16 Pa. Stat. § 1915-A

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 1915-A - Care of graves and headstones.

The county commissioners of each county may ensure that the graves and headstones of all deceased servicepersons and all other veterans who are buried in the county receive proper and fitting care and may employ all necessary assistants to carry out the provisions of this section. The expense of the care of the graves and headstones may be paid for by the county where the graves are located, except where suitable care is otherwise provided. Money appropriated may be expended directly by the county commissioners or paid over to the person, firm, association or corporation owning or controlling a cemetery or other interment site in the county where a grave is situated. The sum paid for a grave each year shall not exceed the charge for the annual care and maintenance of like graves in the same cemetery or, if no fixed charge is established in that cemetery, shall not exceed the sum charged in other cemeteries in the same county for like service.

16 P.S. § 1915-A

Added by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 70, eff. 12/24/2018.