Shelby County, Ill. (ECWd) –
As further evidence that there was a previous unlawful appointment of Shelby County Board Member Teresa Boehm to the Rose Township Cemetery Board (holding both offices), State Senator Steve McClure has introduced Senate Bill 1241.
SB1241 seeks to place the appointments to cemetery boards at the hands of the township supervisors in those townships who do not have a township collector – like nearly all small townships outside of Cook and the collar counties.
Currently, the county treasurer’s statutory duty is to assume the role of the township collector in townships without a collector.
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township supervisor may appoint a cemetery board of managers (now, only the township collector may appoint a cemetery board of managers).
We previously wrote about the appointment process for certain township cemetery boards (here) and even wrote about the prosecutor’s apparent acknowledgment of the conflict in holding both the office of county board member and cemetery board member in Shelby County (here).
For those who insisted it was perfectly legal for a Township to make such an appointment, why would such a bill need to be adopted?
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