This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
The powers of public corporations are now provided for in most states by statute. Where such statutes are drawn with such detail that it is evidently the intention of the legislature to make complete provision for the power of cities to make contracts, the question of the existence of such power turns upon the construction of such statutes.1 "Where the statutes completely provide for what purposes and in what manner a public corporation may contract, no implied power to contract exists.2
 
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