Chap. 308.—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
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Approved March 29, 1934

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-eight hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4814. How burial of deceased and expense of coroner’s
proceedings shall be paid—lIf the dead person be a stranger, whether
an inquest be taken, or the coroner called to view the body think it un-
necessary to have an inquest, he shall cause the body to be decently bur-
ied. If the coroner certify that he believes the deceased has not suffic-
lent estate, in this State, to pay the expenses of the burial, they shall
when allowed by the court of the coroner’s county or corporation, be
paid out of the treasury. If the deceased has estate out of which the
burial expenses can be paid, or any part thereof, then such estate shall
be taken for such purpose. If the deceased be not a stranger and no
other person causes the body to be buried, the coroner, whether an in-
quest be taken or not, shall cause the body to be decently buried; and
if there is sufficient estate of the deceased to pay the burial expenses,
or any part thereof, then such estate shall be taken for such purpose;
but if there be no such estate then such burial expense shall be paid out
of the treasury of the county or corporation of which the deceased was
a resident at the time of his death. If the deceased be a stranger the
expense of the coroner’s proceedings shall be paid out of the State
treasury, and if not a stranger, out of the treasury of the county or
corporation of which he was resident at the time of death. No expense
incurred either for burial or for the coroner’s proceedings shall be
paid until allowed by the court of the coroner’s county or corporation
to which his return is properly to be made, except that in cities having
a city manager form of government it shall not be necessary to have any
expense account herein mentioned, payable out of the city treasury, pre-
sented to the court for allowance.