9 P.S. § 43 Removal of Bodies From Burial Grounds Which Are a Public Nuisance, Or Land Is Required For Other Uses

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 9 P.S. § 43

When by the growth of cities, towns, and counties of the second class, and the opening of incorporated or unincorporated cemeteries in cities, or in the vicinity thereof, and in counties of the second class, or from other causes, any burial-ground privately owned and in charge of no person or persons, or any burial-ground belonging to or in charge of any religious society or church directly, or through trustees thereof, or in charge of no person, persons, church or society, or belonging to or in charge of any municipality or county of the second class, has ceased to be used for interments, or has become so neglected, as in the opinion of the court, to become a public nuisance, or that the remains of bodies interred in any such neglected or disused cemetery in any city or county of the second class interfere with and hinder the improvements, extensions, and general progressive interests of any city or county of the second class; or when the said land shall be desired by the said municipality, or in the school district thereof, or by the county of the second class, for the erection thereon of any municipal or county school, or free public library building, or for use as recreation centres or municipal or county playgrounds, or the opening, laying out, or extension through said land of any street or highway, or for any other public purposes; the court of quarter sessions of the several counties of this Commonwealth, upon petition of the managers, officers, county of the second class or municipality, or, on the petition of fifty or more citizens or residents in the vicinity, in case where such cemetery or graveyard is not in charge of any person, persons, church or society, or trustees of such society or church, setting forth that the erection, extension, improvements, and general...