(820 ILCS 135/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 101)
Sec. 1.
(a) Every contract, agreement or understanding between a cemetery
authority and a cemetery workers' association which totally prohibits burials
of human remains on Sundays or legal holidays shall be deemed to be void
as against public policy and wholly unenforceable.
(b) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a cemetery authority and a
cemetery workers' association from entering into a contract, agreement or
understanding which limits Sunday or holiday burials of human remains to
decedents who were members of religious sects whose tenets or beliefs require
burials within a specified period of time and whose deaths occurred at such
times as to necessitate Sunday or holiday burials. Such contract, agreement
or understanding may provide that a funeral director notify the cemetery
authority within a reasonable time when a Sunday or holiday burial is necessitated
by reason of the decedent's religious tenets or beliefs.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to restrain, prohibit or interfere
with the burial of a decedent whose time of death and religious tenets or
beliefs necessitate burial on a Sunday or legal holiday.
(d) A violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(e) For the purposes of this Act, "cemetery authority" shall have the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 2 of the Cemetery Care Act or the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable; and "cemetery workers'
association" means an organization of workers who are employed by cemetery
authorities to perform the task of burying human remains or transporting
remains to cemeteries or other places of interment, and who join together
for collective bargaining purposes or to negotiate terms and conditions of employment.
(Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-10.)
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