Private Acts of 1953 Chapter 310

SECTION 1. That the Quarterly County Courts of all counties of the State having a population of 350,000, or more, by the Federal Census of 1940, or any subsequent Federal Census, are hereby authorized to establish, by resolution, a hospitalization plan for all officials and persons regularly employed by said County and members of their families; to determine who shall be eligible to participate under said plan; to incur the expense of experts to determine the feasibility of such plan, its probable cost and administrative matters pertaining thereto; to contract with any Insurance Company properly licensed and qualified to do business in Tennessee in connection therewith, or any hospital, or hospitals, properly operating in said County, including any hospital operated wholly or in part by any county or municipality; to determine to what extent, if any, the cost of such hospitalization shall be borne by employees, by the County, or both, and fix rates based on the beneficiaries of such plan; to determine how the share of the employee, if any, shall be collected; to appropriate and pay for the share, if any, of the County; to provide for the administration of said plan and the cost in connection therewith and to do all things necessary to establish and comply with the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 2. That "officials" as referred to in this Act, shall mean all officials elected by popular vote or elected by the Quarterly County Court and who are paid a salary by the County for service rendered.

SECTION 3. That all laws, or parts of laws, in conflict herewith be, and they are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: March 26, 1953.