GAMMA PHI CHAPTER OF S. C. B. F. CORP. v. DADE COUNTY

No. 36158.

199 So.2d 717 (1967)

GAMMA PHI CHAPTER OF SIGMA CHI BUILDING FUND CORPORATION, a Non-Profit Corporation Existing under the Laws of the State of Florida, Appellant, v. DADE COUNTY, a Subdivision of the State of Florida et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 31, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Peck, II, and B.E. Hendricks, Miami, for appellant.

Thomas C. Britton, County Atty., and Stuart Simon, Asst. County Atty., for appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

Consideration of this controversy brings immediately into juxtaposition Article XVI, Section 16, and Article IX, Section 1 of the Constitution, F.S.A. There is then discernible at least two differentiating characteristics. Section 16 of Article XVI relates only to corporations and provides that all their property, except that of a corporation that shall construct a cross-state canal, shall be subject to taxation unless "held and used exclusively...

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