2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 16 - COUNTIES
Chapter 13 - Recorder of Deeds
Section 1303 - Confidentiality

Universal Citation:
16 PA Cons Stat § 1303 (2025)
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§ 1303. Confidentiality.

A record of a discharge received by the recorder of deeds for recording shall be confidential and may not be disclosed except as follows:

(1) To the individual who is the subject of the discharge, to a member of the individual's immediate family or, as authorized in writing, to the individual's agent or representative.

(2) To a person making a request for a record, report or form if the event that resulted in the record, report or form occurred more than 85 years prior to the request.

(3) If required by process of a court to be produced in a suit or proceeding pending.

(4) If required by the county director of veterans affairs or a department or other agency of the Commonwealth or Federal Government.

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