C. L. SAUNDERS, AS TAX COLLECTOR OF CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA, ET AL.,

v.

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

Citator

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• Fla. Dep't OF Revenue v. The City OF Gainesville, 918 So. 2d 250 (Fla. 2005)
  …d other properties held and used by a city to supply electric power to [*259] customers in an adjacent county could not be taxed by that county under article IX, section 1 of the 1885 Constitution. See Saunders v. City of Jacksonville, 157 Fla. 240, 25 So. 2d 648, 649 (1946). The Legislature had exempted from ad valorem taxation property owned by a municipality’s public utility but located in a different county. See id. The Court concluded that furnishing electric current served a municipal purpose. As in Mc…
• Gate City Garage, Inc. v. City of Jacksonville, 66 So. 2d 653 (Fla. 1953)
  …he appellants in the cases of Hamler v. City of Jacksonville, 97 Fla. 807, 122 So. 220; State ex rel. Cummer v. Pace, 121 Fla. 871, 164 So. 723; State v. City of Tallahassee, 142 Fla. 476, 195 So. 402; Saunders v. City of Jacksonville, 157 Fla. 240, 25 So. 2d 648; State v. City of Jacksonville, Fla., 50 So. 2d 532. We find no provision of the State or Federal Constitutions which prohibits a municipal corporation to acquire, own and operate a system such as that involved in this case because it may be in com…
• State of Fla. & the taxpayers v. Inter-American Ctr. Auth., 84 So. 2d 9 (Fla. 1955)
  …Chapter 29830, Acts of 1955, declaring that “the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and is a public purpose”. Saunders v. City of Jacksonville, 157 Fla. 240, 25 So. 2d 648; State v. Monroe County, 148 Fla. 111, 3 So. 2d 754, and State ex rel. Harper v. McDavid, 145 Fla. 605, 200 So. 100, 133 A.L.R. 360, uphold such findings. The doctrine of the foregoing cases is perhaps the best answer to this question. In other wor…