State v. Jackman
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from the decision of the police court of the city of Concord, imposing a fine of five dollars and costs upon the defendant for the violation of an ordinance of the city duly and legally adopted.
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Appeal, from the decision of the police court of the city of Concord, imposing a fine of five dollars and costs upon the defendant for the violation of an ordinance of the city duly and legally adopted. The ordinance was as follows: “ The tenant or occupant, or, if there be no tenant, the owner of any building or lot of land bordering on any street where there is a sidewalk, shall cause all snow to be removed from the sidewalk adjoining his aforesaid premises within six hours after the snow shall have ceased to fall, if in the daytime, or before two of the clock in the afternoon next…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, J.
Among the various purposes enumerated in the act incorporating the city of Concord, and for which power is expressly given the city council to make ordinances, is that “ To compel all persons to keep the snow . . . from the sidewalks in front of the premises owned or occupied by them.” Laws 1849, c. 835, s. 17, p. 819. The ordinance in question, therefore, having been authorized by specific and definite legislative authority, and having also been “ duly and legally adopted,” has the effect of a special law of the legislature within the limits of ■the city and with respect to persons upon whom…
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