Private Acts of 1982 Chapter 337

SECTION 1. In McMinn County, the distribution and/or display of campaign posters, signs or other campaign materials and the solicitation of votes for or against any person or political party or position on a question, shall be prohibited within the building in which the polling place for voters is located and on any grounds or parking areas surrounding or adjacent to the polling place; or in the alternative, such distribution, display and solicitation shall not be permitted within three hundred (300) feet of the polling place.

SECTION 2. The officer of elections shall measure off three hundred (300) feet from the entrances to the building in which the election is to be held and shall place boundary signs at that distance or the officer shall place boundary signs at the edges of the grounds and parking areas of the polling place, whichever is applicable.

SECTION 3. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a majority of the number of qualified voters of McMinn County voting in an election on the question of whether or not the act should be approved. The ballots used in the regular August election to be held on August 5, 1982 shall have printed on them the substance of this act and the voters shall vote for or against its approval. The votes 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 McMinn 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: April 6, 1982.