Local Law #1 of 2015 AMEND SECTION 12.08 OF THE PUTNAM COUNTY CHARTER ENTITLED “CORONER”

Local Law #1 of 2015
(Passed at Year End Mtg 12/22/2014)
A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND SECTION 12.08 OF THE PUTNAM COUNTY CHARTER
ENTITLED “CORONER”
Be it Enacted by the County Legislature of the County of Putnam as follows:
Section 1.
Section 12.08 of the Putnam County Charter is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 12.08. Coroner.
The Office of Coroner in the County is hereby continued. The office shall be filled by the
election of three coroners to four-year terms, except as otherwise provided in this
section. Each coroner shall have the powers and perform all the duties now or hereafter
conferred or imposed by law and perform such other and related duties as required by
the County Executive and the County Legislature. There shall be a Coordinator of
Coroners who shall be chosen annually from among the coroners by a majority vote.
The duties of the Coordinator of Coroners shall be:
1. To coordinate the schedules of the coroners of the County to insure that there is
twenty-four (24) hour coverage, seven (7) days a week;
2. To prepare and submit on behalf of the coroners the estimates of revenues and
appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year as prescribed under §7.04(3) of this
Charter;
3. To recommend to the County Executive standardized forms for use by all the
coroners of the County;
4. To insure that the office is complying with all statutes, laws, rules and regulations
of both the state and the county.
Section 2.
This Local Law shall take effect forty-five days after its passage and is subject to a
permissive referendum.