8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 28 - Cemeteries

• Chapter Notes
• Section 2800 - Appropriations For Burial Ground Maintenance
  A borough may appropriate annually, out of the general funds of the borough, a sum for the care, upkeep, maintenance and beautifying of: (1)...
• Section 2800.1 - Burial Of Deceased Persons
  A borough may prohibit the burial or interment of deceased persons anywhere within borough limits.
• Section 2801 - Management By Cemetery Commission
  If the title and management of a cemetery is vested in a borough, the council may, by ordinance, vest the care, management and operation...
• Section 2802 - Transfer From Borough To Company
  (a) Authority.--Upon petition of at least 10% of living cemetery lot owners, the council may transfer the cemetery and its management to an incorporated...
• Section 2803 - (Reserved)
• Section 2804 - (Reserved)
• Section 2805 - Transfer From Company To Borough
  (a) Judicial action.-- (1) Upon the petition of an incorporated cemetery company and the owners of a majority of the taxable real estate in...
• Section 2805.1 - Neglected Or Abandoned Cemeteries
  (a) Maintenance.--The council may, upon compliance with subsection (b), direct the removal of weeds, refuse and debris from an abandoned or neglected cemetery. (b)...
• Section 2806 - (Reserved)
• Section 2807 - (Reserved)
• Section 2808 - Removing Bodies To Alter Plots
  In altering the plot of a cemetery, bodies may be removed and reinterred in a suitable place but without cost to surviving relatives.
• Section 2809 - Removal Of Bodies To Other Cemeteries
  (a) Authority.-- (1) This subsection applies to a privately owned cemetery, a borough-owned cemetery or a cemetery affiliated with a religious society or church...
• Section 2810 - (Reserved)
• Section 2811 - (Reserved)
• Section 2812 - (Reserved)
• Section 2813 - (Reserved)
• Section 2814 - (Reserved)
• Section 2815 - (Reserved)
• Section 2816 - Purchase Of Plots For Burial Of Deceased Service Members
  (a) Authority.--A borough may purchase plots of ground in a cemetery or burial ground within its limits for the interment of deceased members of...

Last modified: October 8, 2016