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· 12/8/2005

Fla. Dept. of Rev. v. City of Gainesville

Citations

  • 918 So. 2d 250
  • 2005 WL 3310297

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that the “owned and - 19 - used exclusively by” requirement in article VII, section 3(a
  • stating that for private leaseholds of municipal property, the governmental-governmental test governs eligibility for the ad valorem tax exemption in article VII, section 3(a)
  • explaining that the supreme court is not bound by the legislature's definition of a self-executing constitutional provision
  • noting that statutes enacted by the legislature are presumptively constitutional on their face
  • refusing to construe “municipal purposes” for use and spending under article VIII as synonymous with “municipal or public purposes” under article VII’s exemption provisions
  • “[I]n a facial constitutional challenge, we determine only whether there is any set of circumstances under which the challenged enactment might be upheld.”

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