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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 603

CHAPTER 603
(House Bill 129)
AN ACT concerning

Deputy Medical Examiners - Fees

FOR the purpose of repealing a provision that provides a set
fee as payment to a Deputy Medical Examiner for
investigations; and authorizing payment of a fee to a
Deputy Medical Examiner for investigations as provided
in the State budget.

FOR the purpose of altering the established compensation for
the investigation of a death by a deputy medical
examiner; and authorizing local governments to provide
deputy medical examiners with additional compensation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 22 - Postmortem Examiners

Section 3

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 22 - Postmortem Examiners

3.

The said Commission is hereby authorized to appoint a
deputy medical examiner, who shall be a licensed doctor of
medicine, for each county in the State; provided, however,
that an additional deputy medical examiner or examiners may
be appointed for any county whenever, in its discretion, the
said Commission shall deem it necessary or desirable to do
so. The deputy medical examiners shall be appointed from a
list containing the names of not less than two qualified
persons submitted by the medical societies of the respective
counties; provided, however, that if there be no medical
society in any county, or if the medical society of any
county fails or refuses to submit such list of names, the
said Commission shall proceed to appoint a deputy medical
examiner, or examiners, for said county. Each deputy
medical examiner shall receive A FEE AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE
STATE BUDGET as compensation [not less than twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) and not more than fifty dollars ($50.00)]
NOT LESS THAN $60 AND NOT MORE THAN $75 AS PROVIDED IN THE
STATE BUDGET for each death he investigates, in accordance
with the provisions of this article; such. A DEPUTY MEDICAL
EXAMINER MAY RECEIVE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FROM A LOCAL
GOVERNMENT. A deputy medical examiner, when it becomes
necessary, shall have the power to deputize any other