Opinion ID: 1141320
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The City Possesses The Authority To Enact Ordinance 91-95.

Text: The Trustees devote considerable energy to the contention that [t]he state legislature never delegated to the City the authority necessary for it to enact an involuntary fee conversion ordinance. Trustees' opening brief at 10-15. The City's statutory authority to enact Ordinance 91-95 is not expressly placed in issue by the federal court's certified question. Nevertheless, we choose to resolve the issue inasmuch as the federal court indicated unambiguously, in the course of settling the precise language of the certified question, that it intended the question [to] be as broad as is appropriate because [it did not] want the Supreme Court to decide the issue, have the matter then go to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, have someone make the argument that ... there [is] still [another] issue, send it back down to [the federal court] ... because it hasn't been decided,... and [the parties] are right back at square one again. Oct. 15, 1992 Tr. at 10-11.