State v. McFarland

Citations

• 60 Wash. 98
• 110 P. 792
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1015

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law — Class Legislation — Hotels — Inspection —Classification. Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 6030-6049, providing for the inspection of inns, hotels, and public lodging houses having ten or more rooms does not provide an unreasonable classification and does not violate the constitutional prohibitions against class legislation, the deprivation of property without due process of law, the delegation of legislative powers, or the invasion of private rights.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Imprisonment for Debt — Hotels — Payment of Inspection Fee. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6046, making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, for a hotel keeper to refuse to pay the annual fee for hotel inspection, violates Const., art. 1, § 17, forbidding imprisonment for debt.</p> <p>Statutes — Partial Invalidity — Effect. The constitutionality of § 6146, Rem. & Bal. Code, providing imprisonment for failure to pay the hotel inspection fee, does not affect the validity of the balance of the act providing for the inspection of inns and hotels.</p>