Private Acts of 1976 Chapter 249

SECTION 1. Any owner or owners of real property in Obion County who builds, erects, constructs or remodels, or who causes or allows to be built, erected, constructed, or remodeled, any building or improvements upon their real property, where such construction or remodeling has a value of or costs one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or more, shall apply for building permits from the Obion County Assessor of Property prior to the commencement of such construction or remodeling.

Such application shall be made in writing on a form or forms to be prescribed by the Assessor of Property and provided for him by the Quarterly County Court. There shall be no charge for the issuance of the permits.

SECTION 2. Failure to obtain such permit within thirty (30) days after the beginning of such construction or improvements is a misdemeanor and punishable upon conviction thereof by a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00).

SECTION 3. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Quarterly County Court of Obion County before September 1, 1976. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the Quarterly County Court and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 4. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, it shall become effective upon being approved as provided in Section 3.

Passed: March 9, 1976.