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· 9/6/1978

City of Atlanta v. Spence

Citations

  • 249 S.E.2d 554
  • 242 Ga. 194
  • 1978 Ga. LEXIS 1137

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a statute limiting the tax exemption of real property owned by a local government outside its territorial jurisdiction to 300 acres was not an arbitrary classification
  • holding that a county ordinance exempting 300 acres or less from taxation of public real property owned by a city outside its territorial limits did not violate uniformity
  • neither a county nor a municipal corporation has standing to challenge a state statute on state or federal equal protection or due process grounds
  • a county or municipal corporation, created by the Legislature, does not have standing to invoke the equal protection and due process clauses of state and federal Constitutions in opposition to will of its creator

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Judges: Jordan, Hall

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