...Rule, from an 1868 Iowa case, confirmed the total dependence of municipal governments on the state.1 It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...first, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential...

...treatise author John F. Dillon in 1871, it holds that (as quoted in Gillette and Baker 1999, pp. 275-276): A municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment...

...regarded ... as appropriate subjects of local control"; Dillon 1 191 1. 448-551, "a municipal corporation 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 power expressly granted; third, those essential...

...TEA-21, was PL 102-240, the Transportation Restoration Act. 25. In its entirety, Dillon's Rule states: "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the power expressly granted; third, those essential...

...autonomy of municipal corporations is Dillon's Rule, framed half a century ago by a leading Iowa jurist:20 It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential...

...nineteenth-century Iowa jurist John F. Dillon, to limit the power of local governments. Said Dillon, "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those 70 essential...

...usurped earlier principles of local sovereignty. Judge John F. Dillon laid out his reasoning in 1872: It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the power expressly granted; third, those essential...

...municipalities across America. Dillon's Rule in this regard is embodied in the justice's statement: "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential...