Private Acts of 167-68 Chapter 35

SECTION 1. The salary of the Commissioner of Highways of Sullivan County shall be Nine Thousand ($9,000.00) Dollars a year, payable in equal monthly installments out of the treasury of the county. If at any time the General Assembly shall by general law increase the maximum compensation of other elected county officials by amendment to Section 8-2403, Tennessee Code Annotated, the compensation of the Commissioner of Highways of Sullivan County shall automatically be increased to the amount specified for elected officials in Section 8- 2403, effective at the same time as the increase provided by any such amendment.

SECTION 2. Chapter 432 of the Private Acts of 1949, Chapter 703 of the Private Acts of 1951, Chapter 211 of the Private Acts of 1953, and Chapter 3 of the Private Acts of 1961 are repealed.

SECTION 3. 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 this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

SECTION 4. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the quarterly county court of Sullivan County at or before the next regular meeting of the court occurring more than thirty (30) days after its approval by the governor. Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the court and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 5. For the purpose of ratifying this act as provided in Section 4, it shall take effect on becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, and for all other purposes, on September 1, 1970.

Passed: March 22, 1967.