Private Acts of 1951 Chapter 374

SECTION 1.  COMPILER'S NOTE:  This section was amendatory to Section 2 of the General Sessions Court act, which is included in this compilation.

SECTION 2.  COMPILER’S NOTE: [Deleted by Private Acts of 2004, Chapter 73]

SECTION 3.  COMPILER'S NOTE:  This section amended Section 9 of the original General Sessions Court Act, which is included in this compilation.

SECTION 4.  That the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Hamblen County shall serve as the Clerk of the Sessions court in all matters to be heard and determined under Section 2 hereof, said Clerk to have all the power by law conferred upon Clerks of the Circuit Courts and Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court insofar as the same pertains to said matters, and shall receive the same costs, fees and emoluments as are now allowed by law to Clerks of the Circuit Court and Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court for such service.  Upon the transfer of jurisdiction from the General Sessions Court to the Chancery Court, all records pertaining to domestic relations cases held or maintained in the General Sessions Court under the authority of Chapter 374 of the Private Acts of 1951 shall remain in the custody of the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Hamblen County.

SECTION 5.  That the Legislature expressly declares that each section, sub-section, paragraph and provision of this Act is severable, and that should any portion of this Act be held unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the remainder of this Act, but such unconstitutional or invalid portion shall be elided, and the Legislature declares that it would have enacted this Act with such unconstitutional or invalid portions elided therefrom.

SECTION 6.  That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and they are hereby repealed as of the date this Act becomes effective.

SECTION 7.  That this Act go into effect from and after the date of its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 6, 1951.