Legal Opinion
Thompson v. City of Altoona Code Appeals Board
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 2, 2007PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
Senior Judge McCLOSKEY.
Allen Thompson, Patrick Altiero and James Walstrom (Appellants) appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County (trial court), which concluded that a forty-dollar ($40.00) annual licensing fee per residential rental unit imposed by Appellee City of Altoona (the City) constitutes a permissible regulatory fee, not an unconstitutional tax. We now affirm.
In May, 2002, the City enacted Ordinance No. 5501 (the Ordinance), thereby amending the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Altoona (the PMC). The Ordinance, in part, made it unlawful for…
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