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Opinion of the Justices

Supreme Court of Delaware
Sep 12, 1967
233 A.2d 59 (Del. 1967)

Summary

holding that the General Assembly's delegation to a municipal corporation of its authority to levy and collect taxes for local purposes falls outside the Delaware constitutional requirement that all bills for raising revenue originate in the General Assembly

Summary of this case from Harvey v. City of Newark

Opinion

September 12, 1967.



Summaries of

Opinion of the Justices

Supreme Court of Delaware
Sep 12, 1967
233 A.2d 59 (Del. 1967)

holding that the General Assembly's delegation to a municipal corporation of its authority to levy and collect taxes for local purposes falls outside the Delaware constitutional requirement that all bills for raising revenue originate in the General Assembly

Summary of this case from Harvey v. City of Newark

noting that "[i]t is generally agreed by both federal and state courts that to qualify as a revenue-raising bill, within the purview of this constitutional provision, the money derived from the tax imposed must be available for the general governmental uses and purposes of the taxing sovereignty, i.e., for defraying its general governmental expenses and obligations," and that "[t]he corollary of the [this] rule is that laws delegating authority to local governmental units to levy and collect taxes for local purposes are not bills for ‘raising revenue’ within the meaning of that term as used in the constitutional requirement"

Summary of this case from Burnett v. Chilton Cnty. Health Care Auth.
Case details for

Opinion of the Justices

Case Details

Full title:OPINION OF THE JUSTICES of the Supreme Court in Response to Question…

Court:Supreme Court of Delaware

Date published: Sep 12, 1967

Citations

233 A.2d 59 (Del. 1967)

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