State v. City of Miami Beach

DEKLE, Justice.

Before us for validation are City of Miami Beach bond issues of $2.5 million for sanitation disposal facilities and another $2.5 million for public parks and extension of a community center there. Instead of submitting these proposed issues for vote of only the qualified freeholders in accordance with then effective provisions of the Florida Constitution,1 statutes,2 and City Ordinances,3 the City, with advice of its able counsel, submitted the bond issues for separate votes, one by the freeholders and a second by ALL qualified electors, in anticipation of a ruling on this…