City of St. Petersburg v. Briley, Wild & Assoc., Inc.

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• holding that courts are obligated to give effect to language contained in a constitutional provision according to its plain meaning, and that if the language is clear, courts have no power to go outside the bounds of the provision in search of a different meaning
• holding that courts are obligated to give effect to language contained in a constitutional provision according to its plain meaning, and that if the language is clear, courts have no power to go outside the bounds of the provision in search of a different meaning
• trial court affirmed where it found that sewerage plant was of real and substantial benefit where health of municipal residents could be impacted
• if constitutional language is clear and not entirely unreasonable or illogical in its operation, court has no power to go outside bounds of constitutional provision in search of excuses to give a different meaning to words used therein
• \[i]f the language is clear and not entirely unreasonable or illogical in its operation we have no power to go outside the bounds of the constitutional provision in search of excuses to give a different meaning to words used therein\

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