METRO. DADE CO. v. BROS. OF GOOD SHEPHERD

No. 97-3570.

714 So.2d 573 (1998)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, etc., et al., Appellants, v. BROTHERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, INC., etc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Attorney and Scott Fabricius, Assistant County Attorney, for appellants.

J. Patrick Fitzgerald, and Roberto J. Diaz, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The trial court held that a parcel in the City of Miami used for charitable purposes— the Camillus House for homeless persons— by the Brothers of the Good Shepherd, Inc., as the assignee of a ninety-nine year lease which commenced in 1945, was entitled to a charitable exemption from ad valorem taxation under sections 196.012(1), 196.196, 196.192(1), Florida Statutes (1995). The latter provides that:

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