State ex rel. City of Yakima v. Clausen

Citations

• 116 Wash. 620
• 200 P. 311
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 975

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (9)—Classification of Cities—Adoption of Commission Eobm of Government—Statutes—Construction. Under Rem. Code, §§ 7670-1 to 7670-24, providing that cities having a population from 2,500 to 20,000, on adopting a commission form of government, should have the powers of, and he governed by the laws applicable to, second-class cities, a third-class city adopting the commission government did not thereby become a city of the second class, though entitled to such rank by reason of population; since a city can advance from one classification to another only by taking the steps provided in Rem. Code, § 7482 et seq.</p>