The coroner must within thirty days after an inquest upon a dead body deliver to the county treasurer any money or other property which may be found upon the body, not expended for burial expenses as provided in § 7-14-3, unless claimed in the meantime by the legal representatives of the decedent. If he fails to do so, the treasurer may proceed against him for its recovery by a civil action in the name of the county.

Source: PolC 1877, ch 21, § 84; CL 1887, § 679; RPolC 1903, § 914; RC 1919, § 5970; SDC 1939, § 12.1103.