NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 572

HOUSE BILL 748

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 152-5 RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF THE CORONER OF GRAHAM COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 152-5 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"Provided, that in Graham 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. 2. This Act shall apply to Graham County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1961.