Robinson v. Richland County Council

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that required payment imposed to fund installation and maintenance of sewer facility was assessment, and not tax, regardless of whether general public obtained health benefit from elimination of sewage problem
• stating Article VIII, Section 14 “precludes the legislature from delegating to counties the responsibility for enacting legislation relating to the subject encompassed by that section”
• stating Article VIII, Section 14 \precludes the legislature from delegating to counties the responsibility for enacting legislation relating to the subject encompassed by that section\
• rejecting equal protection challenge to ordinance that allowed county to impose charges on residents served by new sewer lines, but not neighbors whose lines had been built with federal grant money
• “[Article VIII, § 14] precludes the legislature from delegating to counties the responsibility for enacting legislation relating to the subjects encompassed by that section.”
• increase in property values in adjoining area because of new sewer lines not sufficient to bring adjacent landowner within class who “benefit” from project

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).