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SEXTON v. CITY OF JONESBORO

No. S96A1391.

481 S.E.2d 818 (1997)

267 Ga. 571

SEXTON et al. v. CITY OF JONESBORO.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Sexton, Lee Sexton & Associates, P.C., Jonesboro, pro se.

Steven Martin Fincher, Laurel Elaine Henderson, Theodore Paul Meeker, III, Glaze, Glaze & Fincher, Jonesboro, for City of Jonesboro.

HINES, Justice.

The issue is whether the City of Jonesboro's occupational tax ordinance1 operates as an unconstitutional precondition on the practice of law, and therefore, impermissibly regulates the practice of law. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that it does.

The City of Jonesboro enacted an ordinance to provide for a new system of occupational tax regulations.2 The ordinance, as amended...

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