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PROPOSED INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT
Department(s): Cook County Medical Examiner
Other Part(ies): Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Hillside, Illinois
Request: To approve this agreement for indigent burials for the decedents of Cook County.
Good(s) or Service(s): This is allowing for the dignified burials of the unclaimed, unknown and unborn children.
Agreement period: 12/1/2019 - 10/31/2022
Fiscal Impact: FY 2020 $48,000.00; FY2021 $48,000.00; FY2022 $48,000.00
Accounts: 11100.1259.17140.520475
Agreement Number(s): N/A
Summary/Notes: This agreement is for the dignified burials of the unclaimed decedents, unknown decedents and unborn children of Cook County that arrive at the Medical Examiner’s (ME) Office. Catholic Cemeteries will arrange through a third- party funeral director for the pickup and delivery of human remains from the ME to the Interment Location; provided that those remains must be placed in a burial shell by the ME prior to time of pickup.
Upon the release of decedents from the ME for burial, an administrator or investigator under the control of ME shall: (a) accompany the vehicle transporting such decedents from the location of pickup of such decedents to the Interment Location; (b) oversee the burial process in its entirety; (c) retain all death records of each burial.
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