Private Acts of 1959 Chapter 119

SECTION 1. That the Quarterly County Court of the County of Shelby, shall be and hereby is authorized and empowered to enter into a contract, or contracts, with an institution, or institutions, public or private, or with an individual, or individuals, requiring said institution, or institutions, or said individual, or individuals, within said County to render scientific and medical assistance in connection with law enforcement problems in said County. The contracts may provide for, but shall not be limited to, the performances of autopsies, chemical and biological laboratory examinations, toxicological examinations, and such other scientific and medical examinations, investigations and experimentations as may be deemed necessary by the Quarterly County Court.

SECTION 2. That the Quarterly County Court of said County shall be, and hereby is empowered and authorized to appropriate and expend from the General Funds of the County such sums as may be deemed necessary for the purposes of effectuating the contract, or contracts, authorized by Section 1 of this Act.

SECTION 3. That any incorporated municipality within such County may join in said contracts in order to obtain the benefits thereof for the law enforcement agencies of the municipality, and may pay such portion of the authorized cost as may be agreed upon between the County and the municipality.

SECTION 4. That this Act shall be construed as supplementary to the existing contract powers and authority of such County, and is not intended to repeal any existing Act, or Acts, affecting such County.

SECTION 5. That this Act shall become effective when the same shall have been approved by the Quarterly County Court of Shelby County by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of said Court, such approval to be made by said Court within 60 days after the sine die adjournment of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1959, the public welfare requiring its becoming effective at that time, and not before such approval. The approval, or non-approval, of this Act by said Quarterly County Court of Shelby County shall be certified by the Chairman of the said Court to the Secretary of State.

Passed: March 6, 1959.