Municipal Control of Public Utilities: A Study of the Attitude of Our Courts Toward an Increase of the Sphere of Municipal ActivityColumbia University Press, 1906 - 109 páginas |
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... electric - light plants , and waterworks and in attend- ing to matters of local interest merely the corporation acts as a business concern . " Over all the public or governmental powers exercised 1 Dillon , Municipal Corporations , sec ...
... electric - light plants , and waterworks and in attend- ing to matters of local interest merely the corporation acts as a business concern . " Over all the public or governmental powers exercised 1 Dillon , Municipal Corporations , sec ...
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... electric - light plant a city is not exercising its govern- mental or legislative powers , but its business powers , and may conduct it in the manner which promises the greatest benefit to the city and its inhabitants in the judgment of ...
... electric - light plant a city is not exercising its govern- mental or legislative powers , but its business powers , and may conduct it in the manner which promises the greatest benefit to the city and its inhabitants in the judgment of ...
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... electric light , water and gas for the private use of its citizens as well as for the city are universally upheld by all our courts as constitu- tional.1 In the case of Linn vs. Borough of Chambersburg , 2 the court says : " The power ...
... electric light , water and gas for the private use of its citizens as well as for the city are universally upheld by all our courts as constitu- tional.1 In the case of Linn vs. Borough of Chambersburg , 2 the court says : " The power ...
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... electric - light plants , is not limited to providing the service of such utilities for use only upon the streets and in other public places of the city , but that it may in connection therewith furnish the same for the private use of ...
... electric - light plants , is not limited to providing the service of such utilities for use only upon the streets and in other public places of the city , but that it may in connection therewith furnish the same for the private use of ...
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... electric - light plant , and furnishing light for the streets and public places of said city and for the private use of its inhabitants . The only statutory authority given the city provided that it might " establish and maintain gas ...
... electric - light plant , and furnishing light for the streets and public places of said city and for the private use of its inhabitants . The only statutory authority given the city provided that it might " establish and maintain gas ...
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action charged charter cipal corporations citizens Clarksburg conferred constitutional construction contract decided in 1895 decision defendant city discretion duty electric light electric-light plant enjoin erect and maintain ex rel exempt from taxation exercise express expressly favor furnish light Gas Light gas or electricity governmental held implied powers inhabitants interest Knoxville Water Co lease legislative legislature light the streets limits Louisville Water Co Mayor muni municipal activity municipal corporations municipal ownership municipal purpose natural gas neces necessary Ohio St opinion ordinance OSCAR LEWIS ownership and operation permit police power poration power to regulate powers of municipal private corporations privileges public places public purposes public utilities question rates reasonable refusing rule of law Rushville saying sphere of municipal statute statutory authority streets and public supply Supreme Court taxation tion trust ultra vires Vicksburg Waterworks Co Walla Walla
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Página 85 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest he in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Página 99 - But it should also be remembered that the judiciary ought not to interfere with the collection of rates established under legislative sanction, unless they are so plainly and palpably unreasonable as to make their enforcement equivalent to the taking of property for public use without such compensation as, under all the circumstances, is just, both to the owner and to the public...
Página 99 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Página 6 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Página 46 - In deciding whether, in the given case, the object for which the taxes are assessed falls upon the one side or the other of this line, they must be governed mainly by the course and usage of the government, the objects for which taxes have been customarily and by long course of legislation levied...
Página 81 - The authorities are all agreed that a municipal corporation, when exerting its functions for the general good, is not to be shorn of its powers by mere implication. If by contract or otherwise it may, in particular circumstances, restrict the exercise of its public powers, the intention to do so must be manifested by words so clear as not to admit of two different or inconsistent meanings.
Página 78 - That perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State, and ought not to be allowed.
Página 100 - The corporation has the exclusive right to control and regulate the use of the streets of the city. In this respect it is endowed with legislative sovereignty. The exercise of that sovereignty has no limit, so long as it is within the objects and trusts for which the power is conferred. An ordinance regulating a street is a legislative act, entirely beyond the control of the judicial power of • the State.
Página 59 - That all freemen when they form a social compact, are equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges, from the community, but in consideration of public services.
Página 41 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.