NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 677
HOUSE BILL 930

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A DEPUTY CORONER BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Mecklenburg is authorized to appoint a Deputy Coroner for the County of Mecklenburg, who shall have and possess all of the powers and authority of the duly elected county coroner at any time the coroner is unable to serve.
Sec. 2. Any deputy coroner appointed by the board of county commissioners pursuant to the provisions of this Act, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oaths prescribed for public officers.
Sec. 3. Any deputy coroner appointed by virtue hereof shall receive for his service such compensation as may be prescribed by the board of county commissioners.
Sec. 4. Every deputy coroner appointed by virtue hereof shall 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.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. 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 29th day of May, 1959.