O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-16-66 (2019)

Annual training requirement for certified coroners; fees

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) In order to maintain the status of a certified coroner, each person certified as such shall complete such additional training per annum during each year in which he or she serves as coroner as provided by the Georgia Coroner’s Training Council in its rules and regulations, but such training course shall not be less than 16 hours per year. Each coroner and deputy coroner shall file a certificate of additional training with such council. (b) No person serving as a coroner shall charge or collect any fee, charge, or cost of any kind for his services, including those fees specified in this article, unless such person is a certified coroner.

History

(Code 1981, § 45-16-66, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 797, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 45; Ga. L. 1990, p. 333, § 4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1735, § 5; Ga. L. 1994, p. 356, § 2.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Participation in training courses, § 45-16-6. OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Number of training hours required. - O.C.G.A. §§ 45-16-6 and 45-16-66(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of training, effective January 1, 1991, was repealed by a subsequent enactment of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.