Police Power

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1. What is the nature of an LGU's police power under the general welfare clause?
2. Which pair states the traditional requirements for a valid exercise of police power?
3. Under the lawful-means requirement, a police measure must be reasonably necessary for its purpose and must not be what?
4. A city requires food establishments to follow reasonable sanitation standards directly addressing documented contaminat…
5. An ordinance claims to protect public morals but prohibits conduct that includes substantial innocent, lawful uses. The…
6. To discourage prostitution, a city bans every short-time hotel admission and every second admission to a room in a day.…
7. An LGU invokes police power to prohibit an activity that a controlling national statute expressly authorizes. The facts…
8. State and explain the lawful-subject and lawful-means tests for local police-power ordinances.
9. Explain why White Light does not mean that all regulation of hotels for public morals is unconstitutional.
10. A mayor says an ordinance is immune from review because elected officials have determined what public welfare requires.…
11. Which equal-protection requirement is part of the ordinance-validity standards stated in City of Manila v. Laguio?
12. In Laguio, did the specific authority to regulate hotels and motels automatically include their complete suppression?