Fiscal Relations in the American Federal System: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 486 pages |
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Page 347 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Page 407 - AFDC for children of unemployed fathers, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled and aid to aged, blind, or disabled. Quality control review...
Page 353 - Each city shall have and is hereby granted the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs ;. and no enumeration of powers in this constitution or any law shall be deemed to limit or restrict the general grant of authority hereby conferred...
Page 353 - ... cities of its class, and is within such limitations as the legislature may establish by general law. This grant of home rule powers shall not include the power to enact private or civil law governing civil relationships except as incident to an exercise of an independent county or city power, nor shall it include power to define and provide for the punishment of a felony.
Page 175 - average financing system" approach, the revenue capacity of an area is defined as the total amount of revenue that would result by applying within the area the national average rate of the many kinds of state-local revenue sources...
Page 350 - Laws relating to the property, affairs or government of cities, and the several departments thereof, are divided into general and special city laws; general city laws are those which relate to all the cities of one or more classes; special city laws are those which relate to a single city, or to less than all the cities of a class.
Page 136 - US Department of Commerce, Office of Business Economics, Survey of Current Business, various years...
Page 231 - National Survey of Employee Benefits for Full-Time Personnel of US Municipalities, Washington, DC: Labor Management Relations Service of the National League of Cities, 1977, pp.
Page 75 - The problems of overlap, duplication, excessive categorization, insufficient information, varying matching and administrative requirements, arbitrary federal middle management decision, and "grantsmanship," after all, are largely by-products of the growth in numbers and this growth occurred chiefly in the project sector where federal discretion was expanded and the capacity of eligible recipients to hustle was a basic factor in achieving an award.
Page 80 - In allocating financial assistance under the provisions of law specified in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary, so far as practicable, shall consider the relative needs of different areas and communities as reflected in data as to population, poverty, housing overcrowding, housing vacancies, amount of substandard housing, or other objectively measurable conditions...