Section 600.2561 - Coroners; compensation or fees.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.2561 Coroners; compensation or fees.
Sec. 2561.
Coroners shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be determined by the board of supervisors, or to the following fees:
(1) For all services rendered by them, the same fees as are herein allowed to sheriffs for similar services.
(2) For the view of a dead body, and for taking and returning an inquisition thereof, $5.00.
(3) For traveling to the place of such view, 10 cents for each mile both ways.
(4) For every subpoena, warrant or venire for a jury, 25 cents.
(5) Swearing each witness, 10 cents; but the charges for swearing witnesses in any one case, shall not exceed 50 cents.
(6) For taking a recognizance, 25 cents.
(7) All the fees herein allowed to coroners, except for such services authorized to be performed as sheriff as are not chargeable to the county, shall be allowed and paid by the proper county.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 73, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963