Court Opinion

ID: 9751537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 16:34:23.841643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:26:50.670100
License: Public Domain

Duncan, J.,
dissenting; The ordinance in question contains no express provision which would either require or authorize any such inspection of records or other supervision of the reproduction of music by licensees as would justify imposition of the classified fees established by the ordinance. In my judgment no such provision should be implied. State v. Gerry, 68 N. H. 495, 503; State v. Cox, 91 N. H. 137, 143; 6 McQuillin, Municipal Corporations (3d ed.) 136,137. It confers a measure of control not contemplated by the ordinance, and unlikely to be exercised in practice. See Lamere v. Chicago, 391 Ill. 552, 562. The fees which will be exacted thus bear no relation to the time and money required to be expended in enforcement, and I would hold the ordinance invalid. State v. Angelo, 71 N. H. 224, 229.