City of Fort Lauderdale v. Broward County

ANSTEAD, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of appellants’ petition seeking to prevent Bro-ward County from amending its charter to *784assume exclusive authority over certain aspects of handgun management within the entire county without conducting a citywide as well as county-wide referendum.1 We reverse.

Broward County proposed to submit to county voters a referendum issue authorizing an amendment to the county charter for handgun management.2 The proposal would authorize a county-wide ordinance binding on the county’s municipalities and providing for certain minimum standards for…