(a) Restriction.--No municipality shall alienate or condemn through eminent domain proceedings a historic burial place or appropriate a historic burial place to any use other than that of a burial ground. No portion of any such burial place shall be taken for public use without the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Should such approval not be granted within a time period, not to exceed one year from the date approval was sought, approval shall be sought from the General Assembly.

(b) Record of removal.--If any historic burial place is appropriated for any other use and the tombs, monuments, gravestones or other memorials are removed from it, the burial ground authority shall preserve a record of the removal indicating the date of the removal and the site or place to which the removal was made. The authority shall send copies of such records to the recorder of deeds in the county in which the burial place is located and to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.