Opinion No. (2010)

Dear Representative Molendorp:

This opinion is in response to your request regarding whether a city-in this case, the City of Raymore, a charter city-may impose a city-wide trash service upon its citizens, whether a citizen may legally refuse the trash services, and whether the city may bill the trash collection service as part of a water bill.

Generally, cities and other municipal corporations, "`have no inherent powers but are confined to those expressly delegated by the sovereign and to those powers necessarily implied in the authority to carry out the delegated powers.'" ChristianCounty v.…