Rush City Hosp. v. Sandstone Area Hosp

2 Citing cases

  1. J.L. Shiely Co. v. County of Stearns

    395 N.W.2d 357 (Minn. 1986)   Cited 2 times

    Although it may well be that the 1984 amendment never became effective because the six affected counties failed to file certificates of approval pursuant to Minn.Stat. ยง 645.021, subd. 3 (1984), the failure to certify local approval simply renders the law ineffective, not unconstitutional. Rush City Hosp. v. Sandstone Area Hosp., 326 N.W.2d 638, 640 (Minn. 1982). If the 1984 amendment did not become effective, the 1983 enactment, which required imposition of the production tax on the removal of aggregate materials from sites in Stearns County, remained in effect.

  2. Masters v. Commissioner

    604 N.W.2d 134 (Minn. Ct. App. 2000)   Cited 4 times
    Holding the areas of environment, natural resources, and agriculture constitute one subject

    The term "special legislation" is reserved for legislation that is "so patently arbitrary as to demonstrate constitutional evasion * * *." Tveten, 402 N.W.2d at 558; see, e.g., Rush City Hosp. v. Sandstone Area Hosp., 326 N.W.2d 638, 639 (Minn. 1982) (holding that a law exempting a sales agreement between two nursing homes from the Minnesota certificate of need statutes was special legislation); Davies v. City of Minneapolis, 316 N.W.2d 498, 501 (Minn. 1982) (holding that an agreement that obligated a municipality to impose a sales tax was special legislation).