PINELLAS COUNTY v. FIORE

No. 98-00886.

732 So.2d 1152 (1999)

PINELLAS COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Mary Ellen FIORE, and Suncoast Toys, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Brody, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, Clearwater, for Appellant.

Karen Meyer Buesing and Luisette Gierbolini of Zinober & McCrea, P.A., Tampa, for Appellees.


NORTHCUTT, Acting Chief Judge.

Pinellas County ordinance 97-60 regulates the playing of bingo. Among its provisions is a decree that "no video games, slot machines, or skill machines... shall be allowed on any premises where a bingo game is being conducted." Suncoast Toys, Inc. leases toy crane machines, which are skill machines within the meaning of the ordinance, to bingo halls and other businesses. Suncoast and its owner, Mary Ellen Fiore, filed a declaratory action...

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