Many of those localities have passed ordinances against cannabis clubs and only a few have passed ordinances allowing them in some form.
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These ordinances — referred to as "one touch make ready" ordinances — permit new providers to perform all the required work in the make-ready process themselves, i.e.
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While the ordinances claim to outlaw abortion, the procedure remains legal in Texas, and the ordinances state that they can not take effect as long as Roe vs.
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Beyond the bathroom rule, H.B.85003 wiped out local minimum wage ordinances, as well as non-discrimination ordinances (NDOs) in 18 other North Carolina localities that hadn't caused any uproar.
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Noise ordinances for certain times of day could restrict schedules.
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Challenges building the community: Noise ordinances are always a bitch.
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The language of the ordinances varies from city to city.
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Certain local ordinances, however, can prohibit the practice in some places.
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The city passed two ordinances in 2017 to address the issue.
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Moreover, such ordinances raise serious issues of labor and contract law.
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The bill, as written, prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances.
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To that end, surveillance ordinances that passed in Seattle; Oakland, Calif.
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The jail has historically held violators of city ordinances and traffic laws.
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The fields to either side are littered with landmines and unexploded ordinances.
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Today the state of law is that these ordinances are not justified.
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Similar ordinances have passed in nine other cities, and Santa Clara County.
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Brackney cautioned, however, law breakers aren&apost likely to heed city ordinances.
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I'll add, SB 2827 does not override any local inclusionary zoning ordinances.
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Eight Oregon counties approved "Second Amendment Preservation Ordinances" last November, per Reuters.
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"It wasn't enforceable," Giaimis said of previous ordinances related to barking dogs.
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But Becerra declined, since the local ordinances do not override state law.
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Unlike HB23, McGrady's bill had a referendum provision for local nondiscrimination ordinances.
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Also know the ordinances covering boating and docking boats in that area.
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His government bypassed the Parliament and issued ordinances to advance his policies.
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And he offered pragmatic solutions, like flexible city ordinances on property use.
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Crank this one loud, often, and with zero regard for noise ordinances.
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Conspicuously absent from that provision -- showing the act's true intent -- are local ordinances.
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There, legislators supposedly fixed the bill to ensure that nondiscrimination ordinances were protected.
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Pat McCrory in March, also bars localities from enacting ordinances to the contrary.
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"This has added fuel to our fire," Williams said of the recent ordinances.
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In dry areas: • Obey local ordinances regulating the sale and use of fireworks.
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It also supersedes ordinances protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination.
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It provided individuals and businesses broad religious exemptions from municipal non-discrimination ordinances.
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The shelter is challenging local ordinances that prevent discrimination based on gender identity.
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The law also prevents local cities from creating their own anti-discrimination ordinances.
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They've gotten closed by city ordinances, been robbed, or closed because of raids.
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The state has environmental codes and ordinances and a Department of Environmental Quality.
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The clerk's office keeps all City Council meeting agendas, minutes, legislation, ordinances, etc.
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But Dickson argues that the ordinances are not intended to provoke legal challenges.
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However, local ordinances mostly deal with reducing nuisance to neighbors (such as noise).
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Brookline and Berkeley's ordinances could signal a new trend in local climate action.
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We demand that Islamabad cleanse Waziristan of land mines and other unexploded ordinances.
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She said that Hong Kong citizens now have many civil rights enshrined in a bill of rights that the British added to the city's ordinances near the end of their rule, but that the treason and sedition ordinances were never updated.
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More recently, "blood relative ordinances" have been proposed by white communities, requiring tenants to be related by blood to their landlords, as well as "kinship ordinances" that require prospective tenants to secure a letter of recommendation from a current resident.
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Seven California cities and Lafayette, Colorado, have enacted similar ordinances, according to health officials.
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Parliament must approve ordinances within six months, but governments can sometimes get around this.
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The result: ordinances in cities like Charlotte, protecting LGBT persons from discrimination, are gone.
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The Court of Common Pleas stayed the ordinances in May as the case proceeded.
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Several municipalities have rolled out surveillance-curtailing laws and ordinances in the past year.
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Campaigns promoted face masks and targeted spitting in public with misdemeanor ordinances and fines.
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The same twisted logic is at play in the French ordinances against the burkini.
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Neighboring cities like Oakland and Berkeley have already passed similar but slightly weaker ordinances.
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The law still bars local municipalities from enacting their own nondiscrimination ordinances before 2020.
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And that is exactly what happens with the local referendum on the [nondiscrimination ordinances].
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But the state Legislature responded by passing a law that effectively repealed the ordinances.
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Ordinances criminalized newsstand comics sales in the late 21950s in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and more.
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Local officials compared the ordinances to truancy laws, acting as deterrents rather than punishments.
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Local politicians in California and elsewhere shot to stardom by introducing anti-immigrant ordinances.
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"We are troubled by ordinances that target calls for police service," Ms. Park said.
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They have also nurtured tough state bills and local ordinances to check illegal immigration.
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A second violation brings a fine consistent with those listed in the local ordinances.
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Wade still on the books, these ordinances prohibiting abortions within city limits are unenforceable.
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They formed groups opposing the new rules, and launched a petition against the ordinances.
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"That's one of the reasons why we've been pushing these ordinances everywhere," he adds.
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The anti-abortion ordinances are part of a statewide trend of attempting to regulate abortion, Tigner said, and the ACLU expects that the ordinances will galvanize state lawmakers in the next legislative session to consider a ban on abortion in Texas, she said.
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Nearly 80 counties and cities have passed resolutions or ordinances that banned or opposed fracking.
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It included a provision barring local ordinances making further accommodations for transgender people until 2020.
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Rick Scott over a law they say blocks them from passing local gun control ordinances.
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Maybe you're shackled by local noise ordinances, or are a conscientious resident of wildfire country.
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Still, according to the ACLU, municipalities are increasingly enacting new nuisance ordinances across the country.
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Kobach helped small towns draft draconian immigration ordinances that failed to survive inevitable legal challenges.
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But other controversial provisions — including a temporary ban on local antidiscrimination ordinances — remain in effect.
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But research shows that "crime-free" ordinances single out domestic violence victims who call police.
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More than 115 other cities in California have passed similar anti-Styrofoam ordinances so far.
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Local groups face a welter of ordinances and safety codes, as well as FAA restrictions.
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Like other municipal ordinances in Westchester County, Harrison's laws do not explicitly prohibit firearm retailers.
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They were all convicted of violating city ordinances between 2007 and 2009, when they sued.
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These ordinances also lay a groundwork for how abortion access may change after the pandemic.
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The ads include notices of public hearings, ordinances, calls for bids, auctions and sheriff's sales.
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"Compliance with regulatory laws and city ordinances is extremely important in our business," he said.
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The ruling allowed the plaintiffs to seek an injunction against enforcement of the city's ordinances.
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Restrictive zoning ordinances are a racist legacy of Jim Crow-era efforts to enforce segregation.
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Before HB 2, Wallace said, local governments were allowed to institute their own anti-discrimination ordinances.
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At least five major cities in Texas have local non-discrimination ordinances specific to LGBT people.
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House Bill 2 also prevents cities from passing antidiscrimination ordinances to protect gay and transgender people.
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Several groups including Firearm Owners Against Crime filed a lawsuit against the city over the ordinances.
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Juul spent $665,239 lobbying against the two ordinances in April and May, according to public records.
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This can either be a really difficult process or an easy one, depending on local ordinances.
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Some California cities, including San Francisco, San Mateo and Lancaster, already have similar ordinances in place.
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Colorado passed legislation in 2003 aimed at ensuring a state law on firearms supersedes local ordinances.
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For decades, cities across the country have enacted nuisance ordinances in attempt to curb disruptive behavior.
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The guidance advises offending municipalities to repeal their ordinances in order to follow fair housing practices.
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Encouraged by an alien named Moonbeam Funk, they battle (via trampolines) the government's no-dance ordinances.
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And it spurred other communities in the state to enact ordinances to encourage all-electric construction.
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Mr. Martin and the other plaintiffs subsequently filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the city's ordinances.
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But even as it repealed the law, the state affirmed its prohibition of local antidiscrimination ordinances.
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" Elsewhere, it stated that if H.B. 2 were repealed, the City Council could "enact new ordinances.
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"Normally, mayors should remove their ordinances following this decision, except if they want to race against the clock and go to court," Mr. Muhammad said, noting that the ordinances are set to expire in the coming weeks, while the court process can drag on for longer.
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Finally, we have a federal bill that offers real solutions, drawing from successful ordinances across the globe.
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The companies threatened to leave Austin, as they have in other cities that have passed restrictive ordinances.
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From federal employment laws to state laws and city ordinances, employees have recourse for wrongdoing by employers.
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She believes ordinances like the one the ACLU is pushing are a first step to accomplish this.
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Most city ordinances say (and scooter rental companies insist) that electric scooters shouldn't be ridden on sidewalks.
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Local leaders should also review their ordinances and policies to make sure they are inclusive, not discriminatory.
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To get the honor, local homes and businesses had to abide by local ordinances limiting light pollution.
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Plastic straw bans were also a hot topic last year, with several cities passing plastic straw ordinances.
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Greg Abbott is publicly feuding with city officials in Austin for passing local ordinances to decriminalize homelessness.
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Getting laws and ordinances changed — a laborious process before the crisis — takes even longer now, she said.
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Ms. Park said similar nuisance ordinances in other American cities have disproportionately worked against domestic violence victims.
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It will only be a matter of time before these ordinances trickle down to online delivery services.
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Dozens of cities across the country had enacted ordinances that protected lesbian and gay people from discrimination.
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Regional ordinances to accommodate Shariah law have multiplied, the result of the relative autonomy of some regions.
