State Ex Rel. Grimes v. Board of Commissioners

The noted author of the law on municipal corporations, Mr. Dillon, in Dillon on Municipal Corporations, vol. II, sec. 675, p. 1020, footnote, states the rule to be: "But when the statute prescribes the qualifications of the persons who may be licensed, the city cannot by ordinance prescribe additional qualifications under its power to restrain, license, etc. Territory v. Robertson, 19 Okla. 149, 92 P. 144."

It will be noted from the language used that the board of city commissioners of the city of Las Vegas attempted by section 7 of its ordinance to reserve unto themselves an arbitrary…