City of Mesa v. Killingsworth

How courts have described this case

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• indicating we need not defer to a board of adjustment’s interpretation when “there is no showing of a long-standing interpretation by the agency”
• “An amendment which, in effect, construes and . clarifies a prior statute will be accepted as the legislative declaration of the original act.”
• “[O]nly where the statute is ambiguous are courts at liberty to construe the language used.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).