller grants the request to terminate, the license shall be relinquished and such cemetery authority shall cease to be governed by the licensing provisions of this Act. The Comptroller shall not deny such request without first granting a hearing to the cemetery authority. The hearing and review provisions of Sections 8 and 20 of this Act shall apply to the hearing provided for in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 88‑477. Repealed by P.A. 96‑863, eff. 3‑1‑12.)

    (760 ILCS 100/9)(from Ch. 21, par. 64.9)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on March 1, 2012)
    Sec. 9. Application for license.
    (a) Prior to the acceptance of care funds authorized by Section 3 of this Act or the sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a licensed cemetery authority, a cemetery authority owning, operating, controlling, or managing a privately operated cemetery shall make application to the Comptroller for a license to hold the funds.
    In the case of a sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the cemetery authority, the prior license shall remain in effect until the Comptroller issues a new license to the newly‑controlled cemetery authority as provided in Section 15b. Upon issuance of the new license, the prior license shall be deemed surrendered if the licensee has agreed to the sale and transfer and has consented to the surrender of the license. A sale or transfer of the controlling interest of a cemetery authority to an immediate family member is not considered a transfer of the controlling interest for purposes of this Section.
    (b) Applications for license shall be filed with the Comptroller. Applications shall be in writing under oath, signed by the applicant, and in the form furnished by the Comptroller. The form furnished by the Comptroller shall enable a cemetery authority to apply for license of multiple cemetery locations within a single license application. A check or money order in the amount of $25 per license seeking to be issued under the application, payable to: Comptroller, State of Illinois, shall be included. Each application shall contain the following:
        (1) the full name and address (both of residence and
     of place of business) of the applicant, if an individual; of every member, if the applicant is a partnership or association; of every officer or director, if the applicant is a corporation; and of any party owning 10% or more of the cemetery authority, and the full name and address of the parent company, if any;
        (2) a detailed statement of the applicant's assets
     and liabilities;
        (2.1) the name, address, and legal boundaries of
     each cemetery for which the care funds shall be entrusted and at which books, accounts, and records shall be available for examination by the Comptroller as required by Section 13 of this Act;
        (3) as to the name of each individual person listed
     under (1) above, a detailed statement of each person's business experience for the 10 years immediately preceding the application; the present and previous connection, if any, of each person with any other cemetery or cemetery authority; whether each person has ever been convicted of any felony or has ever been convicted of any misdemeanor of which an essential element is fraud or has been involved in any civil litigation in which a judgment has been entered against him or her based on fraud; whether each person is currently a defendant in any lawsuit in which the complaint against the person is based upon fraud; whether such person has failed to satisfy any enforceable judgment entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in any civil proceedings against such individual;
        (4) the total amount in trust and now available from
     sales of lots, graves, crypts or niches where part of the sale price has been placed in trust; the amount of money placed in the care funds of each applicant; the amount set aside in care funds from the sale of lots, graves, crypts and niches for the general care of the cemetery and the amount available for that purpose; the amount received in trust by special agreement for special care and the amount available for that purpose; the amount of principal applicable to trust funds received by the applicant; and
        (5) any other information that the Comptroller may
     reasonably require in order to determine the qualifications of the applicant to be licensed under this Act.
    Such information shall be furnished whether the care funds are held by the app