Case Name: CITY NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI and City of Miami, a Florida municipal corporation, Petitioners, v. SAVE BRICKELL AVENUE, INC., Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-03-29
Citations: 428 So. 2d 763
Docket Number: Nos. 82-725, 82-726
Parties: CITY NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI and City of Miami, a Florida municipal corporation, Petitioners, v. SAVE BRICKELL AVENUE, INC., Respondent.
Judges: Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 428
Pages: 763–764

Head Matter:
CITY NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI and City of Miami, a Florida municipal corporation, Petitioners, v. SAVE BRICKELL AVENUE, INC., Respondent.
Nos. 82-725, 82-726.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 29, 1983.
Daniels & Hicks and Sam Daniels, Dubbin, Schiff, Berkman & Dubbin, Jose R. Garcia-Pedrosa, City Atty., and Terry V. Percy and Miriam Maer, Deputy City At-tys., Miami, for petitioners.
Williams, Salomon, Kanner, Damian, Weissler & Brooks and Janet Cooper, Miami, for respondent.
Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Certiorari denied. City of Miami and Santa Maria Development Group v. Save Brickell Avenue, Inc., 426 So.2d 1100 (Fla. 3d DCA) (1983).
. Unexpressed in the cited opinion was the fact that the ordinance we held unconstitutional contained its own definitions to be applied when construing the words therein. These definitions gave a permissive construction to the word "may," a point which we deem controlling. Ervin v. Capital Weekly Post, Inc., 97 So.2d 464 (Fla.1957); Greenleaf & Crosby Co. v. Coleman, 117 Fla. 723, 158 So. 421 (1934). For this same reason, Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Wells, 100 Fla. 1027, 130 So. 587, 593 (1930) ("[Wjhere a statute says a thing 'may' be done by a public official which is for the public benefit, it is to be construed that it must be done.") is inapposite.