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It starts with discussing ordinances, creating petitions, and making officials accountable for what changes they are allowing.
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Mausoleums are considered private property and thus not subject to the same ordinances that govern other burial places.
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Taking significant amounts of public money for many years against public rules and ordinances is a criminal offense.
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The Ohio gun rights groups have requested that the new ordinances be suspended until their lawsuits are settled.
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The new wording of the law adds to the city's existing ordinances against discrimination based on protected class.
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Beneath those state laws, there's also a slew of unique city ordinances that make it illegal to panhandle.
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The legislation does not prevent cities or counties from adopting stricter ordinances to further regulate plastic straw use.
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Some communities, mostly in Northern California, have adopted ordinances to operate drug collection programs funded by drug makers.
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The law reserves to the state the right to pass nondiscrimination legislation, saying state laws supersede local ordinances.
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Dozens of cities, from Boston and Chicago to Salt Lake City already have local ordinances on the books.
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For example, last year Austin and San Antonio passed ordinances that require employers to offer paid sick leave.
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The council approved three ordinances, long sought by developers, that would take cars off stretches of the beachfront.
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The law effectively blocks local governments from passing their own anti-discrimination ordinances that include those broader protections.
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As well as prohibiting this, House Bill 2 also stopped any other municipal governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances.
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It also supersedes ordinances protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination, The New York Times reports.
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In contrast, having a patchwork of individual local ordinances is not a nationwide solution to a nationwide problem.
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It would also overturn any local antidiscrimination ordinances that permit transgender citizens to choose which bathroom to use.
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Several cities in Arkansas passed anti-discrimination ordinances despite the state law that was meant to ban them.
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Even worse, they further nullified all city ordinances, across the entire state, that granted protections to LGBT individuals.
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The ordinances will now go into effect as the decision is sent back down to a lower court.
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There were seemingly no noise ordinances, and essentially no laws when we were out on the open ocean.
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Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said ordinances banning gatherings or closing schools were best handled at the local level.
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About 40 towns and cities across the Philippines have similar ordinances against discriminating based on someone's gender identity.
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The enactment of more effective preservation ordinances would help keep an important chapter of 20th-century history alive.
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They actively report on school board elections, new business openings, changes in city ordinances, community gatherings and such.
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At least a dozen, from Boston to San Francisco to Kansas City, have enacted energy benchmarking ordinances since.
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Most of the towns that have enacted the anti-abortion ordinances have populations of less than 6,000 people.
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Industry groups often call for an environmental-impact statement, or E.I.S., to delay or stop anti-bag ordinances.
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Regulation of backyard flock ownership is a patchwork of state-by-state and city-by-city local ordinances.
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"Counties with 25 cities, it would be impossible to enforce" different ordinances, said sheriffs association President Mike Adkinson.
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Another feature of the law: It stops cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect gay and transgender identity.
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It would also walk back city ordinances that explicitly protect transgender rights and prevent new ones from being enacted.
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Sedona city attorney Robert Pickels, who defended the city's ordinances, is sanguine, despite wrestling with the issue for years.
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Activists also want time to double-check with Bedminster's town ordinances to make sure they don't break any rules.
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"Even though the ordinances can't be enforced until federal law is changed, they serve as a deterrent," Parma said.
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Teton County, where Moran is located, has strict noise ordinances that require any sounds being made after 10 p.m.
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Plus, if it helps you sleep better, users are still bound to the FAA's drone rules and local ordinances.
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Our new report makes recommendations for how cities can focus their energy when enacting their own drone-related ordinances.
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The compromise bill, however, drew scrutiny from some Democratic activists because it placed restrictions on local anti-discrimination ordinances.
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There are also a wide range of compelling policy reasons why one-touch-make-ready ordinances make little sense.
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These "chronic nuisance" or "crime-free" ordinances are some of the most troubling examples of the criminalization of poverty.
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Reason magazine made a similar argument in 2017, as several cities passed ordinances banning the sale of menthol products.
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Since then, the Bests have dug into Severance's other ordinances and found that Dane's guinea pig is also illegal.
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To fight the problem, officials stepped up law enforcement, and the city and county passed more than 20 ordinances.
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They can include a police citation and a penalty as high as $11,000, depending on local and state ordinances.
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According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city already boasts one of the strongest ordinances nationwide around spy technology.
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"Emergency ordinances, face-mask bans and curfews are not the best way to restore business confidence," Ms. Joseph said.
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Schools, employers, municipalities and landlords are also empowered to adopt policies and ordinances further restricting the cultivation and use.
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Despite the many obstacles, more than two hundred municipalities have passed such ordinances, many of them with Romer's help.
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The case centered on two Boise ordinances that prohibited camping or "disorderly conduct" by lodging or sleeping in public.
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In Houston, the fourth most-populous U.S. city, Lyft left in 2014 over local ordinances including the fingerprint checks.
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It also nullifies local ordinances like the one passed in Charlotte that established anti-discrimination protections for L.G.B.T. people.
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Cody High School had 30 violations of city code ordinances, and the school district has 403 days to comply.
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That last point is meant to prevent ordinances such as one Charlotte City Council passed in February 22020, before HB22.
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Dan Patrick, the bill would prohibit local governments from adopting ordinances regulating bathroom and locker room access of private businesses.
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H.B. 2 eliminates non-discrimination ordinances and effectively writes into the state law of North Carolina discrimination against LGBT people.
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Other cities are trying to pass ordinances of their own, but some are being met with resistance from local government.
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Educate yourself about trees and get involved: Many cities have tree ordinances that seek to protect very old, significant trees.
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The home will be exempt from future ordinances as long as Jastrzebski and Nemhauser maintain the appearance of the murals.
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Statehouses—typically those dominated by Republicans—are adopting what are known as pre-emption laws designed short-circuit local ordinances.
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Anti-discrimination ordinances aren't standard yet—they're a necessary but inadequate response to the absence of federal anti-discrimination law.
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In addition, more than 28500 cities and municipalities have local ordinances that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
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If the Trump administration succeeds, transgender Americans' rights would rest on a patchwork array of state laws and local ordinances.
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The law also blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances that include protections based gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Several cities, beginning with Los Alamitos in Orange County have passed or are considering ordinances opting-out of SB 54.
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Based on the bills incurred over Kobach-authored ordinances in Texas and Pennsylvania, Fremont established a $2 million defense fund.
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A combination of responses is needed, including more funding for affordable housing, inclusionary zoning and, yes, modern rent control ordinances.
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But that was a mostly empty gesture, since Georgia has no statewide laws protecting gays and lesbians, only local ordinances.
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In response, North Carolina lawmakers enacted HB 2, a state law barring local municipalities from enacting their own nondiscrimination ordinances.
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The measure also would overturn local ordinances affirming transgender bathroom rights in such cities as Austin, San Antonio and Dallas.
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These women wished to remain anonymous, and any records of police reports are protected by the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinances.
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Ms. Foscarinis said her group had identified more than 20 other city ordinances that could be affected by the ruling.
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State and local bump stock bans face legal challenges, and local ordinances banning the devices in Ohio have been overturned.
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Local ordinances and some state laws — and homeowners' insurance policies — often require pool owners to have fences that limit access.
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At least 13 cities are considering such ordinances, and three -- Mineral Wells, Omaha and Jacksboro -- have already voted against them.
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What they do: Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, State, or Federal laws and ordinances.
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The fines called for in the local ordinances — sometimes just in the hundreds of dollars — are small by baseball standards.
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North Carolina's HB 2 hearkened to a decades-long pattern of state legislatures seeking to block local anti-discrimination ordinances.
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At least 375 municipalities have ordinances that permit golf carts (sometimes called golf cars) on public roads, Mr. Somers said.
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In response, the legislature passed H.B. 2 to outlaw that bathroom policy and forbid local jurisdictions from passing antidiscrimination ordinances.
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What's more, "nuisance" property ordinances allow police to punish landlords if too many 911 calls are made from their properties.
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He also imposed a series of more petty law-and-order ordinances, like banning alcohol consumption between 1 and 8 am.
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But even residents left after stricter noise ordinances and high crime rates in the early '19833s chased off businesses and customers.
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Local governments would be prohibited from passing anti-discrimination ordinances that extended the protections to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
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While some Texas cities have local ordinances, there's no such thing as a hate crime against people at the state level.
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First, it would require that cities and counties that propose new LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances give the state legislature 30 days' notice.
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Contained in five "ordinances", under an accelerated procedure already approved by parliament, the reform will be written into law next month.
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Another amendment would prevent Oregon cities from passing more restrictive ordinances of their own, including those that would ban straws altogether.
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When a parcel of land becomes a reservation, the tribe enacts its own ordinances regulating zoning, housing, education, and other priorities.
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In 2015, it announced a new policy barring the children of same-sex couples from receiving essential, saving ordinances like baptism.
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Some of them live in big cities in the South like Atlanta and Dallas, where they are protected by local ordinances.
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LGBT rights groups assailed the replacement bill, which will still prevent localities from enacting new anti-discrimination ordinances for several years.
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However, the ordinances will likely be struck down by the courts and their legal claims in the administration's lawsuit will fail.
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But he has denied the campaign is anti-poor and argues police are just targeting violations of city ordinances and laws.
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Mill Valley's ordinance is designed to frustrate those efforts, while remaining within the letter of federal law, which preempts local ordinances.
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In the 1960s, with the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, urging "beautification" of the nation, some towns passed anti-neon ordinances.
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Mr. Hofer said he had recognized the tool — it was made by Vigilant Solutions, a target of his sanctuary city ordinances.
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House Bill 2 prevents cities, towns, and counties from enacting any local ordinances prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and sexuality.
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Ban-the-box bills passed with other fair-chance ordinances are better because they go further in their protections, he said.
