Grimm v. Moloney

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The suit tests the constitutional validity of Chapter 178, Acts of 1962, entitled, “An Act relating to powers of cities of all Classes to induce governmental agencies to locate or relocate within their boundaries; and declaring an emergency.” De*497pendent are an implementing ordinance of Covington and a revenue bond issue.

The Act is very comprehensive. In broad outline, it authorizes any city to appropriate public funds to provide as an inducement to a “governmental agency,” which expressly includes the United States to establish or locate within the city or its environs “a…