Kemp v. City of Claxton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the petition procedure under Municipal Home Rule Act “applies only to amendments to municipal charters”
• holding that the petition procedure under Municipal Home Rule Act “applies only to amendments to municipal charters”
• “Municipal corporations are creations of the state, possessing only those powers that have been granted to them, and allocations of power from the state are strictly construed. [Cit.]”
• “The cardinal rule of statutory interpretation is to ascertain the legislative intent, ‘keeping in view at all times the old law, the evil, and the remedy.’ ”
• “Municipal home rule power is a delegation of the General Assembly’s legislative power to the municipalities. Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. IX, Sec. II, Par. II.”
• rejecting a direct exercise of legislative power by the electorate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).