If the coroner fails to deliver to the treasurer within 120 days after any inquest upon a dead body all money and proceeds from the sale of property found upon the body, unless claimed in the meantime by the public administrator or other legal representative of the decedent, the district attorney shall proceed against the coroner to recover the money or proceeds by civil action in the name of the county.

(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 77, Sec. 3.)