Sentences with phrase «home rule state»

Officials in Alabama, for instance, have declined to follow the code, citing their status as a home rule state.

The NYS constitution unequivocally establishes NYS as a Home Rule state — which means that local communities are supposed to have the final say on such matters as whether or not they want power plants to be located in their community.

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While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

According to media reports, IMG will need to find a new home for the event come September, after the Supreme Court of the State of New York Count ruled Lincoln Center can not renew its contract.

Clayton, who grew up in Pennsylvania, returned to his home state to talk about why the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed Best Interest Rule is a viable option to protect investors.

Gov. Rick Scott signed bills requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have alternative power sources Monday, placing into state law the emergency rules he put in place following the tragedy at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills.

Laws vary by state but, as a general rule, your homeowners insurance policy must be in an amount which covers the cost to rebuild your home as - is.

Traditionally, Midwestern states have more affordable real estate prices than homes on the coast, and Missouri follows that rule.

IS fighters have forced tens of thousands of Christians to flee their homes across Iraq and Syria as they try to extend their self - declared state ruled by strict Islamic law.

In 1974, N.C. State won the national championship without ever having to leave the red Carolina clay, and it was in the wake of that situation that the rule against teams» playing on their home courts in regionals was enacted.

Manchester United will be able to stay at home and train at their usual base ahead of tomorrow's Europa League game against Liverpool despite current UEFA rules stating that visiting European...

Keep in mind that state rules vary about at what ages your own children count toward your allowed number of children in a home daycare.

Both the Illinois State Board of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture say they have no rules prohibiting students from taking fruit home.

A good home daycare provider is licensed by your state (and possibly accredited by the National Association for Family Child Care), has been in business for a while, and has clear rules and regulations, a firm sick - child policy, and emergency backup care.

The Alaska State Medical Board ruled that Rosi «committed a serious error in judgment» by failing to immediately hospitalize Jacob Stednick, a newborn who had breathed in his own waste in an Alaska home birth.

There may be exceptions to the home state rule when the child has lived in a different state with one parent.

You also want to follow your city and state's rules and regulations for your new child care business, which may require obtaining the proper licenses and opening your home to... MORE inspections.

In Kuric v Slovenia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that once you have legally established permanent residency in a certain state, you keep the right of residence, even if the legal status of either your home or your host state changes and, as a result of this change, your new citizenship status alone would no longer give you a right to residence.

The State is not supposed to act on legislation affecting a municipality without a home rule message of support.

«While we understand the significant cost of complying with the recent court rulings overturning decades of New York State policy on 24 - hour homecare cases, we strongly believe that it is unfair to continue to ask home care workers to bear the financial burden of providing needed round - the - clock care.»

The Court of Appeals also blocked a proposed shopping mall near the New York Mets» home at Citi Field, ruling that developers of the proposed Willets West project needed expressed consent from state legislators and the governor's office before moving forward.

Last month, a State Appellate Court ruled in favor of two home healthcare workers who filed suit claiming the 13 - hour rule violated New York State's minimum wage laws, since they were made available to work 24 - hours a day by being live - in home health workers.

Also at 10:30 a.m., elected officials, wineries and Finger Lakes residents call on Cuomo to reject Circular enerG's trash incinerator proposal and urge legislators to pass bi-partisan bills that would support Home Rule in the state expedited power plant siting process, known as Article 10, LCA Room, (130), LOB, Albany.

Every state and community across Nigeria affected by the menace of Fulani herdsmen and the absence of rule of law are advised to join IPOB on the 30th of May to sit - at - home to bring Nigeria to a halt in honour of those that died.

The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has ruled that the Orange County Legislature was wrong when it voted by a simple majority to create a local development corporation to sell the county's Valley View nursing home.

The lawyer, Jeffrey Wice, said Thursday he believes the county plan does not follow Municipal Home Rule Law, which states officials should «avoid splitting townships» when doing redistricting.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling, state legislators in both houses are working on crafting a new comprehensive framework for sports gambling before they go home for the summer in five weeks.

After all, Gordon Brown talked about a modern form of Scottish home rule, «as close to a federal state as you can be in a country where one nation is 85 % of the population».

Skelos rejected the idea that New York City's tax request should be treated like a county sales tax request or any similar «home rule» request because the city drives the state's economy.

An ethics panel for the state's second - largest public labor union ruled over the weekend that a downstate council leader's misuse of union funds at grocery stores, restaurants and home - improvement outlets «did not meet the legal definition of misappropriation of funds.»

New York nursing homes and assisted living facilities want a state judge to block new rules that cap their administrative costs and executive salaries.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

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The speaker said the Council would only pass a «Home Rule Message» — when the Council makes an official request of the state legislature to pass a special law impacting the city — on a proposal «that's actually gonna pass.»

Home Office rule stated that candidates who have been convicted for a criminal offence and imprisoned are not qualified to stand.

Five home health aides have sued the state to end an emergency rule letting agencies pay aides for just 13 hours of a 24 - hour shift.

«Whether it has been as mayor of North Tonawanda, a New York State senator or as a decorated combat war veteran, Rob Ortt has always gone above and beyond to defend the rule of law at home and abroad,» she said.

To make the living wage a reality, Tompkins County would need to pass a «home - rule» request to New York state seeking the authority to implement a local minimum wage; and to help leverage the decision, a copy of the resolution would be forwarded to the Tompkins County Legislature, the Tompkins County Council of Governments, state Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca, Sen. Tom O'Mara, R - Big Flats, and Cuomo.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

«This proposal spits in the face of home rule in New York State,» said CSEA Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo.

«The Home Secretary has long argued that freedom of movement rules should be a priority target for the EU renegotiation — not only is she personally committed on the issue, she surely knows that the repeated failure to hit the Government's stated migration target threatens her reputation as a minister.

In July, Mr Justice Blake in the high court branded the rule «disproportionate and unjustified» in the case of MM & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Also at 6 p.m., Columbia Law School and the Rockefeller Institute of Government hold forum on «Constitutional Convention Referendum 2017 and Home Rule within the Empire State,» Jerome Greene Hall, first floor, Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., Manhattan.

Union leaders have been clamoring for the Council to pass a «home rule message» allowing the state Legislature to bring more recently hired officers and firefighters into parity with earlier hires.

The bill's prospects looked good after state Sen. Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, called it a top priority and the City Council passed a home - rule message endorsing it.

County lawmakers, Bartels said, are poised to pass on a home - rule resolution to their state counterparts seeking to reverse a current law that bans elected officials from serving on the RRA board.

In addition, the state also rarely enforces a federal rule that requires contractors to use safe work practices when renovating, painting or repairing homes that are presumed to have lead paint.

Many states, including New York, grant their local governments a considerable amount of «home rule.»

Any proposal for a special library taxing district by the Buffalo and Erie County Library System would require the Erie County Legislature to approve a home rule message, pursuant to Article IX section 2 of the New York State Constitution.