Local environmental ordinances routinely prevent utilities from trimming trees that can threaten power lines during storms.
Building codes and ordinances complicate matters and can prevent residents from living in the units full-time.
Researchers studied the impact of smoke-free ordinances implemented in Pueblo, Colorado, in July 2003.
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Hong Kong recently passed two industry-specific ordinances, one for telecoms and one for broadcasting.
Evans, a 1996 decision that killed an amendment to Colorado's constitution that rolled back gay rights ordinances.
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In some cases local officials used that information to craft ordinances to regulate those sources on their own.
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If your property violates local housing codes or ordinances, you could find yourself on the hook for those violations.
Investment followed, and then local ordinances were passed to protect the buildings.
Homeowners who violate these ordinances can have their lawns planted or mowed for them ... and be billed for the work.
Under city ordinances, it's illegal to create murals on most private properties.
His crews were infamous for laying pipelines at night, without permission, and Mattei himself once boasted of having broken 8, 000 laws and ordinances.
This is why restrictions exist on what you can do near the boundaries of your property, easements to allow access and noise ordinances.
The federal government has been given four months to get parliament to endorse all 37 decrees or ordinances passed by the former general.
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And my understanding of the local ordinances is mostly through reading.
While towns in Idaho, Utah, Virginia and Pennsylvania have debated ordinances recommending gun ownership, the gun giveaway effort appears to be the first of its kind.
In one, from 1969, the justices struck down an Akron, Ohio, initiative that required the city council to obtain voter approval for housing ordinances affecting race.
More than 100 towns and communities have passed similar ordinances.
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Before the ordinances are laid before States members for final approval, the Health and Social Services Department said it wanted to make sure all affected parties had been consulted.
Ms Weir opens vividly with descriptions of the splendours of royal palaces and ceremonies, sumptuously illustrated from the Household Ordinances and accounts, records of tournaments and the dispatches of ambassadors.
"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances, " Mr Obama said.
Nowadays, with the tremendous increase and variety in Gourmet Food Trucks, and various ordinances having been passed, the locations are often planned well in advance and listed on numerous websites.
In 1992 Colorado's voters did approve an initiative overturning local ordinances protecting gays from discrimination, but more extreme anti-gay initiatives in Colorado and California have been defeated by large majorities.
Some of that is deferred maintenance, but the bulk derives from the cruel Catch-22 of occupying a historic structure: The Corcoran has been "grandfathered, " or exempted, from various ordinances and codes over the years.
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Clinton's unique contribution to that great "pro-peace" endeavor this week was her outspoken criticism on Wednesday of the Jerusalem Municipality's decision to enforce the city's building and planning ordinances equally toward both Jews and Arabs.
Two days before this year's festival, The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans held a "teach-in" regarding noise ordinances and zoning regulations, motivated by confrontations over street performances and music venues in newly gentrifying neighborhoods.
At the heart of the cases is the interpretation of a state law passed in 1981 that says regulation of the oil and gas industry rests solely with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which "supersedes" local laws and ordinances.
Shaun Goho, an environmental lawyer and instructor at Harvard Law School who is not directly involved in the Dryden and Middlefield cases, said local ordinances related to oil and gas drilling have been common for years in many states, including Texas and Colorado.
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