73 Pa.C.S. § 3914 – Purchase of burial grounds for deceased servicepersons

(1) Who die within the township or die beyond the township limits but had a legal residence within the township at the time of death.
(2) Whose bodies are entitled to be buried by the county under the provisions of existing law.

The board of commissioners may appropriate money and purchase plots of ground in a cemetery or burial ground for the interment of deceased servicepersons: