Stetzer v. Chippewa County’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
June 1985
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mehlos v. City of Milwaukee · State ex rel. Rose v. Superior Court of Milwaukee County · Lund v. Chippewa County · Power v. Nordstrom · Supervisors of La Pointe v. O'Malley
Most-quoted passages
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“"We are inclined to hold that when any subject of legislation is entrusted to said county boards, by general words, such boards acquire the right to pass any ordinance necessary or convenient for the purpose of disposing of the whole subject so committed to them; and that, for the purpose of disposing of such subject they have all the powers which the legislature itself would have over the same subject, unless the legislature, in conferring such power, has restricted the power of the boards, or directed that it should be done in a certain way." Lund v. Chippewa County , 93 Wis. 640 , 646 , 67 N W. 297 ; State ex rel. Rose v. Superior Court of Milwaukee County 105 Wis. 651 , 673 , 81 N.W. 1046 . The right to regulate public dances and dance halls necessarily implies the right to enforce closing hours. In the Pumplin Case, supra , the court held that the county board, under its delegated authority, had the right to prohibit "public amusements operated in disregard or violation of the regulatory provisions of such ordinances."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court, in the Mehlos Case, supra , sustained the delegation of power to cities to regulate dancing. Further, sec. 22, art. IV, Const., provides: "The legislature may confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the state such powers of a local, legislative and administrative character as they shall from time to time prescribe."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“On the right of regulation in general, as a proper subject for exercise of police power, see annotation 48 A.L.R. 144 , 60 A.L.R. 173 . In construing sec. 22, art. IV, Const, the court in Supervisors of La Pointe v. O'Malley , 47 Wis. 332 , 336 , 2 N.W. 632 , 635 . said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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