City of Raytown v. Danforth

RENDLEN, Judge.

Appeal from the trial court’s judgment declaring that provisions of Missouri’s ambulance licensing law, §§ 190.100 to 190.195, RSMo Supp.1975,1 do not require that plaintiff City secure a license from the Missouri Division of Health prior to operation of an ambulance service. The judgment also enjoined the threatened enforcement of the *847licensing law as to plaintiff.2 The cause was transferred from the Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City district prior to opinion, pursuant to civil rule 83.06.

During 1975 Raytown, a city of the fourth class, negotiated unsuccessfully with…