Court Opinion

ID: 9647714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:48:10.772205+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:52.410688
License: Public Domain

DONNELLY, Judge,
dissenting.
The principal opinion’s analysis of Mo. Const. Art. VI, § 22, and its effect on home rule charter cities, is scholarly and interesting, but it is irrelevant in this case. The essential and determinative question here is whether the city of St. Joseph should be compelled “to honor relator’s master plumber’s license issued by the city of Gladstone * * * >>
If I understand the facts: (1) there is no Chapter 341 board of plumbing examiners in St. Joseph; (2) the nearest such board of plumbing examiners to relator’s place of residence is in Gladstone; (3) relator procured a certificate from the Gladstone board; and (4) the city of St. Joseph refuses to honor it.
Section 341.030, RSMo 1969 provides that persons desiring a certificate to work as a plumber may apply “to the board nearest their place of residence.”
Section 341.050, RSMo 1969 provides that a certificate, when issued, “shall be valid and have force throughout the state *
I find no ambiguity in the statutes. Relator went to the board nearest his place of residence, procured a certificate, and now asks that it be considered valid in St. Joseph, as the statutes mandate.
I would affirm the action of the trial court and, therefore, respectfully dissent.