Parker-Washington Co. v. City of Kansas City

Citations

• 73 Kan. 722
• 85 P. 781
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 309

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Constitutional Law — Amendment or Repeal of a Statute by Implication. Statutes which effect the amendment of existing laws by implication are not within the purview of the constitutional provision that “no law shall be revived or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived, or the section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed.” (Const, art. 2, §16; Gen. Stat. 1901, § 134.)</p> <p>2. - Classification of Cities — Laws Applicable to a Class. It is competent for the legislature to classify cities according to population for various purposes, and laws applicable to all of the members of any class so created may be general laws and have a uniform operation throughout the state.</p> <p>3. - Reasonable Classification. The matter of the method of providing for the cost of street improvements is one with relation to which cities may -reasonably be divided into classes upon the basis of population.</p> <p>4. - One City in a Class — Lato Not Special. A law for the government of cities of a certain population is not rendered special in its operation by the fact that there is at the time only one city in the state of the size designated.</p> <p>5. - Cities Having Over 50,000 Population — Payment for Street Improvements. Chapter 112 of the Laws of 1905, providing that in cities of the first class having over 50,000 population payment for street improvements shall be made by the issue of tax bills chargeable against the property specially benefited instead of by the issue of negotiable bonds of the corporation, is not obnoxious to that provision of the constitution relating to the amendment of laws, or to that forbidding the conferring of corporate powers by special act, or to that requiring general laws to have a uniform operation throughout the state.</p> <p>6. Bonds — Contractors—Character of Surety — Legislative Control. It is competent for the legislature to require that persons contract