STATE EX REL. HOUSING AUTH. OF PLANT CITY v. KIRK

No. 38907.

231 So.2d 522 (1970)

STATE of Florida ex rel. the HOUSING AUTHORITY OF PLANT CITY, Florida, a Public Body Corporate and Politic, Relator, v. Claude R. KIRK, Jr., Governor, Tom Adams, Secretary of State, Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., Comptroller, Broward Williams, Treasurer, Earl Faircloth, Attorney General, Doyle Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture, Floyd T. Christian, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, As and Constituting the Department of Revenue of the State of Florida, and Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., As Comptroller of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul S. Buchman, Plant City, Fowler, White, Collins, Gillen, Humkey & Trenam and Marvin E. Barkin of Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf & Barkin, Tampa, for relator.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Winifred L. Wentworth, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John D. Moriarty, Gen. Counsel for Dept. of Revenue, Tallahassee, for respondents.


DREW, Justice.

In Green v. Panama City Housing Authority1 the District Court of Appeal, Third District, held that the excise tax on rentals, imposed by the Florida Revenue Act of 1949,2 was inapplicable to Housing Authorities created and operating pursuant to the provisions of the Public Housing Authority Act.3 On certiorari to this Court, conflicts in two former cases regarding...

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