After the expiration of one year from the date of entry of an order adjudging an interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium to have been abandoned, a cemetery authority shall have the right to do so and may sell such interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium at public sale and grant an easement therein for burial purposes to the purchaser at such sale, subject to the interment of any human remains theretofore placed therein and the right to maintain memorials placed thereon. A cemetery authority may bid at and purchase such interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium at such sale.
     Notice of the time and place of any sale held pursuant to an order adjudicating abandonment of a cemetery interment right, entombment rights in a community mausoleum or lawn crypt section, or inurnment right in a community columbarium shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the cemetery is located, such publication to be not less than 30 days prior to the date of sale.
     The proceeds derived from any sale shall be used to reimburse the petitioner for the costs of suit and necessary expenses, including attorney’s fees, incurred by petitioner in the proceeding, and the balance, if any, shall be deposited into the cemetery authority’s care fund or, if there is no care fund, used by the cemetery authority for the care of its cemetery and for no other purpose.