Private Acts of 1993 Chapter 42

SECTION 1. Chapter 232 of the Private Acts of 1963, as amended by Chapters 73 and 132 of the Private Acts of 1973, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. The Superintendent of roads for Anderson County shall be the chief administrative officer of the county highway department. The qualifications, duties and responsibilities of such superintendent shall be such as are provided by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 54-7-103.

SECTION 3. The incumbent chief administrative officer of the county highway department for Anderson County, Tennessee, shall serve as the Superintendent of roads for Anderson County, Tennessee, until the 1994 General Election. Thereafter, the Superintendent of roads shall be elected every four (4) years by the qualified voters of the county at the August General Election and shall serve a term of four (4) years. The superintendent duly elected shall take office upon September 1, following such election.

SECTION 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as having the effect of altering the salary of any incumbent prior to the end of the term for which such public officer was elected.

SECTION 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as having the effect of removing any incumbent from office or abridging the term of any official prior to the end of the term for which such official was elected.

SECTION 6. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the board of county commissioners for Anderson County, Tennessee. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Anderson County Commission and certified to the Secretary of 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.

Passed: March 24, 1993.