Private Acts of 1953 Chapter 233

SECTION 1. That disabled Judges of any Court of General Sessions of Montgomery County, Tennessee after ten years of consecutive service may apply for retirement and be retired.

SECTION 2. That any Judge of any Court of General Sessions of Montgomery County, Tennessee, who shall have been Judge of that Court for the ten consecutive years next preceding and who has attained the age of seventy (70) years and who may have become permanently disabled by reason of illness or injury to perform his duties, may apply for retirement and be retired as hereinafter set out.

SECTION 3. Said application shall be made to the County Judge, who shall investigate the facts and endorse upon the application his approval or disapproval of it; and shall then file it with the County Trustee.

SECTION 4. If the application shall be approved, the office of such Judge shall at once become vacant and the vacancy shall be certified to the Governor.

SECTION 5. Upon approving any such application, the County Judge shall certify this fact to the County Trustee, and there shall be paid by way of a pension to the Judge so retired, for the remainder of his term of office the sum of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE ($225.00) DOLLARS per month from the general fund of the County, to be paid monthly on the first day of each month, less any sum received by such retired Judge and his wife as Social Security Benefits.

SECTION 6. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: March 24, 1953.