Court Opinion

ID: 9658831
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:17:07.622815+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:00.235723
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). Respondents’ motion for rehearing points out that the county smoke ordinance, in sec. 88.11 (8), does attempt to regulate noxious gases and fumes, and our opinion overlooked that subsection. On re-examination we find this to be true. Therefore we must withdraw our statement that such county ordinance does not attempt to include within the subject matter anything except smoke. Such regulation (air pollution by noxious fumes) is thus pre-empted by the county ordinance, under the declaration of sec. 59.07 (53), Stats., if sec. 88.11 (8) of the county ordinance is valid. Appellant argues that it is invalid on constitutional grounds for lack of standards concerning the quantity and quality of pollution other than the density of smoke, discrimination between different smoke-producing industries which do not differ in their production of smoke, and other alleged constitutional defects in the county ordinance.
We do not determine the constitutional questions because the decision may be reached without doing so. The judgment of the city council concerning the fire hazard is sufficient to sustain the ordinance prohibiting the burning here of the junked automobiles, as determined at page 647 of the opinion.
We direct attention again to the power conferred upon city councils by sec. 66.052, Stats., to regulate, even to the extent of prohibiting, nauseous, offensive, or unwholesome industries, and refer again to the discussion in the opinion concerning the city’s police power.
Quite apart from our error in stating that the county ordinance did not include in its subject matter fumes, odors, stenches, and the like, the city ordinance based on considerations other than smoke and smells, remains a valid exercise of the city’s police power, as stated in the opinion.
*651bRespondents now tell us that the trial court could have declared the city ordinance void for many reasons other than the ones that court relied on in its decision and presented to us in respondents’ brief when the case was before us on appeal. Respondents urge that such questions should be examined now. Even if this were so, that would not require that we modify our mandate.
Motion for rehearing denied without costs.