NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 357

HOUSE BILL 560

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CORONER OF GRANVILLE COUNTY TO APPOINT A DEPUTY CORONER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Coroner of Granville County is hereby authorized in his discretion to appoint some fit and suitable person to act as Deputy Coroner for Granville County. The person so appointed shall hold office at the pleasure of the coroner and shall take and subscribe to the oath prescribed for public officers. He shall also execute an undertaking 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. The premium on said bond shall be paid by the board of county commissioners out of the general fund of the county.

Sec. 2. The deputy coroner shall be invested 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 said coroner.

Sec. 3. A deputy coroner appointed under the provisions of this Act shall receive the same fees now provided by law for the regular Coroner of Granville 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of April, 1959.