Private Acts of 1965 Chapter 18

SECTION 1. That hereafter Justices of the Peace of counties of not less than 26,947 inhabitants and no more than 26,967 inhabitants, according to the Federal Census of 1960, or any subsequent Federal Census, shall be entitled to and shall receive Sixty Dollars ($60) per year payable in equal quarterly installments of Fifteen Dollars ($15) each for attendance upon regular quarterly sessions of the County Court in such counties.

COMPILER'S NOTE: See T.C.A. § 5-5-107 for general law on compensation.

SECTION 2. That in addition to said compensation for the attendance upon the sessions of the Quarterly County Court in said counties, the Justices of the Peace shall be entitled to and receive mileage at the rate of ten (10) cents a mile for each mile traveled in going to and from their residences to the County Court House to attend each regular, special, or extra session of the County Court. Provided, that no Justice of the Peace who resides within one (1) mile of the court house shall receive any such mileage.

SECTION 3. That all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee that are in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. That this Act shall have no effect unless the same shall have been approved by two-thirds vote of the Quarterly County Court of any county to which it may apply on or before the next regular meeting of such Quarterly County Court occurring more than thirty days after its approval by the Chief Executive of this State. Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the body having jurisdiction to approve or the reverse, and shall be certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 5. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: January 28, 1965.