Pennsylvania Act 1945-74 — GIVING FREE RECORDS TO DISABLED VETERANS

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GIVING FREE RECORDS TO DISABLED VETERANS
                  Act of Apr. 6, 1945, P.L. 165, No. 74               Cl. 35
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the issuance of certified copies of birth, death,
        and marriage certificates by the proper city and county
        officers in cities of the first class, to disabled war
        veterans and their dependents, in death and compensation
        cases, free of charge.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Whenever application shall be made in cities of
     the first class of this Commonwealth to the proper city, or
     county officers, by or on behalf of any disabled war veteran of
     any war in which the United States has been, is now, or shall
     hereafter be engaged, or by or on behalf of any dependent of any
     such veteran, for a certified copy of any death, birth, or
     marriage certificate for use in connection with any claim for
     death benefits and compensation allowance, it shall be the duty
     of such officer to furnish such certified copy free of any
     charge therefor.
        Section 2.  So much of the act, approved the eighth day of
     March, one thousand eight hundred sixty (Pamphlet Laws, one
     hundred thirty), and the act, approved the eleventh day of June,
     one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred
     fourteen), and all other acts, and parts of acts, as are
     inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.
        Section 3.  This act shall become effective ten days after
     its final enactment.