Lyons v. City of Portland

It cannot be gainsaid that, where the state has assumed exclusive right to license a particular business, the power of a city to legislate on the same subject is taken away. But we think the weight of authority is in favor of the proposition that, where a city has been granted by general law or by legislative charter the authority to license a particular business, that authority is not taken away by the fact that the state has also seen fit to impose a license for carrying on the same business. And it seems to us that where there is no conflict between the provisions of the state law and city…