Town of East Greenwich v. O'NEIL

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• holding that although cities and towns that have adopted home-rule charters may exercise authority over purely local matters, municipalities may not legislate on issues of statewide concern because the state legislature retains exclusive power in those areas
• stating that \the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the usurpation of the power of one branch of *Page 30 government by a coordinate branch of government\
• stating that because a city or town is a creature of the state and the city or town council is not a coordinate branch of state government, separation of powers is not implicated on the municipal level
• the legislature intended for Public Utilities Commission to occupy the entire field of regulation
• \Legislative enactments are not always models of style and drafting.\
• “Legislative enactments are not always models of style and drafting.”

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