Private Acts of 1937 Chapter 2

SECTION 1. That Quarterly County Courts of counties of the State having a population of more than three hundred thousand, according to the Federal Census of 1930, or any subsequent Federal Census, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to employ a County Attorney on a yearly salary basis which salary shall be set by the Quarterly County Court in such amount which it deems reasonable, payable in equal monthly installments; that said appointment shall be on a full time basis; that nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting the employment of special counsel or special attorneys by such counties whenever such employment may be deemed necessary or expedient.

SECTION 2. That the Quarterly County Courts employing County Attorneys under the provisions of this Act are hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe the duties of such County Attorneys, including especially the authority to require that such County Attorneys shall without additional compensation file and prosecute all suits in such counties for the collection of delinquent State and County taxes.

SECTION 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: January 7, 1937.