Brown v. County of Horry

How courts have described this case

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• holding that road maintenance fee imposed on all motor vehicles registered in county was a service charge, not a tax
• a legislatively created classification will not be set aside as violative of equal protection unless it is plainly arbitrary and there is no reasonable hypothesis to support the classification
• a legislatively created classification will not be set aside as violative of equal protection unless it is plainly arbitrary and there is no reasonable hypothesis to support the classification
• generally, a tax is an enforced contribution to provide for the support of government, whereas a fee is a charge for a particular benefit to the payer
• generally, a tax is an enforced contribution to provide for the support of government, whereas a fee is a charge for a particular benefit to the payer
• “It is a settled rule of statutory construction that it is the duty of the court to ascertain the intent of the Legislature and to give it effect so far as possible within constitutional limitations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).