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Increasingly strict ordinances governing how and when businesses can operate have effectively put these industries on hold with potentially devastating consequences.
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But under local laws known as criminal activity nuisance ordinances, these calls also placed them at risk of losing their homes.
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What these percent-for-art ordinances do not address is what happens to the public artwork after it has been installed.
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We are complying with all state, county, city and local ordinances and we will continue to adjust to any future developments.
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The law – which repeals HB2 but restricts local anti-discrimination ordinances until 2020 – comes at a key time for the state.
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" Alexandra Zaraf, 27, one of many young protesters in Bucharest, asked, "What self-respecting government issues emergency ordinances at 9 p.m.
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Now, hotel companies worry about Airbnb's use of Section 230 in lawsuits seeking to block local ordinances regulating home-sharing platforms.
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ISPs like AT&T have also been known to try and sneak such bans into traffic ordinances or other unrelated bills.
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We will use federal pre-emption laws to ensure these new units are not segregated or excluded by local zoning ordinances.
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Provide funding to states that pre-empt local exclusionary zoning ordinances to make housing more equitable, accessible and affordable for all.
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"Local ordinances and state laws criminalize disability," Ressl-Moyer says, noting that the legal system is stacked against disability from the start.
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A Pennsylvania judge struck down three Pittsburgh gun reform ordinances inspired by the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue last year.
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Just nine cities (and one county) have similar ordinances on the books, with roughly another two dozen cities and states considering them.
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But the Court again decided that such tallying was not required; it said the Hialeah ordinances did not come close to constitutionality.
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In 1966, the Uniform Time Act was passed and gave states the option to forego DST observation if they passed proper ordinances.
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A bill in the state legislature that would block cities' ordinances has stalled, but the foundation has sued to overturn Austin's rules.
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It states that no city can pass laws or ordinances that are in opposition to or more stringent than a state statute.
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On August 16, Everett City Council passed two ordinances effectively banning bare midriffs, exposed shoulders, shorts, and bikinis in quick serve restaurants.
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Even some cities, faced with rising levels of homelessness, have moved to pass local ordinances that add protections for their homeless residents.
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However, the law replacing it isn't entirely LGBTQ-friendly, since it prohibits local governments from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances for three years. Rep.
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For decades, anti-LGBTQ forces have worked to repeal non-discrimination ordinances that provide protections for our community at the local level.
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Shouldn't there be a reason to create legislative action above a fear of gay marriage and non-discrimination ordinances throughout the state?
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The Arkansas and Tennessee legislatures have passed laws that, like North Carolina's, ban local anti-discrimination ordinances that differ from state law.
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They passed more than 20 ordinances to curb the debauchery, drinking and violence that they had concluded was marring the town's image.
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For local ordinances, it is best either to look at the locality's website or call to see if there are any restrictions.
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Whether you're talking about gang ordinances, you're talking about weapons rules — which we have in some states, different ones in different states.
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In colonial times, indentured servants and prison inmates were purportedly fed them almost daily, until ordinances were passed to prevent such cruelty.
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The selective enforcement of minor ordinances, as many critics note, performs the same work today that segregation laws did in the past.
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He is known to eschew cultural norms and local ordinances by doing it anyway, but usually only in the dark of night.
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Advocates for abortion rights argue that while the ordinances cannot actually outlaw abortion, they are spreading misinformation to those seeking the procedure.
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New York banned fracking in 2628, Maryland recently followed suit, and local ordinances to limit it have been passed in 28503 states.
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Under the ordinances, both of those groups were labeled "criminal organizations," according to the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. district court.
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In Texas, the Legislature has barred cities from adopting ordinances to open housing opportunities for low-income renters with government housing assistance.
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They are, after all, very technical; some seem like a line in your insurance claim you gloss over, others like construction ordinances.
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Many wear buttons that ask, "Move Along to Where?" and are challenging misdemeanor citations and anti-camping ordinances, like Denver's, in court.
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Such ordinances were designed, in theory, so that landlords can weed out people who call the police too often for frivolous reasons.
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Editorial A man's home may be his castle, but even castles are governed these days by zoning codes and other local ordinances.
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The city attorney's office tells CNN while the city does not have any drone ordinances, it could charge the owner with reckless endangerment.
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There also might be certain cities or counties that have specific ordinances outlawing flamethrowing devices, but Mashable did not confirm any such laws.
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The proposed measure would have repealed HB2 while limiting the ability of local governments to pass non-discrimination ordinances without preventing them outright.
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The owner of one stand, Hillbilly Hotties, and some baristas sued, saying the new ordinances violated the baristas' First and 14th amendment rights.
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The city of Ketchum, Idaho, has ordinances in place that require lights to be "shielded" so the light points down toward the street.
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Not only have the complaints been dropped, the family is now protected from future ordinances that may raise issues around their unique home.
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After months of legal wrangling — including passing new city ordinances — Memphis finally removed its monuments to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen.
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When that bill was amended to ensure that the law did not trump local nondiscrimination ordinances, the sponsor of the bill, State Sen.
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Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto signed the ordinances into law 11 months after a gunman killed 11 mostly elderly worshipers on October 27, 2018.
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Since that movement formed in reaction to anti-queer ordinances remarkably like the ones we see today, this is not an insignificant oversight.
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Keep in mind that this map is based on statewide rules, but some cities or counties may have different local ordinances in place.
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While I certainly have sympathy for efforts to reduce barriers to broadband entry, there are several compelling problems with such "one touch" ordinances.
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The lawsuit asks the courts to declare the legal brothel ordinances in Elko, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey and White Pine counties unconstitutional.
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Over time, the laws proliferated and evolved, and today, police departments have wide latitude to choose when and where to enforce the ordinances.
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Charles Berman, a resident and real estate executive experienced in wrangling with local ordinances, started Avalon Properties (later known as AvalonBay) in 1993.
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"When you pass more local rent control ordinances, more people are going to run into the brutal reality of Costa-Hawkins," explained Singh.
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It was the Nixon administration that first relied on this enforcement tool to challenge exclusionary zoning ordinances that negatively impacted communities of color.
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The law excluded provisions for sexual orientation and gender identity, however, and it also superseded all such ordinances at the local level statewide.
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That's in addition to 28 cities or other local jurisdictions — New York, Chicago, San Francisco and others — with their own ordinances, Hum said.
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The new law supersedes any anti-discrimination ordinances at the local level — such as the one recently passed by the city of Charlotte.
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Courts should also explore increasing access for people to pay fines for traffic offenses or violations of municipal ordinances by mail or online.
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It also passed ordinances requiring developers and contractors to have a rat-control plan before demolishing buildings or breaking ground on new projects.
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His resort in recent days to rule by emergency ordinances, including shutting down the courts, raised alarms about the future of Israeli democracy.
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"Counties with 25 cities, it would be impossible to enforce" different ordinances, Mike Adkinson, president of the Florida Sheriffs Association, said in February.
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The blast's impact on homes near the industrial site underscored the absence of ordinances that separate the city's residential, business and industrial areas.
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Abortion is still legal in Texas In reality, the ordinances are criminally unenforceable because of the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v.
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Another concern is the pre-emption of local gun ordinances by state laws approved by politicians in the sway of the gun lobby.
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The resolutions or ordinances passed by Santa Cruz, Oakland and Denver don't apply to drugs such as LSD or MDMA, which are synthetic.
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At the local level, mayors and city councils have passed ordinances to address their communities' priorities — including issues where national leaders are stuck.
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Other major metropolitan centers with strict gun control ordinances such as New York, Detroit and Chicago also experienced dizzying rates of gun homicides.
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" She added she is "under no illusion about the limits of these ordinances," and said, "This cannot be the end of our work.
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Something to keep in mind: Communities tend to transform every 15 years or so as residents come and go, or local ordinances change.
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Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that Tennessee's law does not pre-empt cities from passing short-term-rental ordinances.
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End exclusionary and restrictive zoning ordinances and replace them with zoning that encourages racial, economic and disability integration that makes housing more affordable.
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"It's one of those ordinances that was passed long before I ever came, and we have no interest in enforcing it," Norman told WBRC.
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"There is no political motivation on the part of the city, simply our interest in having our code and ordinances complied with," she said.
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The next day, the city of Sunland Park issued a stop-work order to the group, declaring the project in violation of city ordinances.
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If renting out homes in apparent violation of local ordinances has proved thorny, there's no reason to expect these experiences to be any different.
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This week, in a rapid-fire special session, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted a law that eliminates all local ordinances prohibiting LGBT discrimination.
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The law requires people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender at birth and prevents local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances.
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The law was amended so that it could not be used to override current and future civil rights protections, including local anti-discrimination ordinances.
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But locally elected Islamists have passed over 400 local ordinances based on Islamic law since the country's regions were granted more autonomy in 1999.
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Conservative and libertarian think tanks, supported by local Airbnb operators, have filed lawsuits against cities around the country to overturn ordinances on home-sharing.
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He asks because I'm an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest group that has sued Seattle over several of its housing ordinances.
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The ballot measure sought to repeal California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law enacted in 1995 that weakened municipal rent control ordinances.
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The appeals court said the local ordinances effectively merged the two lots, meaning the family could only sell or build on the combined property.
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" The developer also projected that, "With the initial occupancy of these homes, the owners... will effectively control the local government, its zoning and ordinances.
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Thus, given Congress's detailed paradigm set forth in Section 224, it is highly unlikely that one-touch-make-ready ordinances would survive judicial scrutiny.
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More than 70 pieces of legislation dealing with discrimination ordinances have been introduced in nearly two dozen states, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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The practice of allowing state governments to block local ordinances is called preemption and beyond its anti-democratic implications, preemption has troubling racial overtones.
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On the issue of chronic nuisance ordinances, as with criminalization of poverty across the board, activists will have to move forward without federal help.
