Wilson v. City of St. Louis
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The Supreme Court reversed a portion of the judgment of the circuit court determining that invalid provisions of parking statutes creating duties for municipal offices could not be severed, holding that the circuit court should have entered and struck provisions of the statutes.
Plaintiffs brought this action seeking a judgment declaring the parking statutes at issue in this case, Mo. Rev. Stat. 82.485 and 82.487, were constitutionally invalid because they create powers and duties of municipal offices of a charter city in violation of Mo. Const. art. VI, 22. The circuit court held that the statutes were unconstitutional. The court determined that the constitutionally invalid provisions could not be severed from the remainder of sections 82.485 and 82.487, and therefore, declared the entirety of the parking statues invalid and void. The Supreme Court reversed in part, holding that the circuit court should have entered and struck provisions in sections 82.485 and 82.487 as held in this opinion.
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