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QUESTION: Can a municipality or any governmental entity prevent nonresidents from the use of its facilities, particularly municipally owned beaches or parks?

SUMMARY: Although duly enacted state and local legislation is presumptively valid, legislation which excludes nonresidents from public parks and beaches is probably invalid because such legislation exceeds the authority of the local legislative body concerned, violates the privileges and immunities clause and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and violates the "public trust doctrine."…