Pennsylvania § 727 Venue of cemetery companies

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 727 — Venue of cemetery companies

Pennsylvania § 727

Title 20DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

Ch. 7ORPHANS' COURT DIVISIONS

Subch.VENUE

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Bluebook

20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 727 (2026).

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Except as otherwise provided in Title 9 (relating to burial grounds) or prescribed by general rules, in exercising the jurisdiction of the court over the property or affairs of a domestic or foreign cemetery company in matters relating to burial grounds or to property held for the burial of the dead or for the care or adornment of burial grounds, the venue shall be in the county where the burial ground, or any part thereof is located or, in the absence of any involved burial grounds within this Commonwealth, in a county where any property held or controlled by the cemetery company is located.

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Except as otherwise provided in Title 9 (relating to burial grounds) or prescribed by general rules, in exercising the jurisdiction of the court over the property or affairs of a domestic or foreign cemetery company in matters relating to burial grounds or to property held for the burial of the dead or for the care or adornment of burial grounds, the venue shall be in the county where the burial ground, or any part thereof is located or, in the absence of any involved burial grounds within this Commonwealth, in a county where any property held or controlled by the cemetery company is located.