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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Hereafter it shall not be lawful to erect or establish any slaughter house, manure or bone dust factory, soap factory, distillery or tannery within two hundred yards of the enclosed grounds of any incorporated cemetery, and any slaughter house, manure or bone dust factory, soap factory, distillery or tannery hereafter erected or established within the said distance from the boundary of any such cemetery or burial place is hereby declared and shall be deemed and taken to be a public nuisance, subject to be abated and removed as common or public nuisances are in other cases: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall be confined to the county of York. 1
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 9 P.S. Burial Grounds § 9. Slaughter houses, soap factories, etc., not to be built within two hundred yards of an incorporated cemetery in York and Philadelphia counties - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-9-ps-burial-grounds/pa-st-sect-9-9/
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