Ex parte Perry

Citations

• 71 Fla. 250
• 71 So. 174
• 1916 Fla. LEXIS 502

Syllabus

<p>1. Two acts in pari materia passed at the same session of the legislature should be read together and so construed if possible, as to permit a field of operation for both.</p> <p>2. When there is a necessary conflict between a general act and a local act passed at the same session, the local act passed subsequently will prevail.</p> <p>3. A local act prohibiting fishing in the waters of a county applies to some portion of a river within that county, when the middle of that river is made the boundary line and a portion of that river on both sides the boundary line is expressly excepted from the operation of the act.</p> <p>4. When the meaning of an act is plain, a construction contrary to that meaning will not be placed upon it because an officer of the Executive Department grants a general license that may operate outside the purview of that act.</p>