Satrom v. City of Grand Forks

(concurring specially)-

Municipal corporations possess only those powers expressly granted, those necessarily implied in, or incident to, powers expressly granted, and those indispensable to declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Hoffman v. City of Minot, N. D., 77 N.W.2d 815, 58 A.L.R.2d 1338, and cases cited therein.

Section 130 of the North Dakota Constitution directs the legislative assembly to provide by the general law for the organization of municipal corporations. These municipal corporations when created pursuant to statute become agencies of the state and have only the…