Section 1923-A - Compilation of war records(a)Records required.--The county commissioners of each county are authorized and directed, at the expense of the county, to compile a record of the interment sites within the county of deceased servicepersons and all other veterans. Records, so far as practicable, shall indicate the name of each deceased serviceperson, the service in which the person was engaged, the number of the regiment, company or command, the rank and period of service, the name and location of the cemetery or other place in which the person's body is interred, the location of the grave in a cemetery or other place and the character of headstone or other marker, if any, at the grave. The record shall be known as the Veterans' Grave Registration Record of............................. County, and shall be a public record, open to inspection during business hours.(b)Record blanks.--The county commissioners of each county shall ensure that record blanks are prepared, according to forms prescribed by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, whereby the information required for the record may be transmitted to the commissioners upon request.(c)Certificate required.--Every person, firm, association or corporation, including a municipal corporation, owning or controlling a cemetery or interment site in this Commonwealth which inters bodies of deceased servicepersons shall file with the county director of veterans' affairs of the county in which the cemetery is located a certificate, on the record blanks provided by the county commissioners, of the facts required for the record if the facts are within the knowledge of the person, firm, association or corporation or a designated agent.(d) Offense.--The county commissioners of each county shall ensure that record blanks are distributed to a person, firm, association or corporation, as they deem advisable, with the request that the information required under this section be transmitted to the county. A person, firm, association or corporation, except municipal corporations, that refuses or neglects to fill out and transmit to the county commissioners the blanks or forms within six months after receipt of the blanks or forms is guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $100.(e) Location of interment sites.--For the purpose of locating the interment sites of persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States during a war or armed conflict in which the United States was engaged, any veterans' organization listed in section 1921-A(a) or otherwise recognized by the county is authorized, without expense to the county, to collect the required data and prepare and file with the county commissioners certificates embodying the information required under this section.(f) Written notice.--Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, any organization that accepts remains under section 506.2 of the act of June 29, 1953 ( P.L. 304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, which allows certain veterans' service organizations to claim the remains of certain deceased veterans, shall give written notice of the location and manner of the final disposition of the remains to the county director of veterans' affairs of the county in which the final disposition of the remains is made. Added by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 70, eff. 12/24/2018.