Private Acts of 1974 Chapter 167

SECTION 1.  Except for companies whose property is assessed by the Tennessee Public Service Commission, any owner or owners of real property in Haywood County who builds, erects, constructs or remodels, or who causes or allows to be built, erected, constructed or remodeled, any building or improvements upon their real property, where such construction or remodeling has a value of or costs two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) or more, shall apply for building permits from the County Assessor of Property prior to the commencement of such construction or remodeling.

Such application shall be made in writing on a form or forms to be prescribed by the Assessor of Property and provided for him by the Quarterly County Court.  The Assessor of Property shall charge a fee of five dollars ($5.00) payable to the county trustees, for each permit issued.

SECTION 2.  Failure to have such a permit as required by this act is a misdemeanor, punishable, upon conviction thereof by a fine of not less than two dollars ($2.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).

SECTION 3.  This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Quarterly County Court of Haywood County.  Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Court and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 4.  For the purpose of approving this act as provided in Section 3, it shall take effect on becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, but the other provisions of the act shall be effective only upon being approved as provided in Section 3.

Passed:  January 16, 1974.