City of Bellingham v. Cissna

Citations

• 44 Wash. 397
• 87 P. 481
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 847

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets • — ■ Automobiles — Regulation of Speed Ordinance — Validity—Statutes—Construction. Chapter 154, Laws 1905, p. 293, providing for a state license of automobiles, and declaring that cities shall have no power- to require any such license or to exclude automobiles from the free use of the streets, does not prevent a city from limiting the speed of automobiles within its limits to six miles per hour, although laws 1905, § 10, provides that such speed shall not, in thickly settled or business portions of the city, exceed twelve miles per hour; in view of § 12 of said chapter, providing that no greater speed shall be attained than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic, etc.</p> <p>Same — Class Legislation. The proviso to § 12 of chapter 154, Laws 1905, to the effect that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to limit the power of cities to regulate automobiles which are offered to the public for hire, cannot be construed as showing an intention to limit the power to the regulating of the speed of automobiles kept for private use, as such construction would make the statute class legislation; but the proviso must be construed to relate to usual regulations of conveyances kept for public hire.</p>