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Health - Historical Notes

Tennessee Code Annotated
Tennessee Attorney General Opinions

The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.

  1. Private Acts of 1967-68, Chapter 39, created the Jackson-Madison County Ambulance Authority to provide ambulance service to the public. This act was amended by Private Acts of 1973, Chapter 17, to authorize the City of Jackson and Madison County to make an agreement between themselves for the division of operating expenses. This act would have been amended by Private Acts of 1982, Chapter 294, to authorize the county purchasing agent to make purchases for the ambulance authority, but the act was rejected locally and never become law. Private Acts of 1967-68, Chapter 39, as amended, was repealed by Private Acts of 1991, Chapter 59.
  2. Private Acts of 1967-68, Chapter 458, would have amended Private Acts of 1949, Chapter 686, to increase the board of trustees of the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital Authority to 9 members and to change the terms and method of election of trustees, but this act was rejected locally and never became effective.
  3. Private Acts of 1982, Chapter 287, would have amended Private Acts of 1949, Chapter 686, to change the method of election of successor trustees for the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital Authority, but this act was rejected by the county legislative body of Madison County.