CONSOLIDATED CITY OF JACKSONVILLE v. DUSENBERRY

No. JJ-28.

362 So.2d 132 (1978)

CONSOLIDATED CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, Appellant, v. Miriam M. DUSENBERRY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

August 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dawson A. McQuaig, Gen. Counsel, William Lee Allen and Eve D. Peck, Asst. Counsel, Jacksonville, for appellant.

John J. Sulik and David M. Wiesenfeld of Dawson, Galant, Maddox, Sulik & Nichols, Jacksonville, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

At issue here is the validity of Section 804.311 of the Jacksonville City Ordinance Code requiring a $1,000.00 occupational license fee for fortune tellers, clairvoyants, astrologists, etc. The trial court found that the ordinance, asserted by the city to be solely a revenue raising device, was "... unreasonable and thus illegal and void ...". We agree that the ordinance is not valid as a revenue raising device...

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