STATE v. SARASOTA COUNTY

No. 54382.

372 So.2d 1115 (1979)

STATE of Florida and the Taxpayers, Property Owners, and Citizens of Sarasota County, Including Nonresidents Owning Property or Subject to Taxation Therein, et al., Appellants, v. SARASOTA COUNTY, Florida, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 28, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Gardner, State's Atty., and Emanuel LoGalbo, Jr., Asst. State's Atty., Sarasota, and Robert A. Dickinson, Englewood, for appellants.

Richard E. Nelson of Nelson Hesse Cyril Weber & Smith, Sarasota, for appellee.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a final judgment validating revenue bonds in Sarasota County. We have jurisdiction.1 The primary issue we must decide is whether section 125.01(q), Florida Statutes (1977), which authorizes the creation of special taxing districts, prohibits or restricts a chartered county from using revenue funds generated from franchise fees collected countywide to finance capital improvements within the...

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