Practice question
A permanent inspection law distinguishes dangerous chemical warehouses from ordinary storage based on documented hazard. It nevertheless covers only the dangerous warehouses operating on enactment day and permanently exempts all later warehouses with identical hazards. The record establishes no transitional, reliance or other justification for the date distinction. Every existing dangerous warehouse is treated alike. Which objection remains?
- Equal treatment of existing operators establishes every requisite automatically
- The class arbitrarily excludes substantially identical future conditions despite the continuing purpose
- The hazard difference is irrelevant solely because it is scientific
- A law can never use any effective date
- Future operators are outside the Constitution in every case
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article III, Section 1, equal protection: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
- Albano v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 257610 and UDK No. 17230, January 24, 2023, main decision, requisites of reasonable classification: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jan2023/gr_257610_2023.html
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