Public Acts of 1983 Chapter 353

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or attach any type of show-card, poster, or advertising material or device, including election campaign literature, on any kind of poles, towers, or fixtures of any public utility company, whether privately or publicly owned or as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 65-4-101, unless legally authorized to do so.

SECTION 2. This Act shall apply to any county having a population of not less than eighty-eight thousand seven hundred (88,700) nor more than eighty-eight thousand eight hundred (88,800), not less than one hundred forty thousand (140,000) and not more than one hundred forty-five thousand (145,000), any county having a population of not less than seventy-four thousand five hundred (74,500) nor more than seventy-four thousand six hundred (74,600) according to the 1980 Federal Census of Population or any subsequent Federal Census, and any county having a metropolitan form of government, which elects to come under its provisions upon approval by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the county legislative body of any county to which it may apply. Its approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the county legislative body of such county and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 3. The provisions of this Act shall also apply to any county having a population of not less than 319,625 and not more than 319,725 according to the 1980 Federal Census or any subsequent Federal Census.

SECTION 4. The provisions of this Act shall also apply in counties having a population of

according to the 1980 Federal Census of Population or any subsequent Federal Census.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: May 5, 1983.