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O.C.G.A. § 45-16-6 — Participation in training course | Georgia Code
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TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 16. Coroners, 45-16-1 through 45-16-80.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

45-16-6. Participation in training course.

During every calendar year they are in office, every coroner and deputy coroner shall be required, as a condition of continuing to serve as coroner, to take a training course approved by the Georgia Coroner's Training Council pursuant to Code Section 45-16-66.Any coroner or deputy coroner taking the approved training course provided by the Georgia Police Academy shall receive the same expense allowance per day as that received by a member of the General Assembly, plus reimbursement of actual transportation costs while traveling by public carrier or the legal mileage rate for the use of a personal automobile and registration fees for such training course.Such expense allowance and reimbursements shall be paid by the county governing authority from county funds.In the event, however, that a coroner or deputy is prevented in any calendar year from taking such training by sickness or other providential cause, the requirement of training for that year may be waived by the Georgia Coroner's Training Council.

(Code 1933, § 21-108, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 543, § 3; Code 1981, §45-16-8; Code 1981, §45-16-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 843, § 3; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1539, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 333, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1436, § 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 356, § 1.)

Cross references.

- Annual training requirement for certified coroners, § 45-16-66.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Number of training hours required.

- O.C.G.A. §§ 45-16-6 and45-16-66(a) should be construed as requiring coroners in Georgia to take 32 hours of training per year, beginning on July 1, 1990; legislation which purported to require 24 hours of training, effective January 1, 1991, was repealed by a subsequent enactment of the General Assembly during the same session. 1990 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 90-41.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 18 C.J.S., Coroners, § 27 et seq.

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