Roberts v. Spray

How courts have described this case

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• determining that legislation adding requirement that a resident real property owner must also be a taxpayer to vote in hospital district did not impermissibly add to constitutional requirement that voter must be a property owner
• noting that when statutes and the Constitution “relate to the same subject, like statutes in pari materia, they are to be construed together” (quoting Cooper Mfg. Co. v. Ferguson, 113 U.S. 727, 733 (1885))
• noting statutes are to be read in light of the constitution and other statutes relating to the same matter
• noting 5 CONWAY v. ARIZONA INDEPENDENT Decision of the Court that the legislature is “presumed to have known of and had in mind” applicable constitutional provisions when enacting legislation
• “The fact that a constitutional provision is self-executing does not necessarily exhaust legislative power on the subject but such legislation must be in harmony with the spirit of the constitution.”

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