PRINTER'S NO. 4613
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2969
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, KINSEY, WEBSTER, McNEILL, ZIMMERMAN,
MILLARD, KORTZ AND CIRESI, NOVEMBER 18, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, NOVEMBER 18, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of November 24, 1992 (P.L.730, No.110),
entitled "An act providing cemetery companies or associations
with the right to inter a dead human body in a ground space,
a mausoleum, a columbarium or a niche to which interment
rights have been abandoned; and encouraging caretaker
organizations to assume responsibility for restoration and
maintenance of historic burial places by limiting liability
in connection therewith," further providing for abandoned
interment rights.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1 of the act of November 24, 1992
(P.L.730, No.110), entitled "An act providing cemetery companies
or associations with the right to inter a dead human body in a
ground space, a mausoleum, a columbarium or a niche to which
interment rights have been abandoned; and encouraging caretaker
organizations to assume responsibility for restoration and
maintenance of historic burial places by limiting liability in
connection therewith," is amended by adding a subsection to
read:
Section 1. Abandoned interment rights.
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(d) Approval of transfers.--A transfer of the ownership of
the interment right must be approved by a cemetery company or
association. The cemetery company or association may reserve to
buy back the interment right.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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