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PDF versionCOMPILER’S NOTE: Section 1 of this act amended Private Acts of 1961, Chapter 330 which is printed herein.
SECTION 2. If such offices of highway commissioners are approved of by the voters of Cocke County pursuant to the provisions of this Act, then such persons desiring to hold such approved offices may then qualify to run for office in the Regular August Election of 1980 notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary.
SECTION 3. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a majority of the number of qualified voters of Cocke County, voting in an election on the question of whether or not the Act should be approved. The ballots used in the Preferential Presidential Primary to be held in May 1980, shall have printed on them the substance of this Act and the voters shall bote for or against its approval. The voters cast on the question shall be canvassed and the results proclaimed by the County Election Commissioners and certified by them to the Secretary of State as provided by law in the case of General Elections. The qualifications of voters voting on the question shall be the same as those required for participation in General Elections. All laws applicable to General Elections shall apply to the determination of the approval or rejection of this Act. The cost of the election shall be paid by Cocke County.
SECTION 4. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this Act, as provided in Section 3, it shall be effective upon becoming a law, but for all other purposes the provisions of the Act shall be effective only upon being approved as provided in Section 3.
Passed: January 24, 1980.