Court Opinion

ID: 9647293
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:29:56.112437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:05:58.204632
License: Public Domain

SEILER, Chief Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the principal opinion, but would emphasize that under the provisions of Art. VI, Sec. 18, Mo. Const., county charters are instruments which grant power and I take what is said in the principal opinion to be said with that in mind. We are not dealing here with a charter which is an instrument to limit power, as is now true of charters for charter cities under the constitutional amendments adopted in 1971 to Art. VI, Secs. 19 and 19(a) as I understand them. A charter city has the power, provided it is consistent with the Constitution and not denied by the charter or by statute.