RICHMOND COUNTY v. RICHMOND &c. ASSN.

25321.

225 Ga. 568 (1969)

170 S.E.2d 246

RICHMOND COUNTY v. RICHMOND COUNTY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, INC. et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 29, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin H. Pierce, for appellant.

Lanier, Powell, Cooper & Cooper, Wilmer D. Lanier, Harris, Chance & McCracken, Henry T. Chance, for appellees.


FELTON, Justice.

1. The attempt of the ordinance to make the failure to pay the so-called "license fee" punishable "as for a misdemeanor," is void and in violation of the Home Rule Amendment of the Constitution (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 752, 756; ratified Nov. 8, 1966; Code Ann. § 2-8402 (c 3)), which provides that the power granted to counties in subparagraphs (a) and (b) thereinabove "shall not be construed to extend...

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