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They hit a roadblock when applying for a permit — they learned an addition was put on the home without approval and violated setback ordinances.
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What they do, according to O*NET: Inspect buildings for fire hazards and to enforce fire ordinances, or investigate fires to find their causes.
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Numerous municipalities nationwide, such as Cincinnati, Louisville, Kentucky, and Macon, Georgia, have enacted citywide ordinances in recent months decriminalizing activities specific to marijuana possession.
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Thousands of people have taken to the streets on Maui, Kauaʻi and Hawaii Islands and passed county ordinances to regulate the agri-chemical operations.
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But the death of Prince was a special occasion that even city officials understood needed to be celebrated, that transcended earthly laws and ordinances.
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There will be a moat of roadway around the new stadium, called SunTrust Park, and there are ordinances against sidewalk vendors in Cobb County.
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Number employed in the US: 661,330What they do, according to O*NET: Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing laws and ordinances.
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Georgia has held an informational hearing on the subject, and more than 20 Florida cities and counties have enacted local ordinances prohibiting the practice.
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This could include coverage of things like local ordinances, school closings, shelter-in-place laws, number of cases and deaths, testing resources and more.
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The arrests this week were a stinging rebuke to sanctuary cities, several of which have passed ordinances or policies preventing full cooperation with ICE.
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The new constitution authorizes Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions andappoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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In Oregon, voters in eight counties approved Second Amendment Preservation Ordinances last November that allow sheriffs to determine which state gun laws to enforce.
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Mayors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Columbia, South Carolina (and several others) have passed gun control ordinances in response to gun violence in their towns.
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In the early eighties, MacKinnon and Dworkin fought for ordinances to enable suits for sex discrimination by anyone who could prove harm through pornography.
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It prohibits any local gun ordinances and allows for personal punishment of officials through fines of up to $5,000, lawsuits and removal from office.
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One by one, cities repealed those anti-discrimination ordinances, and lesbians and gay men in certain fields, like teaching, began to lose their jobs.
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"When drafting these ordinances, we have to consider how pot was used as a weapon against black people," Hummel told Vice over the phone.
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A law passed in Arizona last year threatens to withhold shared state revenue from local governments that adopt ordinances in conflict with state policy.
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Under the two proposed ordinances, e-cigarette sales would be banned both in physical and online stores, if the shipping addresses are in San Francisco.
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These laws and ordinances can also give you insight into your liability as a dog owner if your dog attacks another dog or a human.
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When it is not in session, the government can pass ordinances that have the force of law, which provides an incentive to keep MPs idle.
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"Thanks to these ordinances there is now greater transparency, predictability and legal certainty in efforts to tackle the problem of illicitly acquired assets," it said.
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Nearly 80 counties and cities have passed ordinances to ban or oppose the methods, in part because of their dissatisfaction with the State Legislature's proposals.
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In addition to similar ordinances as Sydney, Queensland's new laws will also prohibit the sale of "high alcohol content and rapid consumption drinks" after midnight.
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If you squint, this tactic looks vaguely reminiscent of Uber's consistently ruthless expansion into new cities, often with little regard for the relevant local ordinances.
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But since 2013 several Hawaiian counties have passed ordinances, now tied up in the courts, to regulate application more closely or banish hybrid operations altogether.
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Some states and municipalities have passed anti-discrimination ordinances that expressly protect LGBT people, and those laws are subject to frequent challenge by conservative Christians.
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Government regulators need to promulgate public safety ordinances to restrict in a content-neutral manner banners from non-public forums, especially highway overpasses and rooftops.
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The owner of Hillbilly Hotties, one such drive-thru coffee stand, sued over the city ordinances, claiming they violated baristas' First and 14th Amendment rights.
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Mr. Johnson has worked with many municipalities in the county on adopting model zoning ordinances, but said that a half-dozen continue to be exclusionary.
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Instead, it simply doubled down on discrimination against transgender people, leaving the ban against city-level nondiscrimination ordinances in place and adding more local restrictions.
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The case stems from two ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that make it a crime to sleep or camp in buildings, streets and other public places.
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In Texas, multiple cities have recently declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn" and adopted unenforceable ordinances that claim to outlaw abortion within city limits.
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The new constitution authorises Kim to promulgate legislative ordinances and major decrees and decisions and appoint or recall diplomatic envoys to foreign countries, KCNA said.
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Instead of fighting the ordinances city by city, it is turning to states, trying to pass laws preventing any local governments from taxing their products.
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The contract includes language prohibiting agencies from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion or natural origin as per the city's Fair Practices Ordinances.
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What they're saying: "Over the next weeks and months, a couple dozen cities are likely to move forward with similar ordinances," Liccardo told Axios Monday.
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But over the last five years, he said, he's overturned dozens of anti-gun ordinances or signs posted in parks across the state of Idaho.
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Biden also pledges to fight discrimination in housing by taking action against exclusionary zoning, or the use of zoning ordinances to prevent certain land uses.
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Mayors, city officials, governors and those in positions of power need to pass sanctuary ordinances that protect residents from unjust federal immigration laws and bigotry.
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"Every so often, these archaic ordinances pop up that nobody's read for years, and somebody finds it," said Ms. Lawrence, a former mayor of Wausau.
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It's still legal for people to camp under the highways due to the city's revised ordinances, and many of the homeless are expected to return.
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"If you use ordinances to criminalize and you do not provide alternative services, you do not provide correct engagement," Marbut said in the NextCity interview.
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Within a week, the national police had arrested 7,000 people — Mr. Panis among them — for loitering, public drinking and other alleged violations of neighborhood ordinances.
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In Texas, for example, SB 6 and HB 1362 prevent local jurisdictions from passing ordinances related to restroom use just like HB 2, and then some.
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"The central government firmly supports the Hong Kong SAR government in advancing the amendment to the two ordinances," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Wednesday.
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"The city looks forward to enforcing its ordinances consistent with the Court's decision and in the best interest of the community," it said in a statement.
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His proposal would require local governments to provide 30 days notice to state lawmakers before voting on nondiscrimination ordinances, ensuring an opportunity for input, he said.
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Also on Thursday, the governments of 19 cities, including St. Louis and Minneapolis, passed ordinances to support the Standing Rock tribe in opposition of the pipeline.
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He is also the president of Sons of the Beach, a group that advocates protecting beach driving, and is suing the county over new restrictive ordinances.
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Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. James ruled the ordinances were "void and unenforceable," citing the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act in his opinion.
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Many states and some cities have ordinances restricting tattoos on minors, but not all require cosmetic artists to be certified or tattoos shops to be licensed.
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Homeowners who want to build a rental house on their property or turn their home into multiple units may be prohibited by community ordinances, she said.
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It also declares that state law supersedes all local ordinances concerning wages, employment and how people must be treated in public accommodations like theatres and restaurants.
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Once a firing range has been constructed in compliance with local noise ordinances, a municipality cannot later change the noise law to shut down the range.
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Meanwhile, the Council of State, which determines whether such bans meet French legal requirements, is reviewing the local ordinances and is expected to rule on Thursday.
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Since Hawaii's local counties were some of the first to pass ordinances to regulate chemicals companies, it will be the local activists who will rise again.
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The exact number of ordinances across the country is unknown, but Park said there are "at least in the hundreds, if not thousands" on the books.
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Some counties in those states have passed local ordinances that give their sheriff the authority to enforce or not enforce whichever gun laws they see fit.
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But Alekseev has a point when he talks about the overloaded infrastructure, the bribery, and the corruption that allow local ordinances to be overlooked or ignored.
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Religious hardliners want to implement Sharia law and have long supported increased prosecutions under the Zina and Hudood Ordinances of 1979, which criminalize adultery and fornication.
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Developers and other energy groups blame the state's cumbersome approval process — the result of a 2011 law — and reluctance to overrule local opposition and zoning ordinances.
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Abbott's order actually may preempt some local ordinances, as in Dallas County, that had barred in-person religious services, as The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.
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In those red states, Republican legislators have typically argued for invalidating local ordinances on the grounds that "there needs to be uniform statewide rules," Briffault says.
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Philip D. Murphy's campaign and had always preferred the behind-the-scenes machinations of a campaign, found she was enthralled by the minutiae of city ordinances.
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ProPublica and The Kansas City Star recently detailed Mr. Kobach's 13-year history of pitching his consulting services to small towns, helping them enact such ordinances.
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Ten towns in Texas have voted to declare themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn," with most adopting ordinances that claim to outlaw abortion within city limits.
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Get ready to learn about pig mange, for example, and the need to follow local building ordinances lest your would-be alpaca farm violate the law.
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The park's zoning ordinances and regulations have been amended, and next year, the foundation will break ground on a $1.13 billion mixed-use development, Hub RTP.
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That was news to Brian Hofer, a lawyer and privacy activist who helped draft the SF ban and similar ordinances passed in nearby Berkeley and Oakland.
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In recent years, city lawmakers have considered adopting ordinances that would essentially prohibit panhandling and further regulate groups that feed the homeless, but both measures failed.
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Only in 1978 did leaders of the church open the priesthood to black people, and admit black people to the supremely sacred religious rituals known as ordinances.
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It bars the 2400 Californian cities that have them from introducing rent control in buildings constructed after 2000, and freezes previous municipal rent-control ordinances in place.
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First, the organization has filed lawsuits against cities that have passed ordinances, including Sedona and Jerome in Arizona, as well as Chicago, Seattle, and California's Pacific Grove.
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Unlike The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' meeting houses, temples are only used for special ordinances such as marriage and baptism of deceased ancestors.
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The culture in either of these different communities is reflective of the residents, who elect officials that will pass the laws and ordinances that shape those communities.
