Litigation
Oct. 6, 2012
Constitutionality of 'fire fee' challenged
A California taxpayers association filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a new $150 annual fire fee imposed on rural homeowners.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A taxpayers association and 11 other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a new $150 annual fee imposed on some 825,000 homeowners in rural areas of the state to subsidize fire prevention efforts.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, an advocacy group, along with a fire department and some individual homeowners filed the putative class action in Sacramento Count...
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