Town of San Mateo City v. State Ex Rel. Landis
Decision Date | 06 December 1934 |
Citation | 158 So. 112,117 Fla. 546 |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Parties | TOWN OF SAN MATEO CITY et al. vstv. STATE ex rel. LANDIS, Atty. Gen., et al. |
Rehearing Denied Dec. 29, 1934.
En Banc.
Error to Circuit Court, Putnam County; George Wm. Jackson, Judge.
COUNSEL Julian C. Calhoun, Richard W. Ervin, Jr., and J. H. Millican, Jr., all of Palatka, for plaintiffs in error.
J. J Cavon and Hilburn & Merryday, all of Palatka, for defendants in error.
This writ of error was taken to a judgment of ouster in quo warranto proceedings brought by the Attorney General of the state to effectuate a legislative enactment as follows:
'Became a law without the Governor's approval.' (Sp. Acts 1933, c. 16673.)
A statute which has been duly enacted and is complete in its provisions for legal and practical operation may by the statute itself be made to become operative upon the happening of a lawful contingency such as a stated vote of the electors or property owners of the appropriate governmental entity. Nabb v. Andreu, 89 Fla. 414, 104 So. 591; Olds et al. v. State ex rel. Cole, 101 Fla. 218, 133 So. 641.
Section 18, article 3, of the Constitution, is as follows:
'No law shall take effect until sixty days from the final adjournment of the session of the legislature at which it may have been enacted, unless otherwise specially provided in such law.'
The provisions that the enactment shall take effect upon its ratification by a majority 'of the people owning land in the said town of San Mateo City at the time of adjournment...
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