Private Acts of 1961 Chapter 158

SECTION 1.  That Henry County, Tennessee is hereby authorized to construct a nursing home for said county and to acquire a site therefor.

SECTION 2.  That such home shall be operated so as to make available professional nursing care to non-ambulatory aged and infirm persons, whether indigent or not, residing in such county, provided that the Quarterly County Court of Henry County shall make such provision as it considers necessary and desirable for payment by such of the inhabitants of said home as are able to do so for services rendered to them by said home.

SECTION 3.  That said home shall be conducted in the manner and by the officials prescribed by the Quarterly County Court of Henry County.

SECTION 4.  That for the purpose of constructing said home and acquiring a site therefor, the Quarterly County Court of Henry County is hereby authorized to issue bonds in such amount as is considered necessary for such purpose by said Quarterly County Court.  Such bonds shall be issued and shall be payable in the manner prescribed by the County Recovery and Post War Aid Act of 1945 (Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 5-1101 to 5-1125, inclusive).

SECTION 5.  That Henry County is hereby authorized to lease or otherwise dispose of such nursing home for such period of time and upon such terms as may be determined by the Quarterly County Court of said County.

SECTION 6.  That if Section 5 of this Act or any other provision or provisions of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall ever be held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions hereof and the application thereof to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held to be invalid shall not be affected thereby.

SECTION 7.  That all laws or parts thereof in conflict herewith are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed.

SECTION 8.  That this Act shall have no effect unless the same be approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Quarterly County Court of said county.  The presiding officer of such body shall proclaim its approval or non-approval and certify the same to the Secretary of State.

Passed:  March 2, 1961.