Home Builders Ass'n v. City of Apache Junction

How courts have described this case

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• noting that municipalities “may exercise . . . those powers that arise by necessary implication out of those that are expressly granted”
• stating the adoption of an ordinance “is a legislative act that carries a presumption of validity”
• “General law cities . . . may exercise only those powers expressly granted them by the legislature, together with those powers that arise by necessary implication out of those that are expressly granted.”
• “That counties are expressly limited in the matters for which they may assess fees does not allow us to expand by inference the City’s power nor does it provide us with a basis for construing its power to be broader than that authorized by our constitution or our legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).