Westwood Lake, Inc. v. Dade County

HENDRY, Judge.

The most salient question presented here is whether the “investment” method or theory used in ascertaining utility rates followed by the Metropolitan Dade County Water and Sewer Board and embodied in Ch. 32, Code of Metropolitan Dade County, violates due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Declaration of Rights of the 1885 Florida Constitution. We reject this broad constitutional challenge and hold that the investment method or theory herein challenged is constitutional as a matter of law. U.S. Const., Amend. XIV; Declaration of Rights § 12,…