Private Acts of 1982 Chapter 201

SECTION 1.  There is levied a privilege tax on litigation in the amount of five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25) upon all original civil suits and cases filed in Circuit, Chancery and General Sessions Courts in Hardin County.

SECTION 2.  There is levied a privilege tax on litigation of seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) in all criminal cases instituted in the Circuit Court in Hardin County.

SECTION 3.  The term "case" shall include ex parte as well as adversary or contested proceedings.

SECTION 4.  The privilege tax on litigation shall be collected by the clerks of the respective courts and taxed as a part of the costs in each suit or case.  Such clerks shall be accountable for and shall pay over the revenue to the county Trustee quarterly, not later than the tenth (10th) of the month immediately following the end of the quarter in which such collections are made.

SECTION 5.  The county Trustee shall deposit the amounts collected in the Hardin County General Fund.

SECTION 6.  Chapter 201 of the Private Acts of 1970 is repealed in its entirety.

SECTION 7.  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 8.  This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved  by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the county legislative body of Hardin County before September 6, 1982.  Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the legislative body of Hardin County and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 9.  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 8.

Passed:  February 18, 1982.