Privates Acts of 2019, Chapter 16

SECTION 1. Chapter 38 of the Private Acts of 2018, and any other acts amendatory thereto, are repealed in their entireties.

SECTION 2. The County Mayor shall appoint the Dickson County Highway Engineer, subject to confirmation by the county legislative body. The appointed Highway Engineer's term begins on the earlier to occur of a vacancy in the office and September 1, 2022.

SECTION 3. The Dickson County Highway Engineer shall serve under the direction of the County Mayor.

SECTION 4. The Dickson County Highway Engineer shall have the qualifications, term of office, salary, duties, take an oath of office and make a bond, and be replaced in the event of a vacancy in the office as set forth in the Tennessee County Uniform Highway Law, compiled in Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54, Chapter 7. Any vacancy in the office of Dickson County Highway Engineer shall be filled by the County Mayor, subject to confirmation by the county legislative body.

SECTION 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as having the effect of removing the duly elected Highway Engineer from office or abridging the term of the currently serving Highway Engineer prior to the end of the term for which such official was elected.

SECTION 6. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the legislative body of Dickson County. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the county legislative body and certified to the secretary of state.

SECTION 7. 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 as provided in Section 6.       

Passed:  May 10, 2019.