DeKalb County v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.

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• holding that an ordinance requiring certain utilities to obtain a license for the use of the county’s rights-of-way by paying a fee calculated in part as a “percentage of non-industrial gross revenue” was a tax
• ex- plaining that, under the Georgia Constitution, “counties can exer- cise only such powers as are conferred on them by law, and a county can exercise no powers except such as are expressly given or necessarily implied from express grant of other powers”

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