70 ILCS 105/3

Current through Public Act 103-1052

Section 70 ILCS 105/3 - Board of trustees

A board of trustees consisting of 3 members for the government and control of the affairs and business of a cemetery maintenance district incorporated under this act shall be determined in the following manner:

(1) If the district lies wholly within a single township, the board of trustees of that township shall appoint the trustees for the district but no township official is eligible for such appointment;

(2) If the district is not contained wholly within a single township, but is located wholly within a single county, the trustees for the district shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the county board with the advice and consent of the county board;

(3) If the district lies wholly within a municipality, the governing body of the municipality shall appoint trustees for the district;

(4) If the district does not conform to any of the foregoing classifications, the members of the General Assembly whose legislative districts encompass any portion of said cemetery maintenance district shall appoint the trustees for the district.

Within 20 days after the creation of a cemetery maintenance district as provided in Section 1 hereof, the appropriate appointing authority shall appoint 3 trustees.

The trustees shall hold their offices for 1, 2 and 3 years from the first Monday of May next after their appointment and until their successors have been appointed and qualified and thereafter on or before the second Monday in April of each year the appropriate appointing authority shall appoint one trustee whose term shall be for 3 years commencing on the first Monday in May next after they are respectively appointed. The length of term of the first trustees shall be determined by lot at their first meeting.

The appropriate appointing authority shall require each of the trustees to enter into bond with security to be approved by the appointing authority in such sum as the appointing authority may determine.

A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum. The trustees shall provide and adopt a corporate seal for the district.

70 ILCS 105/3

P.A. 82-783.