PRINTER'S NO. 2125
No. 1739 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY DOMBROWSKI, D. S. HAYES, BENNETT, BOWSER,
KLINGAMAN, CAPPABIANCA, DiCARLO, DORR AND A. C. FOSTER, JR.,
SEPTEMBER 24, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 9 (Burial Grounds) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the filing of
3 accounts.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 308 of Title 9, act of November 25, 1970
7 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 308. Accounts of qualified trustee.
10 (a) Institutional trustee.--The qualified trustee, if an
11 institutional trustee, shall file accounts in the court of
12 common pleas of the county in which the cemetery, or any part
13 thereof, is situate, which accounts shall be filed triennially
14 and at such other times as the court may direct, and which
15 accounts shall be audited, adjudicated and confirmed by the
16 court upon such notice to the parties in interest as the court
17 may determine.
18 (b) Cemetery company as trustee.--[The court of common pleas
1 of the county in which the cemetery, or any part thereof, is
2 situated shall have jurisdiction in the discretion of said court
3 to compel any] An incorporated cemetery company acting as a
4 qualified trustee under section 309 of this title (relating to
5 incorporated cemetery company as qualified trustee) [to file
6 accounts of any funds deposited in the permanent lot care fund.]
7 shall file accounts in the court of common pleas of the county
8 in which the majority of the cemetery is situate, which accounts
9 shall cover the period from May 1, 1977 to May 1, 1980 or for
10 the period from the last filing whichever is shorter and which
11 accounts shall be filed initially within 36 months of the
12 effective date of this amendatory act and triennially thereafter
13 and at such other times as the court may direct, and which
14 accounts shall be audited, adjudicated and confirmed by the
15 court upon such notice to the parties in interest as the court
16 may determine.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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