State v. Sharpless

Citations

• 31 Wash. 191
• 71 P. 737
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 604

Syllabus

<p>BARBERS-REGULATION AND LICENSING OF OCCUPATION-STATUTES —1 TITLE OF ACT.</p> <p>The title of an act reciting that it is “an act to regulate the practice of barbering and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, and providing punishment for its violation,” is broad enough to embrace provisions in the act for the appointment of a board of examiners, and their duties and compensation, for the regulation of apprentices, and for the payment of license fees.</p> <p>SAME-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-LOCAL AND CLASS LEGISLATION.</p> <p>The act to regulate barbering (Laws 1901, p. 349) is not void on the ground of being local, class, and special legislation because of the fact that it divides the communities of the state into classes, for which different regulations are provided, when the law is made to operate equally upon all barbers within the respective classifications.</p> <p>SAME.</p> <p>The fact that a law proivdes for the issuance of a certificate without examination, upon the payment of one dollar, to all barbers carrying on their occupation in cities of the first, second and third classes at the time the act took effect, while barbers subsequently coming into those cities would be required to stand examination and pay five dollars for a certificate, would not render the act void as discriminating against one class of citizens in favor of others, since the law operates equally upon all who fall unuer its operation.</p> <p>SAME-APPLICATION OF ACT.</p> <p>An act making it “unlawful for any person to follow the occupation of barber in any incorporated city or town in this state,” under certain conditions, is not restricted in its application' to such municipalities only as were incorporated at the time of its passage.</p> <p>STATUTES-REASON FOE ENACTMENT-PROVINCE OF LEGISLATURE.</p> <p>Courts will not pass upon the sufficiency of the reason for the enactment of a law, which is not in conflict with some constitut’onal provi-ion.</p>