Bill Text: IL HB3775 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Cemetery Oversight Act. Provides that any retail installment contract for the purchase of interment, entombment, or inurnment rights shall contain a clearly worded notice, in 12-point type, bold, underlined, and capital letters, that rights to a deeded interest do not vest until final payment and that upon an uncured default, including when a contract is rolled into a new open-balance retail installment contract, with additional interment, entombment, or inurnment rights or additional cemetery merchandise or services, there will be no deeded interest.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0206 [HB3775 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3775-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0206
HB3775 Enrolled LRB103 26880 SPS 53244 b
AN ACT concerning business.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Cemetery Oversight Act is amended by
changing Section 20-10 as follows:
(225 ILCS 411/20-10)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
Sec. 20-10. Contract.
(a) At the time cemetery arrangements are made and prior
to rendering the cemetery services, a cemetery authority shall
create a completed written contract to be provided to the
consumer, signed by both parties by their actual written
signatures on either paper or electronic form, that shall
contain: (i) the date on which the arrangements were made;
(ii) the price of the service selected and the services and
merchandise included for that price; (iii) the supplemental
items of service and merchandise requested and the price of
each item; (iv) the terms or method of payment agreed upon; and
(v) a statement as to any monetary advances made on behalf of
the family. The cemetery authority shall maintain a copy of
such written contract in its permanent records.
(b) Any retail installment contract for the purchase of
interment, entombment, or inurnment rights shall contain a

clearly worded notice in 12-point type, bold, underlined, and
capital letters, that rights to a deeded interest do not vest
until final payment and that upon an uncured default,
including when a contract is rolled into a new open-balance
retail installment contract, with additional interment,
entombment, or inurnment rights or additional cemetery
merchandise or services, there will be no deeded interest.
(Source: P.A. 102-20, eff. 6-25-21.)