Bloomfield v. Thompson

Citations

• 11 Teiss. 319
• 1914 La. App. LEXIS 91

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. An ordinance by a municipal corporation violative of the provisions of a legislative act, is void.</p> <p>2. Where all the provisions of an ordinance are interdependent, the invalidity of any one part carries with it the invalidity of the whole. ; • ,55</p> <p>3. Where the provisions of a .contract between a municipal corporation and its stockholders, are embedded in a legislative act and that legislative act itself is embedded in the State Constitution, the one and the other (constitutional provision and legislative act,) must first be undone before the validity of such provisions can be questioned by the municipality as having been ultra vires.</p> <p>4. Where a Statute requires that the members of a municipal board shall be appointed by the Mayor, with the consent of the Council, a municipal ordinance creating an ex officio member of such .board is null and- void.</p>