· 4/21/1961
In Re Senate Bill No. 95 of the Forty-Third General Assembly
Citations
- 361 P.2d 350
- 146 Colo. 233
- 1961 Colo. LEXIS 596
How courts have described this case
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- dismissing the “thin veneer of language used to ‘get around’ the constitutional prohibition, and to give the measure a mask of general application”
- striking down the “Glendale Bill,” that by its terms did and could apply only to the city of Glendale
- noting that the legislation at issue contained a date on which it would be repealed and therefore, once it had accomplished the particular purpose for which it was adopted, it \would die before it could possibly accomplish a like purpose in any other place\
- \Once having accomplished [its] particular purpose the act would die before it could possibly accomplish a like purpose in any other place.\
- “Once having accomplished [its] particular purpose the act would die before it could possibly accomplish a like purpose in any other place.”
- a bill authorizing annexation of a town by a city under circumstances unique to one location and providing for automatic repeal of annexation authority shortly after enactment was unconstitutional as special legislation
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Judges: Moore
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