Private Acts of 1959 Chapter 220

SECTION 1.  That the County Council of Hamilton County 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 of 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 County Council of Hamilton County.

SECTION 2.  That the County Council of Hamilton County shall be and hereby is empowered and authorized to appropriate and expend from the general funds of said County, not more than $10,000 per annum, for the purposes of effectuating the contract, or contracts, authorized by Section 1 of this Act.

SECTION 3.  That this Act shall be construed as supplementary to the existing contract powers and authority of said County and is not intended, to repeal any existing Act or Acts, affecting such County.

SECTION 4.  That this Act shall have no effect unless the same shall have been approved by two-thirds vote of the County Council of Hamilton County, Tennessee, on or before the next regular meeting of said County Council of Hamilton County, Tennessee, occurring more than sixty days after its approval by the Chief Executive of this State.  Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the Chairman of the County Council of Hamilton County, Tennessee, and shall be certified by him to the Secretary of State.

Passed:  March 18, 1959.