Pennsylvania Act 1919-450 — POST MORTEMS, COMPENSATION OF PHYSICIANS

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POST MORTEMS, COMPENSATION OF PHYSICIANS
                 Act of Jul. 22, 1919, P.L. 1113, No. 450             Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to coroners and the holding of post-mortems in the
        several counties of this Commonwealth having a population of
        not more than fifty thousand inhabitants, and providing for
        the payment of the physician or surgeon making the post-
        mortem examination.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases hereafter,
     in counties having a population of not more than fifty thousand
     inhabitants, when an inquest shall be had on the body of a
     deceased person, and it shall be deemed necessary by the coroner
     to call upon a physician or surgeon to make a post-mortem
     examination, the compensation to be paid by the county to such
     surgeon or physician for such services shall, in all cases, be
     fixed by the president judge of the courts of the said county
     where the said inquest is held.