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- Title: Chicago Etc. Ry. Co. v. Board of R.R. Com.
- Author : Supreme Court of Montana
- Release Date : January 20, 1926
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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Constitution ? Statutes and Statutory Construction ? Railroads ? Board of Railroad Commissioners ? Powers ? Construction of Spur-tracks ? Delegation of Legislative Power ? Invalidity of Statute. Board of Railroad Commissioners ? Extent of Powers. 1. While the board of railroad commissioners, whose acts are valid prima facie, is vested with extensive authority, its powers are only such as are conferred upon it by statute either expressly or by necessary implication. Statutes ? Constitution ? Delegation of Legislative Powers ? What Does not Constitute. 2. Where an Act but authorizes an administrative officer or board to carry out the definitely expressed will of the legislature, although procedural directions and the things to be done are specified only in general terms, it is not vulnerable to the constitutional objection that it carries a delegation of legislative powers. - Page 306 Same ? When Statute Void as Delegating Legislative Powers. 3. To be proof against the assertion that a statute grants legislative power to an administrative board or officer, the power granted must not be so arbitrary in character as to transgress the due process clause of the state or federal Constitution; and where an Act authorizes the taking of property under an administrative regulation without prescribing any conditions under which the officer or board may compel performance of his or its order, and without providing for notice and hearing, it is void as authorizing a deprivation of property without due process of law. Same ? Board of Railroad Commissioners ? Statute Giving Authority to Order Construction of Spur-tracks Invalid as Delegating Legislative Powers. 4. Under the above rule (par. 3), held, that section 3833, Revised Codes of 1921, authorizing the board of railroad commissioners to order railway corporations to construct commercial or industrial spur-tracks under such rules and regulations as the board may establish, without even in the most general terms prescribing the conditions under which it could compel obedience to its order and without requiring the giving of notice to the carrier or providing for a hearing, is void. Statutes ? Constitutionality ? Test. 5. The constitutionality of a statute is to be tested not by what has been done under it, but by what may be done thereunder. Same ? Constitutionality ? Rule. 6. If a statute is susceptible of two constructions, one of which will render it constitutional and the other unconstitutional, the court will prefer the former. Board of Railroad Commissioners ? Power to Order Construction of Spur-tracks for Public Purposes. 7. The legislature has power to authorize the board of railroad commissioners to require railroad companies to construct spur-tracks for public, but not for private, purposes.
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