Court Opinion

ID: 9573821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:59:38.602296+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:43:24.846047
License: Public Domain

CROCKETT, Justice
(concurring).
I agree that a statute, such as the one under consideration, which attempts to include some and exclude others, is unjustly discriminatory unless the exclusions are on the basis of uniform classification so that all who fall within the same class are affected alike and the classification bears some reasonable relationship to the objective sought to be accomplished by the statute. See Hansen v. Public Employees Retirement etc., 122 Utah 44, 246 P.2d 591, and authorities cited therein. I further agree that the statute in question fails to meet this test because there does not appear to be any reasonable basis for the exclusion of the named businesses which would not with equal reason apply to other businesses which are not excluded. Accordingly, I concur in the holding that the statute is unjustly discriminatory and for that reason unconstitutional.
McDONOUGH, J., does not participate herein.