Illinois Statutes Chapter 765. Property § 835/10. Abandonment proceedings; petition

§ 10. A cemetery authority may file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the cemetery is located a verified petition praying for the entry of an order adjudging a cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium to have been abandoned. The petition shall describe the cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium alleged to have been abandoned, shall allege ownership by the petitioner of the cemetery, and, if known, the name of the owner of the right or easement for burial in such cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium as is alleged to have been abandoned, or, if the owner thereof is known to the petitioner to be deceased, then the names, if known to petitioner, of such claimants thereto as are the heirs-at-law and next-of-kin or the specific legatees under the will of the owner of the right or easement for burial in such interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium and such other facts as the petitioner may have with respect to ownership of the right or easement for burial in such cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium.

The petition shall also allege the facts with respect to the abandonment of the cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium or facts about the obligation of the owner to pay annual or periodic maintenance or care charges on such cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium, the amount of such charges as are due and unpaid, and shall also allege the continuous failure by the owner or claimant to pay such charges for a period of 30 consecutive years or more.

Irrespective of diversity of ownership of the right or easement for burial therein, a cemetery authority may include in one petition as many cemetery interment rights, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment rights in a community columbarium as are alleged to have been abandoned.