Derry Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. Town of Londonderry

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• “This court has long recognized that [‘good cause and sufficient reason’] provide adequate criteria to guide a governmental body... in the exercise of its discretion.”
• state statute governing private disposal sites held not to pre-empt local land use regulations
• absent legislative intent or contradiction between local and State statute, local ordinance is valid
• ordinance permitting selectmen to issue private dump or junk yard licenses upon “good cause and sufficient reason” not vague; given ordinance’s stated purpose, “good cause and sufficient reason” are circumstances that provide for “orderly” and “sanitary” disposal of garbage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).