Public Acts of 1973 Chapter 180

COMPILER'S NOTE:  Though a Public rather than a Private Act, this is not found in Tennessee Code Annotated.  This Act has special effect, applying to Hamblen County, and is therefore included in this volume.

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary in any county having a population of not less than 38,000 nor more that 38,800 according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, no municipality shall annex territory under the provisions of Chapter 3 Title 6 of Tennessee Code Annotated without the consent or request to such annexation by a majority of the residents of the area to be annexed.  The consent or request to such annexation by residents shall be by referendum as provided in Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 6-311 and 6-312.  No municipality lying within such county shall be authorized to annex by ordinance as provided by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 6-309 until July 1, 1975.

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

Passed:  April 24, 1973