State v. Vaughan

On Rehearing.

The difference between the power to pass a law and the power to adopt rules and regulations to carry into effect a law already passed by the legislature is obvious. We regard, as the legislature itself has regarded, the prohibition of the sale of fish, foreign or domestic, a subject of law and not a subject of a regulation to carry some previously enacted law into effect. There is no absolute, universal formula for determining in all cases the powers which must be exercised by the legislative body itself and those which may be delegated by the legislature to some administrative…