Private Acts of 1961 Chapter 92

COMPILER'S NOTE: This Act was repealed by Private Acts of 1982, Chapter 236, inasfar as it is in conflict with that Act.

SECTION 1. That Chapter 481, Private Acts of 1949 be amended so that the General Sessions Court in Sumner County, Tennessee, shall be the Juvenile Court of said County with all the jurisdiction, powers, duties and authority vested by law in the Juvenile Courts of this State and to divest from the County Judge of said county all jurisdiction in juvenile cases.

SECTION 2. That Chapter 481, Private Acts of 1949 be amended so that the General Sessions Judge for his services as Juvenile Judge be paid $3,800.00 per year in twelve equal monthly installments from the County Treasury.

The purpose of this amendment is to clearly provide that compensation of the General Sessions and Juvenile Judge for the General Sessions and Juvenile Court of Sumner County shall be Three Thousand Eight Hundred ($3,800.00) Dollars per year for services rendered as Juvenile Court Judge and Eighteen Thousand Seven Hundred ($18,700.00) Dollars per year for services rendered as General Sessions Court Judge, or a total compensation of Twenty-two Thousand Five Hundred ($22,500.00) Dollars per year, beginning September 1, 1974.

SECTION 3. That Chapter 481, Private Acts of 1949 be amended so that the Circuit Court Clerk in said county shall be the Clerk of the Juvenile Court and perform all the powers, duties, and functions in that Court now performed by the County Court Clerk who shall have no further authority or responsibility in matters of the Juvenile Court.

SECTION 4. That the provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be severable. If any of its sections, provisions or parts be held unconstitutional or void, the remainder of this Act shall continue in full force and effect, it being the legislative intent that this Act would have been adopted even if such unconstitutional or void matter had not been included herein.

SECTION 5. That this Act shall be of no force and effect until it shall have been approved by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the Quarterly County Court of Sumner County, Tennessee.

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

Passed: February 15, 1961.