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· 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  • noting that the legislation at issue contained a date on which it would be repealed and therefore, once it had accomplished the particular purpose for which it was adopted, it \would die before it could possibly accomplish a like purpose in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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