Armstrong v. Board of Commissioners

Our Constitution, Art. II, sec. 29, prohibits the enactment of any local, private, or special statute concerning various specified subjects, including, among others, laws appertaining to “health, sanitation, or the abatement of nuisances,” and declares that any local, private, or special act or resolution in violation of this provision shall be void. The statute under which the election was held in this ease, Public-Local Laws of Extra Session of 1920, Ch. 112, is, in our opinion, both local and special, coming directly within the constitutional inhibition, and in construing an act and…