Private Acts of 1981 Chapter 5

SECTION 1.  Chapter 305 of the Private Acts of 1967 is repealed in its entirety.

SECTION 2.  A litigation tax in the amount of seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) for criminal actions and five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25) for civil actions shall be assessed as part of the cost of such actions filed in the general sessions court, circuit court or chancery court of Coffee County.

SECTION 3.  The clerks of such courts shall collect the litigation tax and transmit it to the Coffee County General Fund.  The revenue from such tax shall be appropriated for the construction, improvement, renovation, or maintenance of improved jail facilities in Coffee County.  Such tax revenue may also be used for debt service on bonds for such jail facility.  Any revenue from the litigation tax levied by this act in excess of the amount needed for the jail facilities may be used for the purpose of maintenance, repair and construction of the Coffee County Court House and Court House Annex.

SECTION 4.  Any revenue remaining in the Court House Maintenance, Repair and Construction Fund, created by Chapter 305 of the Private Acts of 1967 and repealed by this Act, upon the effective date of this Act shall be transferred to the Coffee County General Fund and appropriated for the improved jail facilities.

SECTION 5.  This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the county legislative body of Coffee County.  Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of such legislative body and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 6.  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 5.

Passed:  February 16, 1981.