Executive Aircraft Consulting, Inc. v. City of Newton

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a municipal ordinance \is entitled to a presumption of validity and should not be stricken unless its infringement upon a statute is clear beyond substantial doubt\
• A tax is a forced contribution to raise revenue for the maintenance of government services offered to the general public
• “Home rule empowers a city or county to levy any type of exaction unless the legislature preempts the field by uniform enactment.”
• A tax is a forced contribution to raise revenue for the maintenance of government services offered to the general public.
• fees are paid by choice; the party subject to the fee has the option of not utilizing the governmental service and thus avoiding the fee or charge.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).