§ 2. Census Governing Maximum Numbers.

(a)

As to all applications which may be filed for licenses for the sale of intoxicating beverages within the said city and unincorporated territory in said county by vendors operating places of business where beverages containing alcohol of more than fourteen per centum by weight are sold, the 1950 federal decennial census shall be considered as the last preceding federal census, and each federal census completed after the completion of the 1950 federal decennial census shall be considered as the last preceding federal census as to such licenses applied for after the completion of each such subsequent federal census.

(b)

Any federal census referred to in this Act shall be considered as having been completed upon the release, under the supervision or by direction of the director of census of the United States, of the result of the census of the population of the said city and unincorporated territory in said county showing the numerical population thereof.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 31098(1955), § 2)