Private Acts of 1980 Chapter 214

SECTION 1. Chapter 98 of the Private Acts of 1973, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Upon ratification of this Act in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of this Act, the institution presently known as the Warren County Penal Farm shall be known as the Warren County Workhouse and shall be a county workhouse under the provisions of Title 41 of the Tennessee Code Annotated.

SECTION 3. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the county legislative body of Warren County before November 1, 1980. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Warren County legislative body and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 4. For the purpose 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: March 3, 1980.