City of Youngstown v. Brown

A single legal question is presented for determination, viz., whether the limitations of Section 3628, General Code, apply and control municipal legislation relating to “local police, sanitary and other similar regulations.” Section 3628, General Code, provides that all municipal corporations shall have general power “to make the violation of ordinances a misdemeanor, and to provide for the punishment thereof by fine or imprisonment, or both, but such fine shall not exceed five hundred dollars and such imprisonment shall not exceed six months.”

The ordinances of the cities of Youngstown and…