Rushton v. State ex rel. Collins

Citations

• 75 Fla. 422
• 78 So. 345

Syllabus

<p>1 A wide latitude must of necessity be .accorded the legislature in its enactments of law; and it must be a plain case of violating the requirements of the organic law as to titles ol acts before the courts will nullify statutes or portions thereof as not being within the purpose and scope of the subject as expressed in the title and of “matter properly connected therewith.”.</p> <p>2. The provision for. the payment of the. organized militia for services rendered, contained in section 4, Chapter 6946 Acts of 1915, is properly connected with the subject of “organized militia of the State” expressed in' the title of the act, and consequently such provision does not violate Section 16, Article III of the Constitution.</p> <p>3. The title of Chapter 6946 Acts of 1915 is not misleading, and it need not be an index to the contents of the act.</p> <p>4. Only the subject and not “matter properly connected therewith” that is embraced in the act, shall be expressed in the title; and the title may be as brief or as lengthy as the legislature may desire, when it, does not express more than <me subject and is not misleading.</p> <p>5. The service rendered by the Organized troops of the State in aid of the civil authorities of a county in enforcing law and order in the county at the request of the county authorities is. for a county purpose, and payment therefor by the county does not violate the organic provision for “a uniform and equal rate, of taxation,” or the Article of the Constitution relating to “militia.”</p>