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Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Validity Of Ordinance Fixing Closing Hours, Fred C. Newman
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Validity Of Ordinance Fixing Closing Hours, Fred C. Newman
Michigan Law Review
P, a general grocery store, brought an action to have a certain ordinance declared unconstitutional and to enjoin the enforcement of the ordinance. The ordinance provided that stores which sold or distributed "any uncured or uncooked meats or other foods of any kind intended for human consumption" should be open for business only between the hours of duty established for the municipal meat and food inspection department. Bona fide hotels, boarding houses, lodging houses, restaurants, drug stores, confectionery stores, dispensers of beverages, distributors of milk and cream, ice cream and soda fountains were expressly excepted from the operation of …
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Validity Of Ordinance Fixing Closing Hours, Michigan Law Review
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Validity Of Ordinance Fixing Closing Hours, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A municipal ordinance required that all local business concerns selling or distributing food stay open for business only during the hours of duty of the municipal meat and food inspector. Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, confectioneries, drug stores, soda fountains, and milk and cream dispensers were expressly excepted from these requirements. Plaintiff, a general grocery store, sought an injunction against the enforcement of these provisions, alleging that they were unreasonable and that the exceptions were discriminatory. Held, that under its police power to protect the public health, the municipality was authorized to pass such an ordinance as an aid to …