Legal Opinion
Hernando County v. Florida Public Service Commission
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 12, 1996No. 95-2935PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Judge.
Appellants Hernando County, Collier County, Sarasota County, Polk County, and the Board of County Commissioners of Hills-*50borough County, Florida, appeal a final order of the Public Service Commission (PSC), rendered July 21, 1995, determining that the PSC has jurisdiction over existing facilities and land of Southern States Utilities, Inc. (SSU) in Florida. The PSC decided that SSU’s facilities constitute a “functionally related” statewide “system” whose “service” “transverses county boundaries,” and that the PSC therefore had exclusive jurisdiction to regulate all of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Green v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1992
- City of Cape Coral v. GAC Utilities, Inc., of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 1973
- State v. IacovoneSupreme Court of Florida · 1995
- Miele v. Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1995
- Goldstein v. Acme Concrete CorporationSupreme Court of Florida · 1958
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3Cited by2 opinions
- So. States Util. v. FLA. PUB. SERV. COM'NDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998
- Southern States Utilities v. Florida Public Service CommissionDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998