Section 8062 - Sum to be spentAny county of the first class of this State is hereby authorized and directed to contribute the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) and may contribute an additional sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) towards the funeral expenses of each deceased service person in the cases enumerated below, where in each case application therefor is made within one year after the date of his or her death: Provided, That in the case of any deceased service person who died while in the service, application need not be made within one year after the date of his or her death, but may be made at any time thereafter, if the reason for the delay is satisfactory to the county. Payment shall be made under the following circumstances:
(1) Where the deceased service person at the time of his or her death had his or her legal residence in the county, whether or not he or she died in the county, and whether or not he or she was buried in the county. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the General Assembly that every deceased service person having a legal residence in any county of the first class in this Commonwealth at the time of his or her death shall be entitled to the benefits of this section, regardless of where he or she may have a died or where he or she may be buried, and that the liability therefore shall be on the county where such deceased service person shall have had his or her legal residence at the time of his or her death.(2) Where the deceased service person died and was buried in the county, but at the time of his death did not have a legal residence within this Commonwealth, if the county commissioners of the county where he died shall be notified in writing by any organization of veterans that the body is unclaimed by relatives or friends and upon investigation shall find such condition to exist.(3) When a deceased service person has died, while a member of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Erie, Pennsylvania, and such home incurs all funeral expenses and buries such person in a cemetery in the City of Erie, Pennsylvania, or the home furnishes clothing, casket, and shipping case, and ships the body to the county from which he was admitted to the home, the county from which he was admitted shall reimburse and pay to the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75.00), or so much thereof, as was actually expended by such home.1935, June 11, P.L. 326, § 2. Amended 1943, May 21, P.L. 294, §1; 1949, May 9, P.L. 974, § 1; 1957, July 8, P.L. 561, § 1; 1961, Aug. 22, P.L. 1040, § 1; 1967, Aug. 11, P.L. 211, § 1; 1971, Nov. 5, P.L. 512, No. 121, § 1.