Legal Opinion
Certain Lots Upon Which Taxes Are Delinquent v. Town of Monticello
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided February 21, 1947Published
1Opinion
The pertinent facts involved in this case are stated in the original opinion filed herein on February 21st 1947.
Chapter 9026 Special Acts of the Legislature of 1921 is the Municipal Chapter of the Town of Monticello.
Section 18 of that Act confers the power of taxation on the municipality in the following language:
"That the Town Council shall have the power by ordinance to levy and collect taxes upon all property, real, personal and mixed, within the corporate limits of the Town for municipal purposes;" (Emphasis supplied).
Thus it is seen that in the very beginning the power to tax was…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. State Board of Tax CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- City of Brenham v. Brenham Water Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1887
- Lainhart v. CattsSupreme Court of Florida · 1917
- Kansas City v. J. I. Case Threshing MacHine Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1935
- Zoercher v. AglerIndiana Supreme Court · 1930
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