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Everyone uses music to drown out background noise — whether because of a crying baby on a plane, loud chewing in the library, or neighbors disrespecting noise ordinances.
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For example, at the urging of Google Fiber, there is a growing movement among several city governments to ignore federal law by enacting local pole attachment ordinances.
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Cities could use zoning ordinances to address concerns about the effects on residential neighborhoods by confining brothels, like strip clubs, to industrial areas and limiting their size.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump weighed in on the hotly contested debate over plastic straws being replaced with paper ones through local ordinances or changes in business practices.
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Speaking of politics, in the present, not everyone is happy with the local ordinances Kai has been passing as the new decision maker on the city council.
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It's unclear where Cyrus took the photos, but the trees are protected in national parks and under California state law and several other city and county ordinances.
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Currently, these groups are subject to a convoluted patchwork of state laws, municipal ordinances and judicial interpretations, making it difficult to determine the scope of their obligations.
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This protection has helped victims of domestic violence to retain housing when nuisance ordinances threaten to evict them for making calls to law enforcement to report abuse.
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As a representative of the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Kobach had authored similar ordinances in other small towns in Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Texas.
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" The bill "bars transgender people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity and prohibits cities from passing antidiscrimination ordinances that protect gay and transgender people.
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Municipal leaders facing tight budgets are looking for alternative funding, but builders say the new ordinances are an "art tax" that increase the cost of a project.
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"They are following local ordinances and/or made business decisions to do so," John Vincent, president of the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association, told the Times.
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Ordinances serve as moral guidelines, but it is only in Quezon City, where the call center company was located, that the ordinance carries the force of law.
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These are the majority-black and -brown localities deprived by majority white state legislatures of the authority to enact local ordinances raising the wages of its residents.
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Adding further to the confusion are local ordinances that do specifically make vaping in public a crime, punishable with a jail term, cash fine, or community service.
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Afterward, Tsou introduced Romer, who talked about her experience working on ordinances in California and explained the difference between banning bags and charging a fee for them.
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Industry groups have also sued communities on various and miscellaneous grounds, and the threat of lawsuits has kept some places from going forward with anti-bag ordinances.
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The groups also want local government officials to pass new surveillance oversight ordinances that will ensure police departments can't enter into any such partnerships in the future.
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Counties in the area, such as Monterey and Santa Cruz, included in the approved BLM plan, have passed local ordinances to ban new oil and gas wells.
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Airlines, for example, have sued over similar ordinances in other jurisdictions contending that paid sick leave rules — which can vary greatly — put an undue burden on them.
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While the replacement bill bars local governments from passing their own ordinances on the topic until 2020, it left regulation of bathrooms up to the State Legislature.
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They set out to convince regulators to tax iQOS at a lower rate than cigarettes and exempt it from ordinances that ban smoking in public places and restaurants.
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"These ordinances shift power from law enforcement to the people and ensure democratic debate and oversight," said Mana Azarmi, policy council for the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Pat McCrory called a special session Wednesday, but the deal fell apart when the GOP added a six-month moratorium on cities passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people.
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Various city ordinances have perhaps since altered those numbers, but for a time, Parisian dogs freely deposited 16 metric tons of crottes de chien annually onto the streets.
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Hong Kong's government wants to remedy that by changing local ordinances to allow extraditions but only on the final authority of the chief executive, the city's top official.
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It includes updated ordinances, like a requirement for "100 feet of defensible space," meaning foliage must be far enough apart to no longer be considered a fire hazard.
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The goal is to get as many of these ordinances passed as possible, and to increase opportunities for police surveillance transparency addressed on the state and federal level.
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The organization sued the city of Nashville over its home-sharing ordinances and notched a narrow legal victory when a judge ruled the city's ordinance was overly vague.
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We've found that in all areas where ordinances are combined with enforcement, wildlife populations are visibly reduced and the more varied diet improves the health of individual animals.
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"We are not going to stop until we change a culture of violence to a culture of peace," he said at the signing of the city's gun ordinances.
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The prime minister can pass ordinances, similar to a US executive order, with the approval of the president, said Shailesh Kumar, a senior analyst with the Eurasia Group.
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Having municipalities pass ordinances which are nakedly intended to circumvent those laws and abridge private property rights in the name of promoting "competition" achieves none of these goals.
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Their relationship has only devolved since Cooper won the governor's office amid lawsuits and a high-profile spat over the controversial 2016 law, HB2, superseding local nondiscrimination ordinances.
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He said he doesn't think there are any local ordinances against flying the blimp, but they will check with officials to make sure they don't break any rules.
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Unlike the ordinances in San Francisco and Oakland, the New York City bill requires only that the police disclose basic information about the technology that is being deployed.
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In Sonoma County, hearings on cannabis ordinances at the board of supervisors overflow with representatives from the cannabis industry, who wear green, and angry residents, who wear red.
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It includes all federal and state laws as well as 32 localities with separate ordinances whose geography we can identify in the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group.
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This analysis uses data on local minimum wage ordinances from the U.C. Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education as well as from Kavya Vaghul and Ben Zipperer.
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And Abbott has opposed local paid sick leave ordinances, which could encourage sick people to stay home and keep from spreading the virus, saying they hamper business growth.
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Then, just days before the raise was to take effect, the state legislature rushed through a bill nullifying the authority of cities to adopt any local wage ordinances.
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There already are ordinances restricting mainland Chinese from migrating to Hong Kong, and there are laws prohibiting nonpermanent residents from owning certain critical businesses, such as TV broadcasting.
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Speeds limits were around long before cars; city ordinances against driving a horse-drawn carriage at a gallop go back at least as far as the 17th century.
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Cities will still have to pass their own ordinances governing marijuana lounges after the state legislature killed a measure that would have legalized them earlier this year. Gov.
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More than 40 municipalities in Michigan now have nondiscrimination ordinances on the books, many of them in deeply red counties, including the small rural community where Locke lives.
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People regularly ride without helmets (often in violation of local ordinances or state laws), zip through traffic or along sidewalks indiscriminately, and sometimes ride two-to-a-scooter.
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The plaintiffs said that the two Christian-based shelters have policies to never turn away anyone for lack of space, and so police have continuously enforced the ordinances.
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In the U.S., a spate of cities have rolled out ordinances to limit Airbnbs to certain parts of the city and restrict home-sharing to one per owner.
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Acquiring land is only one way to discourage development in floodplains, Johnson said, pointing to far cheaper methods such as zoning ordinances put in place by local municipalities.
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We need to make federal housing and transportation funds contingent on remedying these zoning ordinances and coordinate with state and local officials and leaders to ensure equitable zoning.
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City ordinances on light access and fire regulations for such narrow buildings mean spite houses can't be built as easily today, and those that survive face preservation issues.
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Related: The Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Could Outweigh Fish by 2050 Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC have all passed similar ordinances in recent years.
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Temples are also where Mormons hold weddings, as well as ordinances such as baptisms for the dead, which are meant as a way of offering salvation to deceased ancestors.
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Judge Joseph M. James of Allegheny County decided Tuesday that the three city ordinances were not legal because state laws on gun regulation take precedence over the local laws.
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The law mimics similar city- and state-wide ordinances across the country that phase in minimum wage increases up to $15 an hour, including in New York and California.
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Arguably, it set the tone for modern planning and zoning ordinances here in the U.S. Even back then, Mr. Locke knew that piss-poor planning promotes piss-poor performance.
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The city is shutting down the Russell Industrial Center, a decades-old mainstay of the Detroit art scene, due to violations of local ordinances and safety and building codes.
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Masters, however, proposes a solution to this dismal problem: He says our lawmakers should enact local ordinances mandating that customers be allowed to order partial portions at partial prices.
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As major metropolises from New York City to San Francisco have pushed for home-sharing regulations ranging from licensing ordinances to effective bans, Goldwater has taken the opposing side.
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Colorado's progressive pot laws do not currently restrict or permit public marijuana use, so local ordinances have tried to fill the gap, resulting in a patchwork quilt of rules.
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It was one of those ordinances (a law passed by a municipal government) that prompted North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature to pass House Bill 2 in the first place.
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Pat McCrory in March but is still commonly referred to as House Bill 2, nullified local government ordinances establishing anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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The origins of direct democracy in the United States date from the 214s, when New England colonists debated and voted on ordinances and other issues during town hall meetings.
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And, a report published out of University of Southern California last week shows that cities with rent stabilization ordinances for existing units have seen no decline in new construction.
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Some cities have ordinances that mandate what time of day drones can be flown and whether they can operate near certain areas such as schools, stadiums or public parks.
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Paul LePage (R) is proposing a bill to restrict local pesticide ordinances, which closely follows model legislation written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Portland Press Herald reports.
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Citywide height ordinances, in place from 1905 until 1957, were enacted to prevent Los Angeles from becoming a carbon copy of skyscraper-laden cities like New York and Chicago.
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HB2 prevented local governments from passing ordinances that prohibited discrimination in public places based on sexual orientation and gender identity, nullifying the Charlotte measure and any others like it.
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Other U.S. towns like Malibu, Davis and San Luis Obispo in California, as well as Miami Beach and Fort Myers in Florida have passed similar ordinances banning plastic straws.
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The N.C.A.A. announced last month that it would move the games out of North Carolina because of a state law that nullified local government ordinances establishing anti-discrimination protections.
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Amid local debates over waterfront development and zoning ordinances, Mr. Sanders had forged a "sister city" relationship between Burlington and Puerto Cabezas, a remote town on the Nicaraguan coast.
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The beverage companies have borrowed a tactic from the tobacco industry, which used state pre-emption laws in the 1980s to ban cigarette taxes and other municipal antismoking ordinances.
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The House bill would prevent school districts and county or local governments from adopting or enforcing nondiscrimination ordinances that would allow transgender people to use bathrooms of their choice.
