06 LC 38
0157S
The
House Committee on Appropriations offers the following substitute to HB
508:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to death investigations and coroners, so as to increase the
investigation fee for coroners; to provide for related matters; to provide an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to death investigations and coroners, is amended by striking subsection (b) of
Code Section 45-16-27, relating to inquests and
coroneŕs
investigation fee, and inserting in its place a new subsection (b) to read as
follows:
"(b)
On and after July 1,
1999
2006,
coroners shall be entitled to an investigation fee of
$125.00
$250.00
where no jury is impaneled or a fee of $250.00 where a jury is impaneled and
shall be paid upon receipt of a monthly statement to the county treasury. A
deputy coroner shall receive the same fee as the coroner for the performance of
services in place of the coroner and shall be paid upon receipt of a monthly
statement to the county treasury. Such fee shall be paid within ten days after
receipt of the
coroneŕs
monthly statement by the county where the investigation or inquest is held
except in counties where the coroner receives an annual salary, in which case no
fee shall be imposed upon the county by such salaried coroner or deputy
coroner."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall be come effective on July 1, 2006.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.