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NOLLE v. BREVARD COUNTY ET AL

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B
Jan 10, 1931
131 So. 776 (Fla. 1931)

Summary

In Nolle v. Broward County, 100 Fla. 1692, 131 Sou. Rep. 776, it was held that the obligation of district bonds could not be enlarged into a pure county obligation through the process of refunding the district bonds with county refunding bonds issued pursuant to a statute so providing, unless the enlargement of obligation from a district to a county obligation should first be approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election held according to the terms of amended Section 6 of Article IX of the State Constitution.

Summary of this case from State v. County of Citrus

Opinion

Opinion filed January 10, 1931.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Brevard County; W. W. Wright, Judge.

Reversed.

L. B. Newman, for Appellant;

Smith, Crofton Wilson, for Appellee.


The circuit judge sustained a demurrer to a bill of complaint seeking an injunction against the issue by the county of county bonds in lieu of road and bridge district bonds now outstanding in the county, under Chapter 13937, Acts of 1929, a contention of the complainant below being that Section 6, Article IX, Constitution, as amended in 1930, forbids the issue of such bonds without the required approving vote of the electorate. The complainant, a citizen, resident and tax payer in the county, appealed.

Chapter 13937, Acts of 1929, does not make the outstanding road and bridge district bonds in Brevard County bonds of the county, but merely authorizes county bonds to be issued in lieu of such district bonds, the highways for which the district bonds were issued being a county purpose for which county bonds may be issued under legislative authority. State v. Brevard County, 99 Fla. 226, 126 So. R. 353.

Chapter 11855, Acts of 1927, authorizes a county to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds * * * for the payment of which the credit of said county is pledged; and amended Section 6, Article IX, Constitution, permits a county to issue refunding bonds without an approving vote of the electorate as therein required for the original issue of bonds; but such refunding bonds must be exclusively for the purpose of refunding bonds of the county, and bonds of a taxing district are not made bonds of a county by a statute which merely authorizes county bonds to be issued in lieu of district bonds and does not make the district bonds the bonds of the county. In such case the bonds to be issued by the county are as to the county, original and not refunding bonds, and under amended Section 6, Article IX, Constitution, the county has power to issue such bonds only after the same shall have been approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election in which a majority of the freeholders who are qualified electors residing in such county shall participate.

As the bonds in this case are not to be issued to refund bonds of the county, they cannot under amended Section 6, Article IX, Constitution, be issued without the required approving vote at an election duly held for that purpose.

Reversed.

STRUM and BUFORD, J. J. concur.

TERRELL, C. J., and ELLIS and BROWN, J. J., concur in the opinion and judgment.


Summaries of

NOLLE v. BREVARD COUNTY ET AL

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B
Jan 10, 1931
131 So. 776 (Fla. 1931)

In Nolle v. Broward County, 100 Fla. 1692, 131 Sou. Rep. 776, it was held that the obligation of district bonds could not be enlarged into a pure county obligation through the process of refunding the district bonds with county refunding bonds issued pursuant to a statute so providing, unless the enlargement of obligation from a district to a county obligation should first be approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election held according to the terms of amended Section 6 of Article IX of the State Constitution.

Summary of this case from State v. County of Citrus
Case details for

NOLLE v. BREVARD COUNTY ET AL

Case Details

Full title:A. N. NOLLE, Appellant, v. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, and GEORGE G…

Court:Supreme Court of Florida, Division B

Date published: Jan 10, 1931

Citations

131 So. 776 (Fla. 1931)
131 So. 776

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