City of Spokane v. Lemon

Citations

• 73 Wash. 248
• 131 P. 853
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2167

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Ordinances—Title—Sufficiency. An amendment setting out an ordinance in full is not an amendment by reference to the title merely, and the title is sufficient where it contains well chosen words suggestive of the subject treated without going into details.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations — Charters-—Ordinances-—Repeal—Saving Clauses. Section 119, Spokane City Charter, saving ordinances in force at the time of its adoption, changing to a commission form of government, continues in force an ordinance regulating city stables, which provided for a hearing by the “board of public works,” although the new charter abolished the board, since the new charter substituted the commissioner of public works for the board that was abolished.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations — Ordinances — Retroactive Effect— Criminal Prosecution. In a prosecution for violating an amended ordinance regulating the keeping of city stables, it is no defense that the act was not retroactive and could not affect defendant if he was using the stable prior to the enactment of the amendment, where it appears that he had been violating the original ordinance prior to its amendment, and continued to violate the amended ordinance for one month after its passage.</p>