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Private Acts of 2006 Chapter 116

SECTION 1. Chapter 99 of the Private Acts of 1953, as amended by Chapter 206 of the Private Acts of 1955; Chapter 21 of the Private Acts of 1965; Chapter 29 of the Private Acts of 1967; Chapter 154 of the Private Acts of 1992; Chapter 113 of the Private Acts of 1994, and Chapter 174 of the Private Acts of 1996, together with any other acts which amend any thereof, relative to the City of Clarksville and Montgomery County Memorial General Hospital District, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Upon the issuance of public notice by the Memorial General Hospital District of the dissolution of said Hospital District, all of the assets and other property then held by said Hospital District shall be contributed and transferred to the Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation, Inc., a Tennessee nonprofit corporations.

SECTION 3. The Memorial General Hospital District (in its own right and as the successor to the charitable interests of the following referenced entities: “Memorial Hospital”, “Memorial General Hospital”, “Clarksville Memorial Hospital”, and “Clarksville Hospital, Inc.”) is a beneficiary under the last will and testament of Gussie W. Burney, Finley E. Gracey, Maurice L. Hughes, William Arthur Plummer, Annie S. Plummer and Luther Tippit. From and after the time the said Hospital District gives public notice of the dissolution of said Hospital District, the Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation, Inc., shall become the substitute beneficiary (replacing said Hospital District in all respects) under the last will and testament of Gussie W. Burney, Finley E. Gracey, William Arthur Plummer, Annie S. Plummer and Luther Tippit, and the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library shall become the substitute beneficiary (replacing said Hospital District in all respects) under the last will and testament of Maurice L. Hughes. Each such substitute beneficiary for said Hospital District named in this section shall be subject to such limitations as are imposed on said Hospital District under each such respective last will and testament or trust.

SECTION 4. This act shall have no effect unless and until approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the County Commission of Montgomery County and the City Council of the City of Clarksville. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the County Commission of Montgomery County and the City Council of the City of Clarksville, respectively, and certified to the secretary of state.

SECTION 5. 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 as provided in Section 4.

Passed: May 26, 2006.