Private Acts of 1949 Chapter 90

SECTION 1.  That the County Court of Hamilton County, under the provisions of Section Nine of Article Eleven of the Constitution, is vested with powers to pass ordinances with regard to private and local affairs hereinafter expressly set forth, by the affirmative vote of a majority of not less than four-fifths of the total number of members thereof; a meeting for the purpose of using these powers may be called on notice given by the County Judge or three members of the County Court.

SECTION 2.  That an ordinance under the powers which it is deemed expedient to vest in said County Court shall only be valid after three readings at intervals of not less than ten days of the ordinance; after the first reading and within the ensuing ten days publication of the action entered upon the minutes shall be made two times in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in said county; the second reading shall be at a regular or at an adjourned meeting, the date of which shall be fixed at the first reading, and the third reading shall be after a similar publication and at a regular or an adjourned meeting, the date of which was so fixed; each publication notice shall be sufficient to inform the public as to the content of the ordinance and upon passage the ordinance shall be enrolled for public inspection in an indexed book in the office of the County Court Clerk, and all expense of publication and enrollment shall be paid by the county.

SECTION 3.  That acting as herein set forth, said County Court, if the Hamilton County Council fails to make adequate provision for a Hamilton County Patrol, may by ordinance at any time after July 1, 1949:  (1) Establish a Hamilton County Police Patrol of not more than ten members who shall be selected in the manner provided by said ordinance and serve under the direction of the Sheriff upon being commissioned as Deputy Sheriffs by him and until the revocation of any commission issued; (2) Fix the compensation of the members of said Patrol at not more than $300 per month, such compensation to be earned only during such time as the members are duly commissioned as deputies of the Sheriff; and (3) Provide that the compensation of those who serve as members of the Patrol shall be an obligation of said county and payable in the same manner as the compensation of other employees of said county.

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

Passed:  January 31, 1949.