Health - Historical Notes

The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.

1. Private Acts of 1917, Chapter 653, amended Chapter 85, Public Acts of 1915, Section 12, which regulated the practice of optometry within the State so as to make the terms of that Act inapplicable to Bradley County.
2. Private Acts of 1975, Chapter 155, which was rejected by the Quarterly Court of Bradley County and therefore never became an effective law, would have amended Chapter 846, Private Acts of 1947, published herein, by rewriting Section 12 of the Act to provide for a five member Board of Directors for the Bradley County Memorial Hospital.  The Quarterly Court of the County would select two of the Directors at its September meeting in 1975, and would choose two more Directors at the September meeting of the Court in 1977.  The Bradley County Medical Society would select one member prior to October, 1975.  All members were to serve four year terms.  The elections, or appointments, of the Directors would be certified by the County Court Clerk and no one who derived as much as 5% of their total income, or as much as $1,000 of their gross income would be eligible to serve as a member of the hospital Board of Directors.
3. Private Acts of 1980, Chapter 321, regulated mobile homes, mobile home parks, travel trailers, and travel trailer parks in Bradley County.
4. Private Acts of 1984, Chapter 244, regulated in Bradley County, exclusive of incorporated areas, mobile homes, mobile home parks and travel trailer parks and to repeal Chapter 321 of the Private Acts of 1980.
5. Private Acts of 1988, Chapter 144, made it unlawful to carry or haul trash or garbage into Bradley County for the purpose of disposing in a landfill owned by Bradley County or in public garbage receptacles owned or provided by Bradley County.   Any person violating the provisions of this act were subject to a civil penalty of $250.  This act was repealed by Private Acts of 2000, Chapter 77.
6. Private Acts of 1990, Chapter 215, repealed Chapter 244 of the Private Acts of 1984 relative to mobile homes in Bradley County.