Police Power

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1. Which best describes police power?
2. Which two substantive requirements must concur in a valid police-power measure?
3. Which provision principally supplies the general welfare authority of local government units under the Local Government…
4. Under an otherwise valid ordinance, restaurants must keep food at scientifically supported safe temperatures and mainta…
5. An ordinance requires every shop on a street to close permanently so that one privately owned mall can obtain more cust…
6. A coastal city discovers that a few licensed lodging houses have tolerated illegal drug transactions. It orders every l…
7. A city documents sanitation violations at three food stalls. Its council orders all sixty stalls in the public market t…
8. A city requires public swimming pools to install functional filtration equipment, test water regularly and correct unsa…
9. An ordinance prohibits all legitimate inns in a district from operating because some establishments have been used for …
10. A municipality passes a general-welfare ordinance that directly contradicts an express provision of a national statute …
11. In police-power review, whose interests must generally justify interference with private rights?
12. Does invoking police power remove a measure from judicial review when life, liberty or property is affected?