context: Whether a law falls within the City's police powers does not depend on the lawmakers' subjective intent or the parsing of their proffered or true motives. Rather, the test is whether the law bears a reasonable relationship to the health, safety or welfare of the community, which waste disposal plainly does.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 534 N.Y.S.2d 794, 794
citation_a.parenthetical: invalidating a town law requiring certain applicants for building permits to pay fees that go toward capital improvements to and expansions of state and local transportation infrastructure, noting that the relationship between the law and the presumed purpose of promoting public safety was "tenuous" and that the law was instead "aimed at raising revenues"
citation_a.sentence: See Good Humor Corp., 49 N.E.2d at 155-56 (holding that the “[t]he statement of the purpose of the [law in question] in the committee report is not conclusive” and reiterating that the question is whether the law is “reasonably calculated” to achieve a legitimate police power purpose); cf. Albany Area Builders Ass’n, 534 N.Y.S.2d at 794 (invalidating a town law requiring certain applicants for building permits to pay fees that go toward capital improvements to and expansions of state and local transportation infrastructure, noting that the relationship between the law and the presumed purpose of promoting public safety was “tenuous” and that the law was instead “aimed at raising revenues”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 49 N.E.2d 155, 155-56
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that the "[t]he statement of the purpose of the [law in question] in the committee report is not conclusive" and reiterating that the question is whether the law is "reasonably calculated" to achieve a legitimate police power purpose
citation_b.sentence: See Good Humor Corp., 49 N.E.2d at 155-56 (holding that the “[t]he statement of the purpose of the [law in question] in the committee report is not conclusive” and reiterating that the question is whether the law is “reasonably calculated” to achieve a legitimate police power purpose); cf. Albany Area Builders Ass’n, 534 N.Y.S.2d at 794 (invalidating a town law requiring certain applicants for building permits to pay fees that go toward capital improvements to and expansions of state and local transportation infrastructure, noting that the relationship between the law and the presumed purpose of promoting public safety was “tenuous” and that the law was instead “aimed at raising revenues”).