City of Scottsdale v. Scottsdale Associated Merchants, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• invalidating a Scottsdale ordinance that conflicted with Arizona law on a sign-regulation issue
• municipality that has been delegated power to enact zoning ordinance “must strictly comply” with state statute that provides for the method of eliminating nonconforming uses
• “When the subject of legislation is a matter of statewide concern the Legislature has the power to bind all throughout the state[.]”
• ordinance of charter city concerning nonconforming signs conflicted with controlling state statute and was therefore void
• “Charter cities have certain rights and privileges in local matters to legislate free from interference by the legislature. When the subject of legislation is a matter of statewide concern the Legislature has the power to bind all throughout the state including charter cities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).