CITY OF SAND SPRINGS v. DEPT. OF PUB. WEL.

No. 53768.

608 P.2d 1139 (1980)

The CITY OF SAND SPRINGS, a Municipal Corporation, Sand Springs Chamber of Commerce, a corporation, and Clark Walton, Louise W. Rowe, William D. Bigby, Charles P. Garner, Jr., John W. Boyer, Ron E. Limscler, W.J. Filleright, Mrs. W.J. Filleright, Terry L. Jones, Mrs. Terry L. Jones, Patty Benton, Kenneth R. Whitmore, J.N. Powers, Mrs. J.N. Powers, Docker Kosier, Mrs. Docker Kosier, Mrs. Kathleen Foote, H.E. Hardage, Billy D. Hardage, John D. Hardage, Caroline Purser, Bertha DeCou, Bessie Lusk, Grace R. Baker, Billie Bloss, Anna Mae Austin, Katheryn Brooks, Geneva Garoughty, David O. Snyder, C.L. Purser, Ralph Hall, Roger Snodgrass, Peggy Harrison, Jerry R. Claybrook, Rudy L. Vaughn, Carl Rider, Donald Dohlman, David L. Davis, Don Wilson, Bob McFall, James W. Russell, Jack Earls, Al Standrige, M.D. Lay, Anna Harris, William J. Brown, Steven Peters, Kenneth D. Hice, Ron Dobbs, David F. Lundy, Stanley D. Breedlove, D. Edward Hurst, Jack L. Hill, Richard L. Steinberg, Lloyd L. Patterson, Pat Crosier, Orvis Cromson, Michael E. Thompson, Vicki Dustin, Dewey Turney, Doris Allen, Janet L. Wallace, John W. Patterson, Leo G. Vaughn, Jesse M. Rowe, Jim Jackson, L.B. Ellison, Lanny Childress, J.R. Hoggatt, C.E. Browers, Carolyn Byford, Marcia Youngblood, Patricia A. Wattenbarger, Glenda P. Grayson, Margie McClanahan, Harlan S. Pinkerton, Jr., Opal Bigby, Clarence O. Bigby, Walter Rick Grubb, Ron Hufford. Allen Erwin, Larry W. McBride, Dr. James W. Reed, Paula Thurmond, Terry Jones, J.D. England, Anita Steeher, Joe Ganem, Monte R. Box, Kenneth L. Tisher, Individuals, Appellants, v. The DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, State of Oklahoma, and Lloyd E. Rader, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected March 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.B. Savage, Stephen R. McNamara, Morehead, Savage, O'Donnell, McNulty & Cleverdon, Tulsa, Erwin D. Phillips, Sand Springs, for appellants.

Thomas H. Tucker, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


HARGRAVE, Justice.

The people of the State of Oklahoma, by referendum vote in 1936, established the Department of Public Welfare, giving it powers such that the usual rules of the doctrine of separation of powers do not obtain to restrict the activities challenged here. The people have spoken; the Constitution, as the organic law of the State, will be obeyed. The provisions of Article XXV of the Oklahoma Constitution render...

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