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factors enumerated in the Statutory Construction Act. See Butler County Mushroom Farm,
499 Pa. at 516-17, 454 A.2d at 5-6 (citing 1 Pa.C.S. § 1921(a))(observing that "statutory
construction is not an exercise to be undertaken without considerations of practicality, precept
and experience[, "as ignoring such considerations may result in a forced and narrow
interpretation that does not comport with legislative intent). Based upon such considerations,
the rule requiring express legislative delegation is tempered by the recognition that an
administrative agency is invested with the implied authority necessary to the effectuation of
its express mandates. See Butler County Mushroom Farm, 499 Pa. at 513, 454 A.2d at 4;
Pennsylvania Human Relations Com. v. St. Joe Minerals Corp., Zinc Smelting Div., 476 Pa.
302, 310, 382 A.2d 731, 736; Day v. Public Service Comm'n (Yellow Cab Co.), 312 Pa. 381,
384, 167 A. 565, 566 (1933).
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Pa. R. App. P. 2119(b),
http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/210/chapter21/s2119.html.
(b) Citations of authorities.
Citations of authorities must set forth the principle for which they are cited. Citations of
uncodified statutes shall make reference to the book and page of the Laws of Pennsylvania
(Pamphlet Laws) or other official edition, and also to a standard digest, where the statutes
may be found. Citations of provisions of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes may be in
the form: “1 Pa.C.S. § 1928 (rule of strict and liberal construction)” and the official
codifications of other jurisdictions may be cited similarly. Quotations from authorities or
statutes shall also set forth the pages from which they are taken. Opinions of an appellate
court of this or another jurisdiction shall be cited from the National Reporter System, if
published therein, and to the official reports of Pennsylvania appellate courts, if published
therein.
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Examples from Cullen v. Town Council of Lincoln, 893 A.2d 239 (R.I. 2006)
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There can be no doubt that the town's ability to adopt ordinances that govern the construction
and regulation of a public sewer system is both provided for by law, P.L. 1984, ch. 270, and
falls squarely within the municipal police power, see Mill Realty Associates v. Crowe, 841
A.2d 668, 674 (R.I. 2004) ("maintaining a public water supply and requiring that builders
construct extensions to the town's public water system falls squarely within [a municipality's]
police power"); Munroe v. Town of East Greenwich, 733 A.2d 703, 710 (R.I. 1999) ("zoning,
land development and subdivision regulations constitute a valid exercise of [a municipality's]
police power"). Proper exercise of this police power is accomplished exclusively by enacting