Section 3472 - Petition to common pleas for order for destruction(a) Bonds of the county which have heretofore matured or may hereafter mature and all coupons pertaining to the same, upon redemption by the treasurer of the county, and all expired insurance policies on county property, both real and personal which have been expired for a period of not less than six years, may be destroyed by incineration at a place to be designated by the county commissioners. Before the destruction of any such public records, there shall first be filed a petition in the court of common pleas of the county, by either the county commissioners, the county controller or the county treasurer, or by all of them jointly, setting forth full and detailed information about the numbers, valuations and maturity dates of the bonds so to be destroyed, and full and detailed information in regard to the insurance policies, including the date of issuance, the name of the risk, the amount of the coverage, the date of expiration, and the disposition of any claim made in regard to said policy or policies so to be destroyed.(b) In case of the failure or refusal of either the county commissioners, the county controller or the county treasurer to join in the prayer of the said petition, the court shall make a preliminary order upon those officers failing or refusing to sign said petition to show cause why such destructions should not be effected, said rule to be returnable in ten days.(c) After a hearing thereon, the court of common pleas of the county shall make such order as it may deem advisable and proper under the facts. After an order for said destruction of said public records, if the court of common pleas grants the prayer of the petition for the said destruction of said bonds and coupons and insurance policies, the county commissioners shall, at an appointed place designated by them, at a period not less than sixty days from the date of said order, publicly destroy said records, and the county controller shall make a minute in his office of such records destroyed.1953, July 28, P.L. 723, art. IV, § 472.