Owens v. SMITH

StukES, Justice.

There are two appeals and this decision will govern both. They embrace attacks upon the constitutionality of Acts Nos. 811 and 812 of 1948, 45 Stat. 1996, 2004, which undertook to authorize the commissioners of certain named “public Service District” of Charleston County to promulgate and enforce zoning regulations. The lower court held the acts invalid because of conflict with section 34 of Art. Ill, subsection 9, of the State Constitution of 1895, which prohibits the enactment by the legislature of a special law in cases where a general law can be made applicable. The…