Sentences with phrase «advisory referendum»

[17] The Scottish government insisted in 2010 that they could legislate for a referendum, as it would be an «advisory referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament», [16] whose result would «have no legal effect on the Union».

The Hampton Roads REALTORS ® Association, along with NAR, have been promoting and supporting a fall advisory referendum question on the proposed expansion.

Voters in the Plainfield Township Park District will be deciding three advisory referendum proposals in the March 18th election.

The district «s suit is against the Du Page County Board of Elections, which ruled that park districts do not have the authority to hold advisory referendums.

It also contains provisions for advisory referendums that will test public opinion and can influence policies.

ROLLING MEADOWS — An attorney for the Park District says the board might not have the legal authority to act on a citizen - driven advisory referendum.

In March, Plainfield Park District voters supported a park district advisory referendum question asking if they supported term limits.

In a Rolling Meadows advisory referendum, voters rejected plans for a senior citizen housing project that would have cost about $ 4 million.

In two Sleepy Hollow advisory referendums, voters rejected an increase of up to 5 percent in the village levy as well as the creation of a police pension fund.

The Law advisory referendum does not explicitly clarify when there is a majority.

Today, Wednesday April 6th, citizens in the Netherlands can cast their votes in an unprecedented advisory referendum.

The result of the UK's advisory referendum on EU membership on 23 June 2016, which returned a slim majority in favour of «Brexit» provoked much discussion on this blog (10 posts so far) and elsewhere about the UK's future relationship with the EU and the future of the EU itself.

The group, headed by Du Page County Board member Michael Formento, is trying to collect 2,100 signatures in an effort to get three advisory referendum questions on the ballot.

An advisory referendum on the issue was overwhelmingly approved in November.

Although voters approved an advisory referendum in March to fund the two - level center, residents are divided over the proposed site, which is bounded almost entirely by homes.

The results of the advisory referendum questions will be discussed at the park board's April 1 meeting, board President Peter Hurtado said.

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

The conservancy last year helped defeat an Evanston proposal to site a marina just north of Rogers Park and helped pass an advisory referendum item making it clear an extended Lake Shore Drive on landfill was not acceptable to the community.

Stung by the overwhelmingly negative responses last month by residents to two advisory referendum questions about the $ 12 million health facility, the park board quietly agreed Tuesday to take final action to abandon its role in the project at its April 16 meeting.

The district had filed a suit recently in Du Page County Circuit Court in an attempt to get its advisory referendum questions on the November ballot.

In an advisory referendum item in November, hundreds of residents said they favored leaving the Park District, said Orland Park Acting Village Manager R.J. Zeder.

Although the Park Board is not formally bound by the results of the March 21 advisory referendum, the 6,939 to 5,747 vote opposing construction of the outdoor facility on Park District property near Belmont Road and Grant Street gave members pause.

The Arlington Heights Village Board decided in December to hold an advisory referendum rather than just vote on an ordinance patterned after Morton Grove «s landmark measure, passed in June, 1981.

In the first Illinois test of public opinion on the handgun issue, Arlington Heights residents said «no «Tuesday to an advisory referendum proposal that guns be banned from the northwestern suburb.

Park District Executive Director Barbara Heller said Friday that some board members were still considering placing an advisory referendum measure on the April 17 ballot and may reconsider the issue at a future meeting when all board members are present for a vote.

Arlene Mulder, Arlington Heights village president, said she and the other two members of the electoral board, Village Clerk Edwina Corso and Trustee Stephen Daday, set aside both their desire to keep the track and some board members» earlier support for an advisory referendum in making the decision.

Under the current devolution settlement the Scottish Parliament is able to hold an advisory referendum on independence at any time.

The other option is to propose a bill to have the Act nevertheless enter into force: For the results of an advisory referendum are not binding.

The advisory referendum on Brexit took place before Trump's election.

Assuming that the signatures are declared valid and an advisory referendum is scheduled: in this case, can the Tweede Kamer (Lower House), or anyone else, amend or repeal the law before the referendum is held?

The thing about an advisory referendum is that it is for parliament to decide what to do with the advice the electorate gives.

It was an advisory referendum.

Racine County Executive Bill McReynolds on Tuesday added his name to the growing list of people who want an advisory referendum this fall to protect the state's transportation money.

In his final State of the City address Thursday evening, Mayor Dwight C. Jones announced a proposal to include on the November ballot an advisory referendum on raising the city's real estate tax rate to fund public schools projects.

The choice is between an advisory referendum and a referendum which is binding, but is subject to later legislation if Parliament changes its mind.

The House of Lords Select Committee report in 2009 on Referendums in the UK heard expert evidence that advisory referendums were less likely to be taken seriously and more open to voting for reasons other than the merits of the question (see paras. 190 — 92).