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PDF versionSECTION 1. A litigation tax of five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25) shall be assessed and taxed as part of the costs in all civil suits instituted in the courts of Franklin County, Tennessee, be the same General Sessions, Circuit or Chancery, and a litigation tax of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be assessed and taxed as part of the costs in all criminal actions originating in the courts of Franklin County, Tennessee, be the same General Sessions or Circuit.
SECTION 2. The clerks of said courts shall collect the said litigation taxes imposed in Section 1 of this act and pay the same into the "Franklin County Jail Capital Projects Fund" to be used for repair, reconstruction, maintenance and improvement of the Franklin County Jail.
| As amended by: | Private Acts of 1992, Chapter 233 |
SECTION 3. All expenditures made from the said fund herein provided for shall be made by the County Executive upon the approval of the County Commission for the purposes herein specified.
SECTION 4. The County Commission is authorized to issue notes and bonds for the advanced purposes herein specified and to pledge the income to accrue from the tax herein levied toward the payment of the bonds or notes.
SECTION 5. Chapter 14 of the Private Acts of 1967 is amended by deleting Sections 1 through 4 in their entireties.
SECTION 6. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the County Commission of Franklin County at or before the next regular meeting of such commission occurring more than thirty (30) days following the date upon which it is approved by the Governor or otherwise takes effect without his signature. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of such commission and certified by him to the Secretary State.
SECTION 7. 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 6 of this Act.
Passed: March 3, 1983.