“[T]he validity of local action depends * * * on whether it contravenes state or federal law.”
How later courts described this case
- “[T]he validity of local action depends * * * on whether it contravenes state or federal law.”
- statutes may not interfere with “the structure and pro- cedures” of local government unless needed “to safeguard the interests of persons affected by” those procedures
- it is “reasonable to assume that the legislature does not mean to displace local civil or administrative regulation of local conditions by a statewide law unless that intention is apparent”
- “The provisions for financial security for police officers and firemen and their dependants in the event of retirement, disability, or death address a social concern with the living standards of these classes of workers, not with local governments as such.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
HOWELL, J.,
dissenting.
I join in the dissent of my colleague, Justice Tongue, except that I do not subscribe to parts of the rhetoric used in the dissenting opinion.