GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

 

 

SESSION LAW 2005-368

SENATE BILL 505

 

 

AN ACT to increase the fee paid to local medical examiners for each investigation conducted.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 130A-387 reads as rewritten:

"§ 130A-387.  Fees.

For each investigation and prompt filing of the required report, the medical examiner shall receive a fee paid by the State. However, if the deceased is a resident of the county in which the death or fatal injury occurred, that county shall pay the fee. The fee shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00) one hundred dollars ($100.00)."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to deaths investigated on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of August, 2005.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 1:31 p.m. this 8th day of September, 2005