St. Louis Association of Realtors v. City of Ferguson

OPINION

James M. Dowd, Judge

This dispute makes its third appearance in this Court. The St. Louis Association of Realtors (Realtors) filed a petition for declaratory judgment challenging an ordinance enacted by the City of Ferguson that purported to regulate the business of renting residential property. The trial court found that Ferguson lacked the authority to enact the ordinance because the business of renting residential property was not mentioned in section 94.110, 1 the Missouri statute that empowers third class cities to impose and collect license taxes on certain businesses. We find…