1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 192
Abstract
An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate or injure any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub or ornament, or any object whatever, in any cemetery, or in any avenue, lot or part thereof, or shall hunt, shoot or discharge any gun, pistol or other missile, with the limits of any cemetery, or shall cause any shot or missile to be discharged into or over any portion thereof, or shall violate any of the rules made and established by the board of directors of such cemetery§
Summary
This Illinois law made it a misdemeanor to intentionally damage or vandalize any part of a cemetery. It also prohibited hunting or firing guns, pistols, or other projectiles within or over cemetery grounds, as well as violating rules established by cemetery directors for the protection and management of the property.
Law Text
15. Destroying, etc., tomb, etc.—penalty.] §1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate or injure any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub or ornament, or any object whatever, in any cemetery, or in any avenue, lot or part thereof, or shall hunt, shoot or discharge any gun, pistol or other missile, within the limits of any cemetery, or shall cause any shot or missile to be discharged into or over any portion thereof, or shall violate any of the rules made and established by the board of directors of such cemetery, for the protection or government thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. All such fines when recovered, shall be paid over by the court or officer receiving the same to the cemetery association and be applied, as far as possible in repairing the injury, if any, caused by such offense. Provided, nothing contained in this act shall deprive such cemetery association, or the owner of any lot or monument from maintaining an action for the recovery of damages caused by any injury caused by a violation of the provisions of this act, or of the rules established by the board of directors of such cemetery association. [See ch. 38, § 139.
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