Private Acts of 1977 Chapter 127

SECTION 1. A litigation tax of two dollars ($2.00) shall be taxed as part of the cost in all civil and criminal actions in the General Sessions Court, the Circuit Court, the Criminal Court, and the Chancery Court for Washington County, Tennessee.

SECTION 2. The Clerk of each court hereinabove set forth will collect the litigation tax and pay the same into a separate fund which is to be specifically designated as the Cooperative Law Library Fund, said Fund to be used exclusively for the purpose of maintaining existing volumes in an updated and current manner and for the acquisition of new legal work to be kept in the Cooperative Law Library jointly maintained by the Washington County Bar Association and East Tennessee State University.

SECTION 3. All expenditures paid from the fund are to be made by the County Judge upon the authorization of the Quarterly County Court.

SECTION 4. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Quarterly County Court of Washington County before December 31, 1977. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Quarterly County Court of Washington County and certified by the presiding officer to the Secretary of State for the State of Tennessee.
PASSED: May 19, 1977