State v. Albro

This is a criminal complaint charging the defendant with failing to obtain a permit to locate a certain single trailer for use as living quarters in violation of an ordinance adopted by the town council of the town of West Greenwich on the purported authority of P. L. 1960, chap. 11.

In the district court of the fourth judicial district, out of which the warrant issued, defendant filed a motion to quash the complaint on the grounds, inter alia, that the enabling act constitutes an invalid delegation of the legislative power vested in the general assembly and that the ordinance adopted pursuant…