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PDF versionCOMPILER’S NOTE: This Act must be read in conjunction with Private Acts of 1947, Chapter 529. Section 1 designates where the amendment should be placed in Private Acts of 1947, Chapter 529. Section 2 of this act amends Private Acts of 1947, Chapter 529, but does not designated where to place it in the Act.
SECTION 2. The Mayor of the City of Memphis and the Mayor of the County of Shelby may at their discretion, appoint in writing for a period of at least one (1) year, their designee to serve in the place and stead of the respective Mayors; provided, however, that the Mayor of the City of Memphis shall appoint the Director or an employee of the Division of Public Service of the City of Memphis and the Mayor of the County of Shelby shall appoint the Director or an employee of the Division of Public Works of Shelby County. Said designees shall have all the powers of the respective Mayors which may make such designation as are conferred on said Mayors by this act, including the right to vote. In the event either Mayor’s remaining term of office is less than one (1) year, the appointment shall be for that period. The Mayor may at any time personally exercise the right to vote in place of his designee.
SECTION 3. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Quarterly County Court of Shelby County and certified by him to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 4. For the purposes of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, it shall become effective upon being approved as provided in Section 3.
Passed: May 19, 1977.