People v. Ullrich

How courts have described this case

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• noting that had the legislature intended to bestow discretion on the trial court in setting fines for overweight vehicles, it would have eliminated the mandatory language from the statute
• use of “may” in section 5-9-1 indicates the statute was intended to apply to discretionary fines
• if two enactments are capable of being construed so that both may stand, the court should so construe them
• “If the two enactments are capable of being construed so that both may stand, the court should so construe them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).