Court Opinion

ID: 9724211
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:48:36.191331+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:57.554305
License: Public Domain

O’Hara, J.
(dissenting). I agree with the trial judge. It is hardly a novel concept that under our system of government there is a difference between the power to make laws and to enforce them.
However, in the case at bar we deal not with a conflict in authority to make or enforce law, but with a delegation of authority and the implicit authority to enforce the delegated power. Our *309whole national and state system of delegation of power is replete with examples of Congressional and state legislative implicit grants of enforcement power to the concerned board, bureau, or commission. The judicial power properly intrudes only when there is an abuse of the delegated power. If the action of the commission is arbitrary, capricious, or beyond the scope of the power delegated, judicial review is available. The case at bar charges no abuse of delegated enforcement power, merely that such power does not exist.
I hold that it does, and that it is subject to judicial supervision as above noted.
I would affirm the trial judge.