stating that the legislature contemplated that a governing body of a city has administrative as well as legislative functions, and they intended to limit referendum proceedings to legislative acts
How later courts described this case
- stating that the legislature contemplated that a governing body of a city has administrative as well as legislative functions, and they intended to limit referendum proceedings to legislative acts
- holding that issuing bonds to finance construction of municipal electric plant and system was legislative in nature and subject to referendum
- "'The crucial test for determining what is legislative and what is administrative is whether the ordinance is one making a new law, or one executing a law already in existence." (internal quotation marks omitted)
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by Wennerstrom v. City of Mesa, 169 Ariz. 485 (1991)
Accordingly, Keigley and Lawrence are inapposite.
The opinion
MOFFAT, Chief Justice.
I concur in the result reached in the opinion of Mr. Justice McDONOUGH and in what is said by Mr. Justice LARSON in his opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.