PRINTER'S NO. 425
No. 399 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY BUXTON, CAPPELLI, BOYD, BUNT, CALTAGIRONE,
CRAHALLA, FICHTER, GERGELY, GINGRICH, GRELL, KOTIK, LEDERER,
MUNDY, PAYNE, READSHAW, B. SMITH, STABACK, TIGUE, VITALI AND
SATHER, FEBRUARY 9, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 54 (Names) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for surviving spouse to resume
3 prior name.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 704.1 of Title 54 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes, added November 19, 2004 (P.L.842,
8 No.105), is amended to read:
9 § 704.1. Surviving spouse may resume prior name.
10 A surviving spouse may, at any time, resume any prior surname
11 used by him or her by filing a written notice to such effect in
12 the office of the [clerk of courts of common pleas] prothonotary
13 of the county where the surviving spouse resides, accompanied by
14 a certificate of death for the decedent. In counties where there
15 is no prothonotary, the notice shall be filed in the office that
16 performs the functions of the office of prothonotary as provided
17 for in the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The
1 County Code.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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