Illinois Statutes Chapter 815. Business Transactions § 390/26. Mortgages; obligations of purchasers of contracts

§ 26. (a) No person shall encumber or mortgage cemetery property, unless the mortgage or other encumbrance documents contain the following clause:

“The mortgagee expressly agrees that there shall be released from the lien of this mortgage, automatically and without recordation of any instrument, any lot, crypt, or niche encumbered hereby with respect to which the mortgagor sells rights of interment, entombment or inurnment in the ordinary course of business”.

(b) In the case of a sale of any cemetery or any part thereof or any related cemetery merchandise by a cemetery owner to a purchaser, except the sale of burial rights, interment services, or cemetery merchandise to a person for his or her personal or family burial or interment, the purchaser shall perform all obligations imposed under this Act, all obligations imposed under pre-need sales contracts made by the selling cemetery or any prior cemetery owner relating to pre-need sales and any other related obligations.