Private Acts of 1961 Chapter 395

SECTION 1.  That Hamilton County, Tennessee, through its County Council, is hereby authorized and empowered to regulate the operation of garbage trucks and vehicles in the unincorporated territory of said County and the flow of traffic of garbage trucks on the streets and highways to the designated dumps, by requiring that any one in the garbage business within the unincorporated territories of Hamilton County, Tennessee, whether an individual or corporation, operating for profit, must use enclosed and/or covered garbage trucks or vehicles to prevent refuse from being blown, dropped or spilled and that any person or corporation guilty of violating this requirement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined $25.00 and costs.  Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue, shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.

SECTION 2. That all employers, either individuals or corporations, engaged in such operation of garbage trucks or vehicles within the unincorporated territory of Hamilton County, Tennessee, shall register with the county clerk evidence of surety bond of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each employer payable to Hamilton County.

SECTION 3.  That this Act shall have no effect unless the same be approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the legislative body of Hamilton County, Tennessee to which this Act applies within thirty (30) days after its passage.  The presiding officer of such body shall proclaim its approval or non-approval and certify the same to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 4.  That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 17, 1961.