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Florida Attorney General Reports

Decided April 3, 1975Published

1Opinion of the Court

QUESTION: May the board of county commissioners of a noncharter county validly adopt a rent control ordinance applying to mobile home parks?

SUMMARY: Until legislatively or judicially clarified to the contrary, it is the safer course to assume that the board of county commissioners of noncharter counties are not authorized by the provisions of general law to adopt rent control ordinances. Article VIII, s. 1(f), State Const., provides in part that "[c]ounties not operating under county charters shall have such power of self-government as is provided by general or special law. . . ." As…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. City of Miami Beach v. Forte Towers, Inc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1974
  2. City of Miami Beach v. Fleetwood Hotel, Inc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1972
  3. State v. Orange CountySupreme Court of Florida · 1973
  4. State Ex Rel. Volusia County v. DickinsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1972
  5. Davis v. GronemeyerSupreme Court of Florida · 1971

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