Summerland v. Bicknell

Citations

• 111 Cal. 567
• 44 P. 232
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 624

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law—Compensation op Officers—Classification of Counties—Local and Special Legislation.—The constitution authorizes the classification of counties for the purpose of fixing the compensation of officers in each class, and it is the province of the legislature to determine how many and what classes may be necessary for that purpose; and a law fixing such compensation in all the counties of a specified class, as authorized by the constitution, is neither a local nor special law, but is a general law, having a uniform operation, though there be hut one county in the class specified.</p> <p>Id.—County Government Act—Compensation of Assessor—Percentages—Counties of Second Class—Constitutionality of Proviso. The proviso to section 216 of the County Government Act, which exempts counties of the second class, comprising only Los Angeles county, from the general provisions of that section allowing assessors to receive and retain for their own use, as compensation, certain percentages for the collection of personal and poll taxes, and for the enrollment of names subject to military duty, and which requires the assessor in counties of the second class to pay all such percentages into the county treasury, is constitutional and valid.</p>