Bettini v. City of Las Cruces

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Legislature did not allow municipalities to withhold utility service to subsequent owners of property thereby abrogating a prior Supreme Court opinion
• stating that “[statutory words are presumed to be used in their ordinary and usual sense”
• “[W]e must presume that the [Legislature, in enacting a statute, intended to change the law as it had theretofore existed.”
• legislature is presumed to know statutory and common law when it enacts a statute
• legislature is presumed to be informed of existing law
• “Where authority is given to do a particular thing and a mode of doing it is prescribed, it is limited to be done in that mode; all other modes are excluded. This is a part of the so-called doctrine of expressio unius est exclusio alterius.”

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