Governed by a board of supervisors, the agency has powers typically reserved for city and county governments.
In China, it is common for companies to be owned by central, provincial, city or county governments.
At present, many police forces share their boundaries with city or county governments, which help to set crime-fighting priorities and funding levels.
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Recognizing the utter failure, the California Department of Transportation and county governments have begun allowing solo drivers into diamond lanes during restricted hours .
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China has one scheme for urban workers, another for non-workers and a third for rural folk, each administered by separate city or county governments.
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Many projects must be approved by both state and county governments.
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In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton said the weather was taxing the resources of local and county governments, and he issued an executive order activating the National Guard.
This year the central government launched a new reform that requires provincial governments to take direct responsibility for financing county governments instead of leaving the job to the tier in-between, the prefecture.
They have been caught in the embarrassing position of just recently upgrading muni bonds across the board on the premise that the federal government would not let state governments fail and that state governments would not let city and county governments fail.
The outflows reflect concerns over fiscal problems at state, county and local governments.
Partners include nonprofit organizations and local, county and state governments.
China has more than 1, 000 county-level governments and hundreds of city and municipal councils that rely on revenue from local taxes, land sales and central-government transfers because rules bar most from selling bonds.
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Proposition 19 would also allow California's county and municipal governments to decide whether to regulate and tax the commercial production and sale (of no more than an ounce, or 28g, at a time however) of marijuana.
The analysis must include a discussion of when the county would take local governments to court over zoning rules.
Municipal governments from Nassau County to Yonkers to Syracuse are teetering.
If local debt is a problem for the local governments in Cook County, Illinois, it is a problem in all counties across the country.
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Governments at provincial, county and city levels routinely block goods from other regions.
The federal government owns 70% of the land (which cannot be taxed by local governments) in the mostly forested county, where the last mill recently closed.
Meanwhile, many parties farmers in the Central Valley and governments in the Valley's Kings County and the tony liberal cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton were suing the rail authority for not adequately addressing the train's environmental impacts.
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Republican lawmakers, outspoken Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and various state governments were among those filing briefs supporting the law.
The Beijing News laments the lack of trust in local governments following earlier reports that 20, 000 residents in Pingjiang county in Hunan province have not drunk tap water for years for fear of contamination from a mine.
He says his research in Hengyang, a county of central Hunan Province, earlier this year found that, in order to balance their budgets, governments were cutting various payments to peasants.
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