21 Pa. Stat. § 497
After notice has been served upon any owner, or the legal representative thereof, to record and plan of subdivision of any tract of land, as aforesaid, said owner, or legal representatives thereof, may, within sixty days prescribed in said notice, present a petition to the court of common pleas of the proper county, setting forth, under oath, that the plan of subdivision of the land required to be recorded as described in said notice is lost or destroyed; whereupon said court shall order said petition filed and that no proceedings shall be begun to collect any penalty under the provisions of this act, and at the same time the said court shall further order that a plan of the subdivision described in said notice shall be made and filed in said court within a reasonable time to be fixed by said court.
21 P.S. § 497