Legal Opinion
Western Pennsylvania Restaurant Ass'n v. Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 2, 1951No. Appeal, 124PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Horace Stern,
The question is whether the City of Pittsburgh may validly enact an ordinance to safeguard the public health by regulating the operation of restaurants within the city. Ordinarily the answer to such a question would clearly be in the affirmative because the city’s Charter Act (Act of March 7, 1901, P.L. 20, Article XIX, section XXXIII) vests in it the power “To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants . . . .”, — a power which, indeed, it would probably possess even in the absence of such a specific grant: Wartman v. The City of…
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3Cited by92 opinions
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