And the party has recently encouraged more public involvement in the drafting of some local legislation by holding open hearings.
Even continental Europeans, such as Swiss Re, are making their first forays (local legislation permitting), either because they have vision or, failing that, because they are acquiring more active shareholders.
Controversially, the congressional bill also allows for reserve areas in the Amazon to be reduced from 80% to 50%, as long as the state where the reduction is planned maintains 65% of protected areas and if local legislation permits a reduction in reserve area.
Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.
Helen Mountfield QC, for the residents, argued Brent Council had adopted "a fundamentally flawed and unlawful approach to the making of savings in its budget" and the local authority had failed to comply with equality legislation and consult the local community properly.
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At second reading Labour's John Healey, a former local government minister, described the legislation as the "most fundamental change in local government funding since the poll tax".
Following changes to government legislation, local councils have more flexibility to set council tax levels.
She said there also needed to be more clarity on the costs local councils will face when implementing legislation "as currently there appears to be a large discrepancy between Welsh government and local authority estimates".
John Healey, who served as a local government minister under Gordon Brown, described the legislation as the "most fundamental change in local government funding since the poll tax".
We need Scottish legislation that enables local authorities to take action against inconsiderate parking.
Ms Fabiani also told MSPs that the administration had no plans to use legislation to nudge local authorities into boosting cultural provision.
The Welsh government is waiting for a decision from the court about whether legislation to reform local government by-laws goes beyond the assembly's powers.
If the promised white paper does not provide for legislation to allow local authorities to charge for roads, such schemes will never come into being.
My government will introduce legislation to modernise local government in England and Wales and secure delivery of high quality local services on a sound financial footing.
Although the term Geoparks does not have a specific legal status, the important monuments and sites within a Geopark must be protected in every case, under local, regional or national legislation.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled in the Welsh government's favour when the UK government claimed a piece of legislation to reform local bylaws went beyond the assembly's powers.
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Lord Jenkin, who served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet as Patrick Jenkin, wanted to change the new legislation to give local authorities the discretion to lower the 25% Council Tax discount for single person households - but his amendment was rejected.
Labour will use an emergency question at Holyrood to ask the Scottish government if they will bring in emergency legislation to stop local councils and housing associations evicting tenants if they run up arrears as a result of housing benefit changes.
The United States is unusual in that, since the early 1970s, federal legislation has required local public school systems to provide all children who have disabilities with the sort of education that will enable them to develop their knowledge and skills to the fullest extent possible.
The vice president called on Congress to abandon property rights legislation hurting state and local efforts to protect water quality.
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"We said back in March 2012, that we were determined to provide young people in Sevenoaks with access to a local grammar school, within current legislation, " said KCC leader Paul Carter.
Local Government Minister Derek Mackay said legislation would incentivise some landlords to bring commercial properties back into use and said some rents remained stubbornly high when there was demand from potential tenants.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
The actual process of empowering the mayors at the top of the local-government tier will begin only after the elections have been completed and legislation has been decreed about the distribution of powers between local- and provincial-government officials.
The other, St Mary's Primary in Dunblane, is fighting moves under new legislation to return it to local authority control.
And the New Hampshire House rejected legislation that would have let local school districts seek voter approval for their personnel to carry guns.
It can pass legislation to take over failing local authorities, but in practice almost never does: home pride (and patronage) run deep, and race can become an issue.
Hillary herself raises a wide range of possibilities: policy recommendations that might be carried out by Executive Order or regulation (like a national registry of day-care workers who have been credibly accused of abuse), new legislation, new state and local programs, better enforcement of the laws already on the books.
Legislation freeing police to concentrate on local priorities by setting up a new National Crime Agency, to deal with (for example) organised crime and border policing, is to be brought forward soon.
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