NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 372

HOUSE BILL 361

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 152-5 IN RESPECT TO CORONERS FEES IN RICHMOND COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 152-5, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Fees of Coroners in Richmond County shall be as follows:

(1)       For each investigation of death or deaths, sixteen dollars ($16.00), and for each additional day necessarily devoted to such investigation, an additional eleven dollars ($11.00).

(2)       For each inquest, twenty-one dollars ($21.00).

(3)       For each autopsy, before interment, twenty-six dollars ($26.00), and for autopsy after interment, fifty-two dollars ($52.00), which shall cover cost of exhuming of body, the autopsy and reinterment, provided that where the services of a physician other than the coroner are required the court ordering such autopsy shall fix the fees to be paid such physician in addition to the fees herein provided.

(4)       For summoning and empaneling coroner's jury, five dollars ($5.00).

(5)       For necessary travel in making investigation, ten cents (10¢) per mile for automobile and when hearse is required, thirty-five cents (35¢) per mile."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 28th day of April, 1959.