Court Opinion

ID: 9824925
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:44:28.471047+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:14.659730
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
The words, “and if said ordinances so provided, they would have been contrary to the general law of the state. See Gen. Acts, 1919, p. 1036; Const. § 89,” are beyond the necessities of the decision. It should be said that, since rendition of the decision, briefs of respective counsel have been examined, and, while there are contained references to Acts 1919 (p. 1030) and section 89 of the Constitution, there is no citation of the General Laws of 1923, p. 580. I-Ience it was natural that this court take citations of statute made by counsel as embracing the statutory provisions on the subject.
The last-named statute provides:
“That any city which has a population of not less than thirty thousand and not more than fifty thousand of inhabitants, according to the latest federal census or which may hereafter have such population according to any federal census hereafter taken, may fix and collect licenses for any business done within the police jurisdiction of such city and without the limits thereof; provided, however, that the amount of such licenses shall not be more than one-half the amount charged and collected as license for like business done within the limita of such city, fees and penalties, excluded.” Gen. Acts 1923, p. 580.
The census referred to shows the city of Montgomery to be within the class. Fed. Census, Dept, of Com. “1920, Montgomery 43464.” No other city had a population of not less than thirty nor more than fifty thousand inhabitants according to said last federal census. No case is now made calling for a construction of the last-cited statute in the application of an ordinance fixing and collecting license tax by the city of Montgomery for the doing of a business within its police jurisdiction and without its corporate limits.
Application overruled.
All the Justices concur.