rational basis test

Under this test, an appellate court will not second-guess the legislature as to the wisdom or rationality of a particular statute if there is a rational basis for its enactment, and if the challenged law bears a reasonable relationship to the attainment of some legitimate governmental objective. The same test may be applied when a court is reviewing a decision of an administrative body because of the expertise of such body. It has been said that the protection of the public from unwise or improvident statutes is to be found at the voting polls or by referendum, not in court. Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113, 134, 24 L.Ed. 77.

This test does not apply, of course, if the statute or decision is unconstitutional. As a standard of review for statutory enactments challenged on equal protection grounds, this test requires that classifications created by a state must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest on some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike. Aladdin's Castle, Inc. v. City of Mesquite, C.A.Tex., 630 F.2d 1029, 1039