PRINTER'S NO. 1798
No. 1537 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY COWELL, LEVDANSKY, PISTELLA, PETRONE, MICHLOVIC
AND GIGLIOTTI, MAY 23, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MAY 23, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for
5 grave markers.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. The heading and subsection (f) of section 2113 of
9 the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second
10 Class County Code, amended May 3, 1965 (P.L.27, No.25) and
11 October 7, 1975 (P.L.367, No.102), are amended to read:
12 Section 2113. Markers on Graves; Memorial Certificates;
13 Headstones.--* * *
14 (f) The county commissioners of the county are hereby
15 authorized and directed to place a marker upon the grave of each
16 deceased service person who, at the time of his or her death,
17 had his or her legal residence in the county, whether or not he
18 or she died in the county and whether or not he or she was
19 buried in the county, and upon the grave of each deceased
1 service person buried in the county who, at the time of his or
2 her death, did not have a legal residence within this
3 Commonwealth. When such deceased service person shall have been
4 a veteran of any war or campaign for which the Government of the
5 United States issued discharge buttons, the markers designated
6 for their graves shall include a facsimile of said discharge
7 button. When such markers are upright flag holders they shall
8 consist of cast bronze or any other weather resistant material.
9 When such deceased service person shall have been a veteran of
10 the Korean Conflict, the markers designated for their graves
11 shall include a circular emblem with the works "Korea, U.S.,
12 1950-1953" in the border thereof, and shall incorporate the
13 insignia of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast
14 Guard, in the form approved by the Veterans' Commission. In lieu
15 of placing an upright flag holder on the grave, if the next of
16 kin of a veteran so requests, a memorial certificate may be
17 issued to the next-of-kin of a deceased service person who at
18 the time of his or her death had his or her legal residence in
19 the county, whether or not he or she died in the county and
20 whether or not he or she was buried in the county. The memorial
21 certificate shall indicate the deceased service person's name
22 and designate the war or campaign in which the deceased service
23 person served.
24 * * *
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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