City of Wichita v. Board of County Commissioners

Citations

• 110 Kan. 471
• 204 P. 693
• 1922 Kan. LEXIS 74

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Constitutional Law — Smallpox Epidemic — Expenses Incurred by City of First Class — May Be Recovered from County — Title of Act Sufficient. Section 188 of chapter 122 of the Session Laws of 1903 (Gen. Stat. 1915, § 1408), being one of some two hundred sections of an act relating to cities of the first class, is not void under section 16 of article 2 of the constitution on the ground that its provisions are not within the scope of the title.</p> <p>2. Same — Title of an Act — ;W.hat It May Include. The constitutional provision that the subject of an act shall be clearly expressed in the title does not require that such details as the articulate relationships of cities to counties in their respective capacities as agents of the state, and the duties which they bear towards each other by virtue of that relationship, must be expressed in. the title, and an act of two hundred sections formulating a code for the government of cities of the first class, under a title, “An act relating to cities of the first class,” may include a provision that such a city’s expenditures to suppress a contagious disease are a lawful charge against the county in which such city is located, nor need the title of the act concern itself with such details.</p>