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While democracy and the Senate has been restored, it doesn't seem like all of the laws and ordinances have rolled out to every corner of the Outer Rim yet.
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Sanctuary policies — ordinances and initiatives that block the sharing of information and cooperation between state and local officials and federal immigration enforcement — are a clear violation of federal law.
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In local areas and states that have implemented ordinances similar to the ERA, women and girls have had their opportunities, their privacy, and even their physical safety severely compromised.
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But the new law passed in its stead has drawn widespread criticism from gay, lesbian and transgender groups because it prevents cities from passing non-discrimination ordinances until 2020.
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"The Township of Mahwah's singular interest here is that the zoning and property-use ordinances we have in place are complied with by everyone," he wrote in an email.
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Both supporters and critics of Georgia's religious freedom bill have, at different times, argued that it would allow businesses to bypass local nondiscrimination ordinances and discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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US District Court Judge Marsha Pechman initially ruled in late 2017 in the coffee chain's favor, saying the city ordinances were too vague and arbitrary, according to CNN affiliate KOMO.
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Austin's ordinances call for every person who owns property along either street to be notified, and if anyone objects, the council must hold a public hearing on the proposed change.
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The mayor also encouraged the city council to call an emergency meeting on Tuesday January 17 to approve amendments to city ordinances that would help enable implementation of the order.
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During the summer, at the height of the mobile ARG's popularity, local law enforcement officers distributed hundreds of citations to players for violating ordinances against littering and park opening hours.
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To burnish downtown Reno's reputation, the city council is considering several new ordinances, one of which would ban people from lying or sleeping on private or public property without permission.
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Barnett is not in law enforcement, but he's licensed to dispose of unexploded ordinances and has been working with explosive materials since he was a child out in West Texas.
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San Francisco city ordinances prohibit its police from providing advance notice of an inmate's release from jail, NBC added, even if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to detain them.
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"These ordinances cause confusion and intimidation because it's hard for many people to tell what laws are in effect," said Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas.
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Yet for those who believe that Muslims have suffered because they failed to keep God's ordinances, the only response is to return to the religious purity of the early caliphs.
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If signed into law, the proposals would decriminalize possession or manufacturing up to 25 grams of marijuana and would prevent local ordinances from creating their own standards on the drug.
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They will assist in identification, review, analysis, compilation, and dissemination of information about bills, statutes, regulations, local ordinances, judicial actions, and pending proposals that impact the practice of veterinary medicine.
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One response is that scheduling ordinances are becoming law in several cities, from New York City to Seattle, and now, the whole state of Oregon, and is proposed in Chicago.
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Many of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County have historical preservation ordinances, but their effectiveness varies, and much of the construction is proposed for open lots and strip malls.
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John Donohue, professor of law at Stanford, said the NRA has suffered setbacks in some states such as Florida with new gun-control bills as well as some local ordinances.
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The Kentucky counties adapted their ordinances from a model bill developed by the American City County Exchange, an offshoot of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential conservative policy group.
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Not only do they vary from state to state, but the definitions vary, the restrictiveness varies, and localities may have ordinances that are even more restrictive than a state's regulations.
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Ball was met with protests from local church members, and she says that city officials even tried to shut her down but couldn't because she didn't violate any zoning ordinances.
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The signs "violate the spirit of our local ordinances meant to protect the rural character of the town" and keep the area an attractive escape for New Yorkers, he said.
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Its City Council has six members who handle the kinds of issues that most similar bodies face, such as passing ordinances, fixing roads and determining how city funds are allocated.
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In India, the government can pass temporary ordinances with the full force of laws through the Union Council of Ministers and India's president, if Parliament is sitting on a bill.
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More than 230 cities, towns and counties across the country have passed ordinances to prevent the sale of cruelly bred animals at pet stores, including 36 local jurisdictions in California.
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And if they study the matter closely, they are likely to find that local anti-discrimination ordinances have made cities more attractive to businesses and a broad pool of talent.
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It is a city of 335,000, in the heart of Orange County, whose City Council has passed one of the boldest and most far-reaching sanctuary ordinances in the state.
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High-capacity magazine bans have also been challenged as ineffective, as many ordinances apply to the manufacture of weapons, but not to the possession or sale of the same devices.
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I first caught on to the cold weather cold brew in Boston, where we flaunted our giant double-cupped Dunkin' iced coffees as long as anti-styrofoam ordinances would allow.
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Similarly, businesses could potentially get around local ordinances that ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination — like the law in St. Louis County — by citing religious beliefs protected by the proposed constitutional amendment.
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North Carolina's deeply divisive public accommodation law, known as H.B. 2 and which restricts transgender people's access to public restrooms and blocks local antidiscrimination ordinances, has drawn widespread criticism from businesses.
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The point isn't that environmental rules or inclusionary zoning ordinances are bad, but that's it's inherently difficult to tell the difference between a good-faith and a bad-faith regulatory scheme.
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The New York Times reports several other states, including New York, are working on similar laws and that numerous cities across the country have put their own local ordinances into effect.
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The statewide policy bans individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex and prohibits cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect gay and transgender identity.
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Bergthold has made a name for himself crafting local zoning ordinances designed specifically to avoid the sort of First Amendment obstacles the industry has used to protect itself in the past.
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Among other things, that obliged transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate, and prevented municipalities from instituting anti-discrimination ordinances that included sexuality.
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If you're trying to work to loosen marijuana laws in your state, is it easier to replace an anti-weed governor or pass weed ordinances and hope the governor comes around?
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We also took into account cultural and diversity factors, including local anti-discrimination ordinances, and how it ranks on lists of emerging tech hubs due to the talent those cities attract.
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The city has acknowledged that the dealer parking cars on the city property is illegal, as there are ordinances in place which prohibit the use of public property for private gain.
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Gay rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of the couple, hailed the ruling as a win for nondiscrimination ordinances that have passed in 19 states.
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Fights are raging over gay rights here and in North Carolina, where a new law limits transgender bathroom access and pre-empts local governments from passing their own anti-discrimination ordinances.
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Unfortunately, Democratic governors this year replaced the Republicans in place in Illinois and New Mexico, and now will work with Democrats in their legislatures to overturn local right-to-work ordinances.
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Blocks on 43G deployments are nothing new for Marin County, where other cities including San Anselmo and Ross have passed similar ordinances designed to thwart 5G expansion efforts over health concerns.
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The effort in December failed because Democrats rejected a six-month moratorium to prevent local municipalities from passing nondiscrimination ordinances (far better than the three-year moratorium they accepted with HB22).
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Presumably, that means that with a bribe to the right people, licenses can be obtained, shabby construction overlooked, and city ordinances ignored, with not much capital trickling down to ordinary citizens.
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"If the amount is not timely paid, the Department of Law may prosecute you for making a false statement to the city" under city ordinances, Siskel warned Smollett in the letter.
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Starting around 2007, Mr. Kobach represented the city of Hazleton, Pa., in a lawsuit challenging city ordinances that punished landlords who rented to undocumented immigrants and employers who gave them jobs.
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They have been on opposite sides of minimum and prevailing wage ordinances, and disagreed on a measure to support the state of Washington in its challenge of President Trump's travel ban.
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The agreement nullified all local nondiscrimination ordinances in the state until December 31, 2020, and after that, cities like Asheville and Durham will be free to reinstate their LGBTQ inclusive laws.
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To bolster the 1968 Fair Housing Act, we need a new "economic fair housing act" to prohibit or discourage local ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire neighborhoods and their schools.
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Much of the rest of the budget for this program is also wasted, often paying farms to use specific types of operations to comply with local ordinances already on the books.
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But the replacement kept a portion of the bill, which prevents local jurisdictions from passing nondiscrimination ordinances protecting LGBTQ people, such as the one in Charlotte that triggered HB2, until 2020.
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San Francisco has been a sanctuary city since 1989, when the city began to enact ordinances in response to the influx of Central American refugees fleeing civil wars, according to the lawsuit.
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The Trump administration has harshly criticized California's law and similar sanctuary ordinances adopted by local governments across the country, saying they threaten public safety by protecting criminals who should to be deported.
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Insurance policies only cover the cost of rebuilding a burned-down home; they don't cover upgrades to meet relatively new fire ordinances, like the use of non-combustible roofs and other materials.
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What's next: Local zoning and planning boards will typically hear concerns and develop ordinances to establish rules for site acquisition and construction, though it's unlikely they'll be able to satisfy all parties.
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And, you know what, he wants to hear what we are doing -- actually, nine counties and more than 20183 cities passed ordinances or resolutions that we are going after this bad ball.
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Forty-one officers were killed during a self-initiated activity, or during actions such as "conducting traffic stops for speeding, engaging in enforcement of ordinances, or investigating suspicious activity," the report said.
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The Chicago ordinance (and other similar ordinances) has an exception for "applicable federal law" — a clause local officials point to to argue they're fully in compliance with the federal information-sharing law.
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Since the city-level anti-abortion ordinances first took off outside of Texas, it's possible more will take root in other states, particularly as conservative state lawmakers continue to pass extreme legislation.
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"While proponents of nuisance ordinances argue they are necessary to deter crime, in practice they undermine public safety and punish innocent people - especially vulnerable people who have fewer resources," the ACLU says.
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Firearms advocates, including the National Rifle Association, contend the law is necessary to prevent gun owners from becoming ensnared by a patchwork of municipal ordinances that violate their right to bear arms.
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The senator, whose name Straus would not disclose, was a lawyer, and told Straus that the language had been carefully crafted to insure that the bill would override any local antidiscrimination ordinances.
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"I don't think they understand that they have to pay a fine," said Zachary Parris, the chief deputy prosecutor, whose office held a seminar on campus to educate students on city ordinances.
