San Antonio Independent School District v. City of San Antonio

How courts have described this case

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• noting that operation of public utility is proprietary function at common law
• stating that article VIII, section 2 refers to ad valorem taxes
• rejecting contention that fuel adjustment charge constituted an improper delegation of rate-making power to city
• city was authorized to delegate to city public service board ministerial duty of computing excess fuel charges according to a formula set by the city council
• city was authorized to delegate to city public service board ministerial duty of computing excess fuel charges according to a formula set by the city council
• “The courts should, however, pass upon the unreasonableness of the rates of a municipally owned utility (set by that municipality) in order to protect the utility customers from being unfairly burdened with the costs of city government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).