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Venue of cemetery companies - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 727

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     § 727.  Venue of cemetery companies.
        Except as otherwise provided in Title 9 (relating to burial
     grounds) or prescribed by general rules, in exercising the
     jurisdiction of the court over the property or affairs of a
     domestic or foreign cemetery company in matters relating to
     burial grounds or to property held for the burial of the dead or
     for the care or adornment of burial grounds, the venue shall be
     in the county where the burial ground, or any part thereof is
     located or, in the absence of any involved burial grounds within
     this Commonwealth, in a county where any property held or
     controlled by the cemetery company is located.
     (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.77, No.37, eff. 60 days; Dec. 19, 1990,
     P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.)

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