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Coroner

1874/1875
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 4, and 9, of chapter 197, and section 14 of chapter 180 of the Code of 1873, in reference to Coroners’ Juries and the Pay thereof, and of Coroners.
1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections of the charter of the city of Richmond
1899/1900
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases, approved March 2, 1892.
1895/1896
An ACT providing for the appointment and removal of coroners, and for the enacting and re-enacting of section 891 of the code of Virginia, 1887.
1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto
1902/1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3944 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto
1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3950 of the Code of Virginia, regulating compensation of coroners and constables.
1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3938 of the Code of Virginia, relative to duties of a coroner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 891 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved December 8, 1903, relative to appointment of coroners.
1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4813 of the Code of Virginia
1922
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and
An ACT to change the method of appointment of coroner for the city of Newport News, and to provide for his election by the council of said city, and to fix his term of office and compensation.
1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1568 and 1581 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 66 of the said Code on the subject of vital statistics, section 1727 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 72 of the said Code on the subject of the practice of embalming and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies, and sections 4806, 4814 and 4818 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 190 of the said Code on the subject of coroners’ inquests.
1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4806, 4811, 4812 and 4815 of the Code of Virginia, section 4806 having been amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, and to repeal sections 4809 and 4984 of the said Code, all of the said sections being in relation to coroner's inquests.
1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4818 of the Code of Virginia, relating to coroners’ and constables’ fees.
1932
An ACT to provide for the disposal of certain personal property coming into possession of coroners, where persons entitled to such property are known, and cannot by reasonable diligence, be ascertained.
An ACT to prescribe the fees to be paid the coroner of the city of Portsmouth for certain services.
1934
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 24, 1932, entitled an act to prescribe the fees to be paid the coroner of the city of Portsmouth for certain services.
An ACT to amend an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1908, providing a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 71-A, relating to the appointment of the coroner for the said city, and providing his duties and compensation.
An ACT to provide that inquests over the bodies of persons who meet with sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or who die without medical attention, where the death, or the injury which resulted in death, occurred in Henrico county and the dead body, or the person so injured, is taken to any morgue, hospital or other place in the city of Richmond, shall be held by the coroner of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4814 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to coroners’ inquests and burial of SBT B
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of coroners.
1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, relating to reports of accidents, so as to permit the inspection of such reports at any reasonable time.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Leesburg, in the county of Loudoun, Virginia. and to repeal all prior acts and amendments thereto creating a charter for the said town.
1940
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to coroners’ inquests.
1942
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the functions and duties of coroners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section Nineteen-o of an act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926.
An ACT to repeal Section 71-A of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.”
1946
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the functions and duties of coroners.
An ACT to revise the laws of Virginia with respect to post-mortem examinations, and to that end to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 190-A and 15 new sections numbered 4806-a to 4806-0, both inclusive, creating a Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations and prescribing its powers, duties and functions; to provide for the appointment of a Chief Medical Examiner, and to prescribe his powers and duties with respect to post-mortem examinations and investigations ; to provide for the dis- position of certain dead bodies and of any property or estate of such deceased persons; to amend Section 1727, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to embalming dead bodies, and Sections 2817 and 2821 of said Code relating to the service of process and summons by coroners and others and the appoint- ment of criers for courts; and to repeal Sections 2815, 2818 and 2819 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners, Chapter 190 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners and coroner’s inquests, and Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 relating to disposition by coroners of money or property of deceased persons.
1950
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-28 of the Code of 1950, so as to provide that the State shall pay coroner’s fees in certain cases.
1952
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19-21 to 19-26, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the Chief Medical Examiner and the appointment, powers and duties of coroners, so as to substitute the term medical examiner for the word coroner wherever the latter word appears in the sections; to transfer the powers and duties of coroners to medical examiners; and to provide that the office of coroner shall hereafter be designated and known as the office of medical examiner.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19-23 as amended and 32-836 of the Code of Virginia, which sections relate respectively to duties of coroners and registrars, so as to provide how fees to such coroners and registrars be paid.
1968
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-7, 68-85 as amended, and 68-86 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the organization within the Department of Welfare and Institutions and the appointment, compensation and terms of members of certain advisory boards.