Not exact matches
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met
minimum standards for inclusiveness and
safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the
safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and
codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
All car seats are regulated by the US Federal Government; therefore, they are always up to
minimum safety standards aka «up to
code» regardless of how expensive they are or what brand.
The problem: Seat belts found on optional bench seats available for the passenger compartment may not meet
minimum code set by the Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards.
Building
codes are a starting point for a bare acceptable
minimum of
safety.
The
Code Enforcement Division enforces the City Codes adopted by the City Commission that establish
minimum standards for health,
safety and general welfare as well as regulates conditions of existing buildings, odors and pollution in order to prevent the creation of substandard dwellings, slums and blight.
«The purpose of this
code is to establish
minimum requirements to safeguard the public
safety, health and general welfare through affordability, structural strength, means of egress facilities, stability, sanitation, light and ventilation, energy conservation and
safety to life and property from fire and other hazards attributed to the built environment and to provide
safety to fire fighters and emergency responders during emergency operations.»
Those
codes, like the NYS Stair
Code and the Connecticut State Building
Code, contain
minimum safety requirements that building owners and landlords must meet including, without limitation:
The farther away from a city you get, the fewer laws you will find in terms of occupancy laws,
minimum building
codes and legally mandated
safety.
Building
codes are a starting point for a bare acceptable
minimum of
safety.
Building
codes are established by local authorities to set out
minimum public -
safety standards for building design, construction, quality, use and occupancy, location and maintenance.