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Evans, the court ruled that Colorado could not amend its state Constitution to block cities and counties from passing ordinances that throw up a legal shield on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Similar ordinances have passed in nine other cities, and in Santa Clara County, CA. Next month, Oakland, California will vote on an ordinance that could enact a similar facial recognition technology ban.
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North Carolina's law, known as House Bill 20163, prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people, and bars transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
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However, Arnold Kriss, Dr. Timperio's lawyer, said he believes the gun store had an obligation to do so under general gun laws that require weapons be sold safely, according to local ordinances.
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This included challenging local ordinances that require a landlord to evict all members of a household — perpetrators as well as victims — if the police have been called repeatedly to settle domestic disputes.
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Some Democratic senators propose repealing HB2 after a six-month "cooling off period" during which cities like Charlotte would be barred from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, but others advocate for a hard repeal.
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South Carolina has a law preventing cities from passing ordinances that conflict with the state legislature, and passing a city ordinance banning bump stocks could be a violation of that set-up.
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Additionally, the ordinances give the family members of someone who has received an abortion the right to sue the abortion provider -- something that Dickson said local courts will be able to enforce.
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A recent study found that more than 442 Shariah-based ordinances have been passed throughout the nation since 1999, when Jakarta gave provinces and districts substantial powers to make their own laws.
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In the temple, church members worship God and Jesus Christ by participating in ordinances (religious ceremonies) where we learn more about God's plan for us and make covenants (sacred promises) with God.
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In 18th century New York, for example, the fear of armed insurrection by enslaved people led to a series of ordinances strictly regulating the movement of blacks and Indians within the city.
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Florida law also overrides local ordinances in other areas, such as the environment, but the gun rules are the only ones that allow sanctions against local officials personally, according to one mayor.
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This applies not just to paid sick leave policies, but also to issues ranging from private property rights (such as tree-cutting ordinances) to energy policy (such as bans on hydraulic fracturing).
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Dalton Johnson co-founded the Alabama Women's Center in 2001, and since then, the center has had to adapt and sue over multiple new laws and ordinances designed to shut its doors.
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When the unhoused are arrested for panhandling, sleeping in public, or any other violation of the city's "quality of life" ordinances, they are taken to Gateway's next-door neighbor, the Atlanta Detention Center.
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Rigorously enforcing local ordinances on the vegetation heights and setbacks from buildings and rapid reporting to the local utility when power lines are close to vegetation can significantly reduce the risk of wildfires.
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Many UVM students of that era will recall the enforcement of new city noise ordinances, which turned weekend house parties into more expensive affairs as Burlington police doled out hefty fines with abandon.
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The law, approved by the Republican-led legislature in a one-day special session, also blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances that include protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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State law and city ordinances prohibit anyone older than 16 from wearing masks that conceal their identity when on streets, walkways or private property, unless it is a holiday or theatrical production costume.
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In September 2016, the Department of Housing and Urban Development called on local governments to repeal nuisance ordinances that "create disparities in access to emergency services" or risk violating the Fair Housing Act.
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We have only one next-door neighbor, and her property, hidden by oak trees and brush, has been scrupulously disilluminated in compliance with the dark-skies ordinances for which Flagstaff is so famous.
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Equality Federation and the Human Rights Campaign also helped Reuters develop a list of cities adopting such ordinances since 2015, though the advocacy groups acknowledged some smaller localities may have been inadvertently omitted.
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Thirty communities in Maine have restricted pesticide use within their borders, while across the country at least 155 local ordinances regulate the use of pesticides in parks and playgrounds, according to Beyond Pesticides.
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Ethan Strimling is mayor of Portland, Maine and Linda C. Cohen is mayor of South Portland, Maine, whose cities have passed landmark ordinances that prohibit toxic pesticides in land management in their communities.
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An essay I wrote about it led to extensive dialogue locally, which in turn led to a clarification of Connecticut law about the limits on police crossing town lines to enforce municipal ordinances.
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And though the companies face virtually no federal security regulations, they are hugely regulated at the state and local levels, building machines that have to comply with local ordinances that can vary widely.
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New York, which both dealt with citywide censorship ordinances and the marketing of content deemed obscene — prompted the film industry to take some action in the waning days of the self-censoring code.
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These ordinances place the choice of prosecution wholly in the hands of the victim's family rather than the government, letting go of the idea of premeditated murder as a "crime against the state".
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The makeup of your City Council can also matter a great deal — decisions about zoning and even noise ordinances can make the difference between a clinic staying open or being forced to close.
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"I think if its come to the stage when all the other ordinances I have mentioned have failed to work, then I suppose the chief executive may have to consider it," she said.
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In a statement, Paramount revealed that the production shift came out of "an abundance of caution," though it's not clear whether there was much of a choice given the government ordinances in Venice.
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But as of Thursday, April 3, 2019, these ordinances, known as the Hudood laws, which implement stoning for adultery, make theft punishable by amputation and homosexuality punishable by death, are now in effect.
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Hard-line Islamist groups have called on Mr. Joko not to interfere in the province's affairs, and the new governor is under fire at home for consulting with Jakarta on local Shariah ordinances.
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Bernie will: Use federal pre-emption laws to ensure new units built with the $1.48 trillion investment in the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund are not segregated or excluded by local zoning ordinances.
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To them, Mr. Schiller in effect had created a shelter of his own and blatantly flouted various ordinances, for instance by not having enough exits from the basement in case of a fire.
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HB 13623 not only forbids transgender people from using restrooms they identify with in government facilities; it also prevents local governments from passing non-discrimination ordinances like the one in Charlotte that inspired it.
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It would forbid Texas cities and counties from establishing a transgender-friendly standard for private businesses—effectively negating ordinances passed in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and other cities that shield transgender people from discrimination.
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The ordinances would have banned assault weapons, banned large-capacity magazines and allowed courts to stop people from owning guns if they were a threat to themselves or others, The New York Times reported.
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The cities of Los Angeles and Chicago both have local minimum wage ordinances going into effect July 1 that will increase the mandated hourly wage 13 percent to $10.50 per hour from $10 previously.
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But a week later -- driven by businesses' concerns over discrimination -- the law was amended so that it could not be used to override current and future civil rights protections, including local anti-discrimination ordinances.
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Geography and zoning ordinances prevent millions from migrating to these hubs, and for those lucky few who can make a living, high housing prices and other costs can place incredible stress on young families.
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The other provision, which has riled some Democrats and transgender advocates, places a moratorium on local jurisdictions from passing nondiscrimination ordinances protecting LGBTQ residents — like the one in Charlotte that prompted HB2 — until 2020.
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But some Democrats and LGBT rights groups have assailed the compromise as a repeal in name only, noting that it is not a full repeal and blocks governments from enacting similar ordinances until 2020.
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Advocates pitch the ordinances as targeted solutions that take account of the higher cost of living in urban areas and provide a natural laboratory demonstrating the feasibility and economic benefits of minimum-wage increases.
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Local officials in Virginia are checking whether county ordinances have been violated after trees and shrubs, reportedly from the Trump National Golf Course, were found in the Potomac River, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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If you were fired for being gay, you would have had absolutely no legal remedies available to you, unless you lived in a handful of very liberal municipalities that had enacted anti-discrimination ordinances.
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"These illegal ordinances would have affected all working people, union and non-union, by decreasing wages, lowering median household incomes, increasing poverty and undermining workplace safety," said Kentucky State AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan.
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But the law passed by the legislature on Wednesday night, which prohibits municipalities from passing their own ordinances allowing such bathroom use, also prevents cities from protecting gays and bisexual people against discrimination generally.
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The ACLU also analyzed ordinances in two upstate New York cities and discovered that domestic violence accounted for 38 percent to 48 percent of nuisance enforcement warnings or actions, according to a 2015 report.
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If neighbors are worried about code violations from short-term rentals such as parking and noise, most cities have plenty of ordinances to address such concerns, but there appear to be few actual problems.
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The group has been taking residents to City Council meetings, where they speak out against new local ordinances — like a requirement that motel rooms have small kitchens — that they fear will push rents higher.
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"It is deeply disingenuous to suggest that the need to pre-empt urban areas' ordinances is so we can bring broadband to rural areas," said Mitsuko R. Herrera, the county's technology special projects director.
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There, the City Council's public safety committee was expected to debate one of his sanctuary ordinances, which would prohibit the city from contracting with tech companies that do business or share data with ICE.
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But the abortion rights groups argue that the towns' ordinances violate their constitutional right to free expression, hinders them from doing their work and judges them as criminals without ever affording them a trial.
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Pat McCrory (R) signed a bill in March aimed at preventing cities and counties from enacting their own anti-discrimination ordinances and mandates that transgender residents use public restrooms corresponding to their biological sex.
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France vowed to protect its population from pesticides, but dozens of mayors who say the country is not doing enough are taking matters into their own hands and using local ordinances to ban them.
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"These ordinances cause confusion and intimidation because it's hard for many people to tell what laws are in effect," Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, told VICE at the time.
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For people living in their cars — which, the report notes, can include families with children — such anti-homeless ordinances can result in steep fines, jail time, the towing of one's vehicle, or license suspension.
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The law, passed in a rush session by the state's legislature, strikes down local nondiscrimination ordinances and, most notably, requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificate.
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Explained: As of March 643, 19 states, the District of Columbia and more than 200 municipalities have anti-discrimination laws and ordinances allowing transgender people to use public facilities that correspond to their gender identity.
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Nearly, two dozen Southern California communities have now passed ordinances, and in some cases, filed lawsuits, against the state&aposs immigration law that largely prohibit local and state authorities from cooperating with federal immigration officers.
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House Bill 142 continues to prohibit cities in North Carolina from creating their own ordinances protecting LGBT people from discrimination until December 2020, and that was not affected by the agreement, according to the ACLU.
