NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 463

SENATE BILL 296

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CORONER OF HARNETT COUNTY TO APPOINT AN ASSISTANT CORONER TO ACT IN HIS ABSENCE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The County Coroner of Harnett County is hereby authorized in his discretion to appoint an assistant coroner to act in his stead and in his absence as coroner. The assistant coroner is hereby vested with all the powers and duties imposed by law upon the coroner, while acting in the absence of the coroner. He shall serve at the will of the coroner and shall receive for acting the same fees which the coroner otherwise would have received.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1959.