Cooper v. City of Goodland

Citations

• 80 Kan. 121
• 102 P. 244
• 1909 Kan. LEXIS 30

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Municipal Corporations — Water-works—Control and Maintenance. Under the provisions of chapter 135 of the Laws of 1907 power is delegated to cities, of the second class to make, by ordinance, any necessary and reasonable regulation for the control, operation and maintenance of water-works plants supplying the inhabitants of the city, provided such regulation be not in derogation of the laws of the state nor subversive of the property rights of the inhabitants.</p> <p>2. - Ordinance Requiring Consumer to Furnish Water-meter Held Reasonable. An ordinance of a city of the second class owning and operating water-works to supply its inhabitants with water which prohibits consumers from taking from its mains any water except such as shall have been measured by means of a water-meter, and which provides that meters of the kind and make ordered by the mayor and council shall be furnished and the expense thereof be borne by the consumers severally, also reserving to the city the right to stop the supply of water for a violation of the regulations, is not unreasonable, but is valid.</p>