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"If you're going to operate them, you need to operate them in a safe manner away from individuals and make sure you're in compliance with whatever local ordinances are out there," Bettendorf Police Department Cpt.
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Taking a close look at communities' zoning ordinances, then, is in fact an important strategy for expanding housing choices and creating more equitable access to opportunity, and one that HUD's suspended fair housing rule encompasses.
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The legislation was passed in an effort to prevent cities and counties from passing their own nondiscrimination ordinances after Charlotte approved an ordinance allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that corresponded with their sexual identity.
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Benazir Bhutto was the great feminist hope when she succeeded Zia but failed to overturn his Hudood ordinances, which, for example, required women to produce four witnesses to prove rape to avoid charges of adultery.
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By this time, sheriff supremacy had cross-pollinated with other kinds of right-wing thought, resulting, for example, in the county-supremacy movement, in which dozens of counties adopted ordinances claiming control over federal land.
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For instance, it was the Lancaster County Lead Coalition that brought the City Council's attention to the horrors of lead poisoning in impoverished neighborhood rental properties, which led to a new set of safety ordinances.
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Mike Journee, a spokesman for the City of Boise, said Wednesday that the city was still reviewing the Ninth Circuit's ruling and that it was "not ready to address" how its ordinances would be affected.
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Though the city is diversifying, civil rights leaders have criticized structural barriers — from zoning ordinances to the school district breaking away from the county — that they say have kept the suburban enclave 72 percent white.
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And with HB2 proposed and signed into law within 24 hours, North Carolina Republicans struck down all local LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances in the state and imposed anti-trans rules in school and government building bathrooms.
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When developers across the country seek to build affordable apartments in more integrated, higher opportunity neighborhoods, they are often stymied by exclusionary zoning ordinances or local officials who bend to racially motivated opposition from neighbors.
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But in the event that the Supreme Court does reverse its opinion on abortion rights, the ordinances will be in place to penalize those who performed abortions, or otherwise "aided and abetted" in the procedures.
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But one day last month, city officials, citing strong winds and sign ordinances, ordered the banners to be taken down, much to the chagrin of residents like Frank Mendez, an 80-year-old retired laborer.
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The Prince's grandmother had been a close friend of Marie Antoinette; his father was Minister of State in Charles X's government and the author of the July Ordinances, whose absolutism set off the 1830 Revolution.
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But the thumping heart of Italian culture and business nevertheless seemed upside down this week as a mix of precautionary public ordinances, mass tourist cancellations and old-fashioned fear made Italy's liveliest city feel dead.
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In 2009, after a local shelter closed, Mr. Belodoff filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of six homeless men and women who had been cited for violating city ordinances that prohibit sleeping on public property.
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Officials in Chester, N.Y., according to a lawsuit filed against it, have passed ordinances, denied building permits and imposed costly requirements on the developer in a concerted effort to slow or even stop the project.
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But in March 2016, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a law, known as House Bill 2 or HB2, that invalidated local government ordinances establishing anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Her work was inspired by the "Burkini bans" — the relatively new ordinances in about 15 French towns that forbid beachgoers from wearing the full-bodied swimsuits (essentially, wetsuits with hoods) that some Muslim women choose.
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But it's important to know that in the 18 states (and more than 200 cities) that have laws and ordinances protecting transgender people from discrimination, there have been no increases in public safety incidents. None. Why?
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In Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, meanwhile, cities can no longer pass LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances — so a couple can get married, but it's not explicitly illegal for them to be fired for their same-sex marriage.
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According to the City of Chesapeake code of ordinances, anyone over the age of 14 who engages in trick or treating is guilty of a Class 123 misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $250.
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Arizona's pre-emption law and legal action by Goldwater prevented the city from enforcing even ordinances requiring hosts to register, but Pickels says the worst predictions about home-sharing in the city haven't come to fruition.
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France's supreme administrative court, the Council of State, has struck down the new wave of local ordinances that sought to ban the "burkini," the wetsuit outfit worn by some Muslim women to go to the beach.
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The boy was placed under arrest in connection with the damage to the memorial and additionally issued citations for violating city ordinances by carrying a prohibited knife and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
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Rebecca Parma, a legislative associate at Texas Right to Life, said the organization is encouraging city councils across the state to pursue anti-abortion ordinances as a method of discouraging residents from seeking out the procedure.
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Here in New Jersey, our state is engaged in a vigorous debate over the merits of legalizing recreational marijuana, with dozens of towns and cities passing ordinances to ban the sale of marijuana in their municipalities.
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Maplewood, Missouri's housing ordinances—which allow the police not only to label people "nuisances" but to ban them from living anywhere within the city limits for up to six months—are disproportionately invoked against African Americans.
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Failed and dangerous policies like amnesty iIllegal immigrants and sanctuary city ordinances and laws are the foundation of a liberal ideal that puts the interest of non-citzitens ahead of the citizens that elected these politicians.
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) ordinances make arguably mutable characteristics like sexual orientation and gender identity legally akin to race by setting the terms "sexual orientation and gender identity" alongside other protected classes like race.
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Their goal: To find out how capable these offices might be of collecting data about police officers, and what obstacles they might face, such as state laws, local ordinances and, often most acutely, police union contracts.
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That their use, and the anxiety about gambling and idleness encouraged by these "picture books of the devil," had already resulted in anti-gaming ordinances demonstrates how quickly the cards gained popularity in the Middle Ages.
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On Monday evening, the usually bustling and trendy Chinatown section of the city, where business had already declined over virus fears, was nearly deserted, as local ordinances required cafes and bars to close at 6 p.m.
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He is, essentially, the heart of the story, which encompasses a strange assortment of peculiar characters, including one who converted his strip club into what he called a church in order to skirt local zoning ordinances.
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"It is no coincidence that three of the nation's most expensive places to live, including San Francisco, New York and D.C., continue to grapple with housing affordability despite their long-standing rent control ordinances," he continued.
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A bill repealing House Bill 2, which the legislature will consider on Thursday, would also create a moratorium on local nondiscrimination ordinances through 2020 and leave regulation of "multi-occupancy facilities," or bathrooms, to state lawmakers.
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Gary's ordinance is not only in violation of federal law but, pertinent to this case, is also in contempt of the State of Indiana's chapter 18.2 provision, which specifically bans sanctuary city or welcoming city ordinances.
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Following the dance music explosion in Paris in the late 90s, by 2009, the nightlife scene in the city was nearing a seemingly inevitable demise, partly due to a government crackdown on venues and widespread sound ordinances.
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Despite this and other efforts to persuade them, St Louisians voted overwhelmingly in favour of two ordinances that would prevent anyone buying a home in a neighbourhood with a population of more than 212% of another race.
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Pointing to vacant storefronts, faded motels and a Main Street that caters overwhelmingly to the bikers who visit the beaches here en masse twice a year, supporters of the ordinances said Daytona Beach was clamoring for investment.
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Since the 1970s, California state law "outlaws the harassment of animals, defined as 'an intentional act which disrupts an animal's normal behavior patterns,'" and many cities and counties also have local ordinances in place to discourage feeding.
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On the state level, transgender "bathroom bills" aren't gaining much traction since the defeat of North Carolina's HB2 — but some state legislatures are now considering bills that would prevent cities and local councils from having nondiscrimination ordinances.
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It also stripped local municipalities of the ability to enact nondiscrimination ordinances encompassing gender identity or sexual orientation, as well as the ability of municipalities to establish a minimum wage or provide workplace protections for government workers.
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The new HB 142 imposes a moratorium until 2020 that restricts localities from passing any new anti-discrimination ordinances, and leaves it up to the conservative state legislature to approve any new measures regulating access to bathrooms.
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It was unclear whether the city will be able to make Kidd get rid of the emojis, but the city planning commission will reportedly review residential mural ordinances later this month in response to the neighbors' outcries.
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Sadly, my drive was short, speed-limited, and restricted to pavement, due to the Monterey's anti-fun ordinances and the fact that this is still a concept car and not quite ready for full-on dune bashing.
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Statewide laws that repeal municipal nondiscrimination ordinances or that legalize anti-LGBT discrimination in health care can make LGBT people feel unsafe in public restrooms, in a therapist's office, or while seeking to access other basic services.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina's governor on Wednesday signed into law a measure that blocks local governments in the state from enacting ordinances to allow transgender people to use public bathrooms that match their gender identities.
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Hardin County was one of a dozen Kentucky counties to pass ordinances prohibiting union security agreements, which are provisions in collective bargaining agreements that require workers to pay money to labor unions as a condition of employment.
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At one point, he suggested that Drag Queen Story Hours could be addressed by a congressional hearing—"make the head of the Modern Library Association [sic] or whatever sweat," he said—and the passage of local ordinances.
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Some Latinos had started to move into the area, so in response, lawmakers pushed through a series of ordinances that would make English the official language of the town and banned landlords from renting to the undocumented.
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How it worked: More than 400 laws and ordinances across the country ban or tax plastic bags, according to Jennie Romer, an attorney at the Surfrider Foundation and a leading advocate and expert on plastic bag policies.
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"The construction of the wall at this point is in violation of city ordinances," Mr. Perea said, saying that a survey had not been filed and that the fencing exceeded the maximum allowed height of 6 feet.
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Since 2016, Airbnb has sued more than a half dozen US cities and other government agencies over local ordinances regulating the short-term-rental industry and holding companies liable for ensuring the rentals comply with the law.
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Such complaints are often brought by developers of suburbs encroaching on farming areas who try to change local ordinances in favor of their new communities, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks local laws.
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Nearly two dozen states have passed ISP-backed laws banning towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, and companies like AT&T have even tried burying broadband competition-eroding measures in unrelated state traffic ordinances.
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