State Ex Rel. Landis v. Jones
| Decision Date | 15 October 1935 |
| Citation | 163 So. 590,121 Fla. 216 |
| Parties | STATE ex rel. LANDIS, Atty. Gen., et al. v. JONES et al. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Original quo warranto proceeding by the State, on the relation of Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, and another against Charles Jones and others, wherein respondents filed a demurrer.
Demurrer sustained, and alternative writ theretofore granted quashed.
COUNSEL W. D. Bell, of Arcadia, for relators.
Thomas W. Butler and W. W. Sinclair, both of Punta Gorda, for respondents.
This is a quo warranto proceeding to test the authority of local municipal officers who claim and are exercising authority as such officers under an act passed at the last session of the Legislature amending certain sections of the charter of the town Punta Gorda, upon the ground that the 1934 amendment of section 24 of article 3 of the Constitution absolutely prohibits the adoption of any special or local laws incorporating cities or towns, or providing for their government, jurisdiction, powers, etc., and that this prohibitory clause is self-executing, thus rendering the act in question void. It is argued that unless this provision of the amendment be held to be self-executing and presently effective, the Legislature may indefinitely delay compliance with the command of the first part of the amendment, which says that 'The Legislature shall establish an uniform system of county and municipal government,' etc., and that it was the intention of the amendment to speed up legislative action in accordance with its positive commands by preventing all special legislation on this subject from and after the effective date of the amendment.
There are also good reasons for holding that the amendment as a whole requires legislation to make it operative, and that it is not, therefore, self-executing. Some of these reasons have already been set forth in the opinion of this court in the case of State ex rel. Mathews v. Alsop, 163 So. 80, decided at the present term, which is controlling here. In spite of the very earnest and able argument of counsel for relator, we are by no means convinced that the decision already arrived at was erroneous.
On the authority of the cited case, the demurrer to the information is sustained, and the alternative writ heretofore granted will be, and the same is hereby, quashed.
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