Kenneth M. Crook v. City of Madison, Mississippi

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The City of Madison enacted an ordinance requiring landlords to obtain a license for each unit of rental property. The ordinance, known as the Rental Inspection and Property Licensing Act (RI-PLA) conditions the grant of a license on the landlord’s'advance consent to property inspections. Kenneth Michael Crook was convicted in municipal court of two counts of violating RIPLA by maintaining a rental unit without a rental license and sentenced to pay a fine of $300 on each count. After a bench trial, the County Court of Madison *932County…