PRINTER'S NO. 2256
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1676
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY DIAMOND, CALTAGIRONE, JOHNSON-HARRELL, McNEILL,
RYAN AND SCHMITT, JUNE 25, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 25, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in grant of letters,
further providing for advertisement of grant of letters.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3162(a) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 3162. Advertisement of grant of letters.
(a) Notice generally.--
(1) The personal representative, immediately after the
grant of letters, shall cause notice thereof to be given [in
one newspaper of general circulation published at or near the
place where the decedent resided or, in the case of a
nonresident decedent, at or near the place where the letters
were granted, and in the legal periodical, if any, designated
by rule of court for the publication of legal notices,]:
(i) in the legal periodical, if any, designated by
rule of court for the publication of legal notices;
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(ii) either:
(A) on the official website of the register of
wills in the county where letters were grants
according to fees established under section 2.1 of
the act of July 1, 1981 (P.L.191, No.57), referred to
as the Register of Wills Fee Law, or, if the register
of wills of the county does not provide such website,
then in a newspaper of general circulation published
at or near the place where the decedent resided; or
(B) a newspaper of general circulation published
at or near the place where the decedent resided or,
if the register of wills of the county does not
provide a website for publication, then publication
shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation
published at or near the place where the decedent
resided; and
(iii) in the case of a nonresident decedent, in a
newspaper of general circulation at or near the place
where the letters were granted.
(2) The notices required under paragraph (1)(i) and
(iii) shall be published once a week for three successive
weeks and, in the case of the notice required under paragraph
(1)(ii), continuously for a period of not less than three
successive weeks, together with [his] the personal
representative's name and address; and in every such notice,
[he] the personal representative shall request all persons
having claims against the estate of the decedent to make the
claims known [the same to him or his] to the personal
representative or the personal representative's attorney, and
all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment to [him]
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the personal representative without delay.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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