NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1105

HOUSE BILL 1279

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 152-1 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMANCE COUNTY TO APPOINT AN ASSISTANT CORONER AND TO AMEND G. S. 152-5 RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF THE CORONER OF ALAMANCE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 152-1, as the same appears in Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"The Clerk of the Superior Court of Alamance County is hereby authorized to appoint, upon the nomination and recommendation of the duly elected Coroner of Alamance County, some qualified and competent person to act as Assistant Coroner for Alamance County. The person so appointed shall hold office at the pleasure of the Clerk of the Superior Court and shall take and subscribe to the oath prescribed for other public officers. He shall also execute an undertaking as required of the coroner conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of his office with good and sufficient surety in the penal sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) payable to the State of North Carolina, and approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Alamance County. The assistant coroner so appointed shall be vested with all the powers and duties conferred upon the regular coroner in respect to holding inquests over deceased bodies and shall be subject to the penalties and liabilities imposed on the said coroner. He shall be paid compensation for the services actually performed by him at the same rate and in the same manner as may be from time to time provided for the Coroner of Alamance County."

Sec. 2. G. S. 152-5, as the same appears in Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"Provided, that in Alamance County, the coroner shall receive the following fees in addition to the necessary expenses paid to him for burying a pauper over whom an inquest has been held:

For each investigation of a death or deaths                                             $15.00

For each additional day necessarily devoted to

such investigation                                                                            $15.00 per day

For each inquest                                                                                         $15.00

For each additional day necessarily devoted

to such inquest                                                                                 $15.00 per day

In addition, the coroner shall receive such allowance for travel expenses and other expenses as the Board of County Commissioners may allow."

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only to Alamance County.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1959.