Private Acts of 1969 Chapter 6

SECTION 1. That Obion County, Tennessee, acting by and through its County Board of Health, as established under Section 53-301, Tennessee Code Annotated, is hereby authorized and empowered to regulate garbage business and the collection and disposal of raw garbage and refuse within the unincorporated territory of said county. The Obion County Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate such regulations as may become necessary to carry out the intent and provisions of this Act, and such regulations, when published in a newspaper of general circulation in Obion County and filed with the County Court Clerk shall have the force and effect of law.

SECTION 2. That Obion County, Tennessee, through its County Board of Health, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant franchises of a fixed duration and covering a prescribed territory within the unincorporated territory of said County to individuals, firms or corporations, authorizing them to engage in the garbage business and the collection and disposal of raw garbage and refuse, and to enter into contracts with individuals, firms, or corporations for the collection and disposal of raw garbage and refuse. The County Board of Health may, by regulation, provide for the type of vehicles to be used in the transportation of garbage on the public roads and highways of the County, type of dumps and landfills to be used in the disposal of such garbage and refuse, and prescribe the health and safety standards to be met in conducting said business.

SECTION 3. That the County Board of Health may, be regulation, fix the penalty for violation of this Act and for violation of any of its regulations, and any persons, firms or corporations, guilty of such violation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined up to $50.00 and costs.

SECTION 4. That no person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted to engage in the garbage business or in the collection and disposal of raw garbage within the unincorporated territory of Obion County unless such person, firm or corporation shall have obtained a franchise through the County Board of Health under the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 5. That the County Board of Health may, by regulation, fix such fees and costs as may be necessary to defray the expenses of administering this Act.

SECTION 6. That the provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be severable and if any section, provision, sentence, clause, phrase, or part of this Act be held unconstitutional or void, the remainder of this Act shall continue in full force and effect, it being the legislative intent, now hereby declared, that this Act would be adopted even if such unconstitutional or void matter had not been included in the same.

SECTION 7. That this Act shall have no effect unless the same be approved by twothirds vote of the legislative body of Obion County, Tennessee, to which this Act applies within sixty (60) days of its passage. The presiding officer of such body shall proclaim its approval or disapproval and certify the same to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 8. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: March 4, 1969.