{"data":{"id":"us-pa/51-pa.c.s.-9402","jurisdiction":"us-pa","citation":"51 Pa.C.S. § 9402","heading":"Federal reports of persons missing in action or interned as evidence.","body":"An official written report, or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer, or employee of the United States authorized by the statute referred to in section 9401 (relating to Federal findings of death or other status as evidence), or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office, or other place in this Commonwealth as prima facie evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.","path":["Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS","PART VI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 94 MISSING PERSONS"],"source_url":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM\u0026ttl=51\u0026div=0\u0026chpt=94\u0026sctn=2\u0026subsctn=0","current_through":"2026-08-31 (Statute Update stamp, 51 Pa.C.S.)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T16:33:58Z","sha256":"91f9ffe37593d96da8db5e2de907aef24dd1dc376aa73ba90c5749de74a6d3ef","source_id":"us-pa","stale":false,"prev":"us-pa/51-pa.c.s.-9401","next":"us-pa/51-pa.c.s.-9403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}