NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 74

HOUSE BILL 304

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 162-5 TO PROVIDE THAT IN THOSE COUNTIES WHERE THERE IS NO CORONER, THE DUTIES OF THE SHERIFF SHALL BE PERFORMED BY A DEPUTY SHERIFF WHEN A VACANCY OCCURS IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 162-5 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph thereto to read:

"In those counties where the office of coroner has been abolished, the chief deputy sheriff, or if there is no chief deputy, then the senior deputy in years of service, shall perform all the duties of the sheriff until the county commissioners appoint some person to fill the unexpired term. In all counties the regular deputy sheriffs shall, during the interim of the vacancy, continue to perform their duties with full authority."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective on ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of March, 1973.