MTAS was asked what the city needs to do in order to implement a hotel-motel tax.

MTAS was asked whether the Town of Gruetli-Laager that operates under the general law Mayor-Alderman Charter is required to have a police department.

MTAS was asked whether a city must obtain a certificate of public purpose and necessity before borrowing funds to buy land for an industrial park.

MTAS was asked why a city is not permitted to deposit city funds in credit unions.

MTAS was asked whether the town's proposed ordinance requiring each business within the town to obtain a 'privilege license' is legal.

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MTAS was asked to prepare a junked car ordinance.

MTAS was asked to analyze the law governing the right of a city to provide utility service in annexed areas over the objections of a utility district.

MTAS was asked whether City A could annex by ordinance an area where City B has an annexation ordinance pending the resolution of a quo warranto suit.

A city cannot pass a model of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act for local application.