Isern v. City of West Miami

ROBERTS, Chief Justice.

We here review by conflict certiorari three consolidated cases involving the pow*421er of municipalities to require occupational licenses of outside businesses rendering services upon occasion within their municipal limits. In separate declaratory judgment actions initiated by petitioners, the Circuit Court, Dade County, held that the respondent municipalities could not require that petitioners obtain occupational licenses as a condition precedent to doing business within respondents’ corporate limits. Upon respondents’ appeals, the District Court of Appeal, Third District,…