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Show CITY LIQUOR LAWS WERE Repealed According to a unanimous opinion of the state supremo court handed down yesterday tho liquor law passed by the last legislature repealed by implication im-plication all ordinances In effect In citlos and Incorporated towns at tho time the state law became effective The net effect of tho decision is that prosecutions now pending under ordinances passed prior to Maj 9, 1911, will have to be beguu ovor again under tho state law or droppod. Cities Cit-ies that have passed ordinances since May 9, 1911, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors where the people have voted "dry" and regulating tholr sale where the peoplo have voted "wet," and which desire to prosecute illegal sales and kindred offenses under un-der city ordinances as well as under state law, must enact new ordinances, and until this is done illegal sales must be punished under state law Under tho opinion citlcA hae no power to prosecute any violator of the law In dry territory evcopt under ordinances or-dinances adopted pursuant to the state law of 1911. If cities in "dry" terri-torj terri-torj have no such ordinances, prosecution prose-cution can only be maintained under the state law. In tho opinion of the court it was expressly stated that no views are expiessed as to the power of the municipalities mu-nicipalities tc enact new ordinances and prescribe and define restrictions, regulations and penalties in harmony with tho statute. On this point the court said: "The question ot tho power of cities and towns of this state to prosecute offenders under tho act. or to what extent, if at all, such cities and towns may pass ordinances prohibiting or regulating tho traffic in intoxicating liquors and prosecute violators thereof, there-of, Is not now before us and wo express ex-press no opinion with regard thereto " Tho opinion was rendered on the appeal of John Llndsaj of Pleasant Grove from the judgment of tho dis trict court of Utah county Lindsay was convicted of having Illegally sold liquor April 3. 1911 The prosecution was under a municipal ordinance. The supremo court roorsed the judgmont of tho district court with directions to dismiss the action and discharge Lindsay. Tho opinion was written by Chief Justice J B. Frlck and was concurred in by Justices D. N. Straup and W. M. McCarty. nn . |