Pickett County Public and Private Legislative Acts – Health
Health – Historical Notes
The following summaries are included herein for reference purposes.
- Private Acts of 1915, Chapter 590, authorized persons who had been assistant pharmacists for not less than ten consecutive years to conduct the business of druggists in Pickett County, without the need of taking the examination usually required before the issuance of a pharmacist’s license. This act was amended by Private Acts of 1917, Chapter 517, to make it applicable to persons who had served as a regular clerk under a registered pharmacist rather than to assistant pharmacists.
- Private Acts of 1921, Chapter 881, authorized persons who had been assistant pharmacists for not less than ten consecutive years to conduct the business of druggists in Pickett County. The individual would be required to obtain a license as a registered pharmacist, but an examination would not be required.
Landfill
Private Acts of 1988, Chapter 232
SECTION 1. No solid waste, hazardous or toxic waste landfill shall be constructed in Pickett County, Tennessee and no contract between any person or persons for the purpose of constructing or utilizing the same shall be completed or executed unless the location of the landfill area shall have been approved by the Tennessee Department of Health and Environment and the governing body of Pickett County. Should the Department of Health and Environment or the governing body of Pickett County disapprove of the site no further action shall be taken in regard to the construction of a landfill in Pickett County.
SECTION 2. Nothing in this act shall affect the regulations set forth by the Department of Health and Environment of the State of Tennessee.
SECTION 3. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the county legislative body of Pickett County by September 1, 1988. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the county legislative body 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: April 29, 1988.
Source: https://privateacts.ctas.tennessee.edu/content/private-acts-1988-chapter-232 and https://privateacts.ctas.tennessee.edu/content/health-historical-notes-32