NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1215

SENATE BILL 687

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 463 OF THE 1959 SESSION LAWS RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT CORONERS  IN THE ABSENCE OF THE CORONER; AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 998 OF THE 1959 SESSION LAWS RELATING TO THE SALARIES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS IN HARNETT COUNTY; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSISTANT TO THE  DISTRICT SOLICITOR SERVING HARNETT COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 463 of the 1959 Session Laws and Section 1 thereof is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

The County Coroner of Harnett County is hereby authorized in his discretion to appoint two assistant coroners to act in his stead and in his absence as coroner. The assistant coroners are hereby vested with all the powers and duties imposed by law upon the coroner, while acting in the absence of the coroner. They 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. The salaries of the following enumerated officials of Harnett County are hereby set in the amount appearing opposite the title of the office:

Register of Deeds ...............................................................     $     410.00 per month

Clerk of Superior Court ....................................................            510.00 per month

Clerk of Recorder's Court .................................................            400.00 per month

Solicitor of Recorder's Court ...........................................            400.00 per month

Coroner ...............................................................................       1,500.00 per year

plus the sum of $1,500.00 for travel and expenses.

Sec. 3. The County Commissioners in addition to the compensation now provided by law shall receive a per diem allowance of twelve dollars ($12.00) per day for each day that the Board is in Session other than the first meeting in each month.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.