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LEGALITY

Does state statute prevent moving the monument?

By MARTY QUEEN

Senior Reporter, THE PAPER

Posted 9/23/23

Moving a public monument that has caused distress in a sizable portion of the population and that nearly inspired a violent riot doesn’t sound like a difficult thing to accomplish for local governments. Unless, of course, a complicated state statute supersedes local authority …

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