Public Chapter 427

HOUSE BILL NO. 65

By Representative Odom

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 446

By Senator Haynes

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29, relative to remedies and special proceedings.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 29-16-125(b)(2), is amended by

deleting the language "twenty-five dollars ($25.00)" and by substituting instead the language "one hundred dollars ($100.00)".

SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 29-16-125(b)(2), is further amended by adding the following sentence:

Provided, however, by majority vote of the County Legislative Body occurring prior to January 1, 1998, such amount may be alternatively set at a level not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.