The Greater New York Charter as enacted in 1897

(Albany :  Weed-Parsons,  c1897.)

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APPENDIX  IX.
 

THE PROVISIONS OF THE NEW YORK CITY CONSOLIDATION ACT
RELATING TO CORONERS CONTINUED IN FORCE BY § 1571 OF
THE GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER, ante.

L. 1882, Ch. 410.

CHAPTER XXI,

TITLE Jf. — The Coroners and Inquests.

Election,    Term of office.    Removal.

§ 1766. Superseded by § 1571 of the Greater New York Charter, ante.

Salaries and contingent expenses.

§ 1767. Superseded by § 1571 of the Greater New York Charter, ante.

Clerks and stenographer.    Salaries.    Minutes.

§ 1768. Superseded by § 1571 of the Greater New York Charter, ante.

Coroners' physicians,

§ 1769. Each coroner of said city shall, on assuming office, appoint
a qualified physician, who shall be a resident in said city, and shall be
known as a " coroner's physician," Any vacancy in the office of coro¬
ner's physicians shall be filled by the board of coroners. The board of
coroners, for cause, may remove the physicians appointed by them,

L, 1878, ch. 256, § 3 (Corap. 1464).

Id,; salaries,

§ 1770. It shall be the duty of the board of estimate and apportion¬
ment, from time to time, as it may determine, to fix the salary to be
paid to the physicians appointed as In the preceding section directed,
but the salary to be paid to each of said physicians shall not, in any
one year, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. The salaries pro¬
vided for in the preceding sections of this title shall.be paid monthly by
the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty.

Id., § 4 (Comp, 1464).

Scientific experts; employment of,

§ 1771. It shall be lawful for the several coroners, with the written
consent first had and obtained of the district attorney and a justice of
the supreme court within said city and county, to employ any scientific
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