Private Acts of 1997 Chapter 27

SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Wilson County Traffic
Regulation Cost Act”.
SECTION 2. It is the intent and purpose of this act to require and authorize the collection
of a special court cost for each summons, warrant, citation, presentment or indictment which is
filed and heard with the Criminal Court of Wilson County, Tennessee, or the General Sessions
Court of Wilson County, Tennessee, and which involves conduct or events occurring within
Wilson County but outside the city limits of Lebanon, Mt. Juliet and Watertown, Tennessee, that
lead to the filing of charges for a criminal and/or traffic offense, and which involves prosecution
by a county officer.
SECTION 3. The special court cost authorized under this act is ten dollars ($10.00) and
shall be charged and collected over and above other authorized court costs by the clerk of the
Criminal Court of Wilson County, Tennessee, and the Clerk of the General Sessions Court of
Wilson County, Tennessee, as provided herein.
SECTION 4. The court cost funds shall be collected by the clerks for all criminal and/or
traffic violations which are prosecuted by county officers in Wilson County, Tennessee, and
which involve offenses arising from conduct occurring within Wilson County but outside the city
limits of Lebanon, Mt. Juliet and Watertown, Tennessee.
SECTION 5. The funds collected from this special court cost by the clerks shall be
transferred to the Wilson County Trustee on a monthly basis, and the trustee shall establish a
special fund to allow such monies to be used by Wilson County, Tennessee, for traffic regulation
and enforcement.
SECTION 6. All funds collected under the provisions of this act shall be used for the
purpose of traffic regulation and enforcement within Wilson County but outside the city limits of
Lebanon, Mt. Juliet and Watertown, Tennessee.
SECTION 7. The Provisions of this act shall in no manner repeal, modify or interfere
with the requirements to collect court costs under any other public or private laws applicable to
Wilson County, Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, and Watertown, Tennessee.
SECTION 8. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or
circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of
the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the
provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 9. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote
of the county legislative body of Wilson County. Its approval or nonapproval shall be
proclaimed by the presiding officer of the county legislative body of Wilson County and certified
to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 10. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall
be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, it shall
become effective upon being approved as provided in Section 9.

Passed: April 3, 1997.