Pennsylvania Statutes Title 9 P.S. Burial Grounds § 15.3. Neglected cemeteries; contents of petition for authority to improve; plans; drawing of area

The petition filed by the church, cemetery or burial association, shall set forth the proposed plans of petitioner for the improvements of the cemetery, part or section thereof, including, if it proposes to remove the gravestones, a description of the memorial it intends to erect, the known names and dates of the dead buried therein and the known names and addresses of the person or persons having rights of interment therein.

Accompanying the petition shall be a scale drawing of the area to be improved, which shall show and designate the location of the graves from which the gravestones are to be removed. The drawing shall be filed and preserved by the court of quarter sessions, and a copy thereof shall be filed and preserved by the church, cemetery or burial association.