Court Opinion

ID: 9581496
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:15:29.160751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:00.195618
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring and dissenting) :
I concur in the main opinion with respect to the unconstitutionality of the power of appointment given as to the six members, but dissent from the suggestion that the act is offensive only insofar as it purports to sanction the appointment of the six members of the fifteen member board; ergo, that the remaining nine members appointed by the governor constitutionally may remain in esse, and he may now appoint the other six.
I think all of Section 5(1) of Chapter 138, is unconstitutional. The board is created therein as well as the power to appoint its members, and these two key aspects of the legislation are so inseparably related as to rise or fall together.
It appears that the plaintiff, Governor Rampton, agrees, when he says that “Section 5(1) * * * is unconstitu-
tional and invalid,” and by saying in the last line of his brief that “Section-5(1) * * * must be declared unconstitutional and invalid.” (Emphasis added.)