Section 9. Information for War Records.--The county commissioners of each county of the first class shall cause record blanks to be prepared, according to forms furnished by the Department of Military Affairs, whereby the information required for such record may be transmitted to them. Every person, firm, association or corporation, including a municipal corporation, owning or controlling any cemetery or burial place within a county of the first class, in which are interred the bodies of deceased service persons, shall file with the county commissioners of such county, in which such cemetery is located, a certificate on the record blanks, provided by said county commissioners, of the facts required for such record as far as the same are within the knowledge of such person, firm, association, corporation, or the agents thereof. The county commissioners shall cause record blanks to be distributed to such persons, firms, associations, and corporations, as they deem advisable, with the request that such information be transmitted to them. Any such person, firm, association or corporation, except municipal corporations, upon receipt of such blanks or forms who shall refuse or neglect to fill out and transmit to the county commissioners such blanks or forms within six months after receipt of same, shall be subject to a fine, upon conviction in summary proceedings, of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(9 amended June 21, 1947, P.L.898, No.372)