Tate v. LaBrum

Sloane, P. J.,

— This petition for a declaratory judgment seeks our declaration and judgment of validity or invalidity of a recent Act of Assembly, Act No. 338, 53 PS §16101-16103. In brief, the act approved August 9, 1963, and effective immediately, authorizes the city council of any city of the first class (Philadelphia is the only one in Pennsylvania) to impose taxes for school purposes, to “. . . be levied, assessed and collected in accordance with all provisions, restrictions, limitations, rights of notice and appeal as are applicable to like taxes imposed for city purposes”: section 2 of…