In Re Opinion of the Justices

Opinion of Justices BROWN, FOSTER, and LIVINGSTON

The Governor’s inquiry calls for an interpretation and application of the last paragraph of § 16, Tit. 51 of the Code of 1940, which said section purports to provide for a “property tax relief fund.”

Said section of the Code contemplates that the Governor shall act promptly on the 30th of September of each year, when the comptroller draws the warrants payable out of said fund in amount sufficient to reimburse the general fund, the state soldiers’ relief fund and the public school fund, reimbursing each of said funds “for revenues lost by the…