Private Acts of 1957 Chapter 37

AN ACT to amend Chapter 125, House Bill 481, Private Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee, for the year 1953, the caption of which Act is as follows:  "AN ACT to amend Chapter No. 90 of the Private Acts of 1937, the caption of which is as follows:  AN ACT to provide a system of public roads and bridges in counties having a population of more  than 28,000 and less than 28,050, according to the Federal Census of 1930, or any subsequent census; to provide for the constructing, reconstructing and repairing of all public roads and bridges in said counties; to provide for the condemning of private property for public roads and bridges and building materials for same; to provide the levying of taxes for these purposes; to declare the violation of certain provisions of the Act to be misdemeanors; to create the office of County Highway Commissioner and define his duties; and to repeal Chapter 642 of the Private Acts of the Tennessee Legislature of 1917, and all laws in conflict with this Act.

SECTION 1.  That Section 1 of said Act be, and the same is, hereby repealed.

SECTION 2.  That the County Highway Commissioner be authorized and empowered to employ a bookkeeper to be selected by him at a salary not to exceed Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars per month to be paid from the funds of the County Highway Department in the same manner as the salaries of other employees of the County Highway Department are paid.

SECTION 3.  That the books of the County Highway Department be kept at the office of the County Highway Department.

SECTION 4.  That this Act take effect on the 8th day of July, 1957, the public welfare requiring it, but that this Act shall not become effective until the same has been approved by a two-thirds roll call vote of the members of the Quarterly County Court of Giles County, Tennessee.

Passed:  February 7, 1957.