TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

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

ARTICLE 3 GEORGIA CORONER'S TRAINING COUNCIL

45-16-65. Powers and duties of council generally.

The council is vested with the following functions, powers, and responsibilities:

1. To make all the necessary rules and regulations to carry out this article;
2. To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency, or instrumentality of the state government or its political subdivisions in furtherance of the purposes of this article;
3. To approve schools and to prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools;
4. To issue a certificate of certification to any coroner satisfactorily complying with an approved training program;
5. To withdraw or suspend the certification of any coroner who has performed or is performing the duties of a coroner in violation of this chapter;
6. To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; and
7. To prescribe, by rules and regulations, the minimum requirements for curricula and standards composing the initial in-service, advanced, specialized, and continuing training courses for certification.

(Code 1981, §45-16-65, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 797, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 45; Ga. L. 1990, p. 333, § 3.)