Richmond County v. Richmond County Business Ass'n

Felton, Justice.

1. The attempt of the ordinance to make the failure to pay the so-called “license fee” punishable “as for a misdemeanor,” is void and in violation of the Home Rule Amendment of the Constitution (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 752, 756; ratified Nov. 8, 1966; 'Code Ann. § 2-8402 (c 3)), which provides that the power granted to counties in subparagraphs (a) and •(b) thereinabove “shall not be construed to extend to . . . Action defining any criminal offense or providing for criminal punishment.”

2. So much of said ordinance which seeks to place a penalty upon “professional people” for a late…