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Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 16. CORONERS · Article 3. GEORGIA CORONER’S TRAINING COUNCIL

45-16-66. Annual training requirement for certified coroners; fees.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (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.#

  2. (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.#

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

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.

Cross references

Participation in training courses, § 45-16-6.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, page 470; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.