42-4-3. When coroner to act as keeper of jail.

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The county coroner shall be keeper of the jail when the sheriff is imprisoned or absent from the county leaving no deputy.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 564; Code 1868, § 628; Code 1873, § 587; Code 1882, § 587; Penal Code 1895, § 1122; Penal Code 1910, § 1151; Code 1933, § 77-105.

Cross references

Coroners generally, § 45-16-1 et seq.

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