Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 4201. Unfinished business of outgoing sheriff

(a) It shall be the duty of every outgoing sheriff to deliver all unfinished and unexecuted writs and process whatsoever to his successor, whose duty it shall be to receive and execute the same as if said writs and process had been originally issued and directed to him, and to carry out and complete all other official duties of his predecessor.

(b) Whenever any real estate shall be sold under any execution by a sheriff who shall in any lawful manner be succeeded in office before any deed shall be executed and acknowledged by him in due form of law for such real estate, his successor in office shall have the same power and be under the same duty to execute and acknowledge a deed for such real estate to the purchaser thereof as the sheriff selling such real estate under execution if he were still in office, which deed so executed shall be as effectual in law as if the title had been completed by the former sheriff.

(c) No court order shall be necessary in any event to authorize an incoming sheriff to carry out his duties as prescribed by this act.  1