Private Acts of 2010 Chapter 75

SECTION 1.  Hancock County is hereby authorized to own and operate a home care organization as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-11-201(20), in Hancock, Claiborne, Grainger and Hawkins counties, provided such organization is owned and operated in compliance with statutes and regulations applicable to home care organizations generally.

SECTION 2.  This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by two-thirds (2/3) vote of the county legislative body of Hancock County, such approval to be within sixty (60) days following the approval of this act by the governor, or alternatively, as the case may be, sixty (60) days following the date that this act becomes effective without the explicit approval of the governor.  Such approval or disapproval shall be certified to the secretary of state by the presiding officer of the county legislative body of Hancock County.

SECTION 3.  For the purposes of the action hereon by the county legislative body of Hancock County, this act shall take effect upon becoming law, the public welfare requiring it.  For all other purposes, it shall take effect upon being approved by the county legislative body of Hancock County, as provided in Section 2.

Passed: June 3, 2010.