The coroners and all other public officers, agents and servants, and all officers, agents and servants of any county, city, township, borough, district or other municipality, or of any prison, morgue, hospital, home or other public institution, having the control or custody of the body of the deceased service person whose body is entitled to be buried under the provisions of this subdivision, shall immediately, upon the death or arrival of the body of such deceased service person, notify the county commissioners of the county wherein such death occurred or wherein such deceased service person shall have had his legal residence.
16 P.S. § 5112