Court Opinion

ID: 9557772
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:57:13.830604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:35.677044
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Gunderson, J.,
with whom Batjer, C. J. agrees,
dissenting:
*336I respectfully dissent.
Although the Washoe County Airport Authority Act interjects Washoe County into the ownership and administration of Reno’s airport (a highly substantial business venture), our colleagues say the Act merely “relates to” but does not “regulate” county business. With all respect, my colleague Batjer and I feel this declaration is not explained sufficiently so that it can be understood and accepted. To us, it appears the legislation in question is subject to concerns our Constitution sought to avoid, to-wit: that important local legislation should not be adopted by legislators from elsewhere “without any feeling of responsibility on their part, thus often leading to improper combinations among the members and even to vicious legislation that would not be permitted were it to affect the whole state.” McDonald v. Beemer, 67 Nev. 419, 426, 220 P.2d 217, 220 (1950). To us also, it appears henceforth the involvement of other counties in airports elsewhere in Nevada will be different from, and not uniform with, Washoe County’s involvement in the business of governing the Reno Airport.