Public Acts of 1972 Chapter 664

SECTION 1.  Title 16, Chapter 11, Tennessee Code Annotated is amended by adding to the chapter, the following section:

The Judges of the General Sessions Courts in counties having populations of not less than 47,750 according to the federal Census of 1970, or any subsequent federal census, shall be authorized, upon request, to sit by interchange with any other circuit, criminal or any other court of general jurisdiction in law and equity, provided such General Sessions judges have the qualifications required of the judges for whom they shall sit by interchange.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 30, 1972.

COMPILER'S NOTE: Since this public act applies only to Gibson County, it is not codified in Tennessee Code Annotated and therefore is reprinted in this compilation.