2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 9 - Register of Wills
925 - Certificates and affidavits of death.

     § 925.  Certificates and affidavits of death.
        Where it is not necessary to have letters granted to
     administer a decedent's estate but it is desired to have a
     public record of his death, a certificate of death may be filed
     with the register except that where a certificate of death
     cannot be obtained the affidavit of a relative or other
     interested party may be filed with the register setting forth
     the decedent's name, residence, date, time and place of death,
     and age at death. The register shall index and record all such
     certificates and affidavits filed with him.
     (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.)

        1974 Amendment.  Act 293 added section 925.