Garig v. N.L. Industries, Inc.

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• finding that where the fee was intended as a revenue raising measure, similar to a tax, a federal court action challenging that fee could not be maintained
• 5% of gross earnings for central alarm station companies to use underground wires to transmit their signals
• charge of 5% of gross revenues assessed against fire and burglar alarm companies was a “tax” because it was placed in “general revenue” fund
• an ordinance was held to be a revenue-raising measure because the monies collected were added to the public fisc, rather than applied exclusively to the activity regulated by the ordinance

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