Sentences with phrase «affirmative obligation»

The phrase "affirmative obligation" means that you have a duty or responsibility to take specific actions or do something as required. Full definition
Most of what this masterful charter does is guarantee freedom from government interference in individual liberties «rather than impose any affirmative obligation of the government to provide for the health or welfare of its citizens,» writes Erin C. Fuse Brown, an associate professor of law at Georgia State University's Center for Law Health and Society in a fascinating 2013 paper.
So I would argue that not only do all of us have the right to express our views about SNA's campaign to weaken school food standards, we have an affirmative obligation to advocate against that agenda.
Elected officials in this country have an affirmative obligation to protect the rights of all of their citizens.
In that case, the Connecticut court ruled that all segregation, regardless of its cause, violates the state constitution, and it imposed on Hartford an affirmative obligation to integrate schools in the Hartford metropolitan region.
«There is a challenge to the legislature for inaction... The legislature should not be given wide deference to meet that affirmative obligation
Thus, state officials have an affirmative obligation not just to prevent intentional segregation, but to eliminate even unintentional segregation.
In a 4 - 3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education, which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.
Under the Securities Exchange Commission's Advisers Act of 1940, investment advisers must make «an affirmative obligation of utmost good faith and full and fair disclosure of all facts material to the client.»
The second justification offered for the natural accumulation rule is that enforcement of an affirmative obligation to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice would be impractical, if not impossible, given the nature of the winter climate in the Commonwealth.
«The lawyer has an affirmative obligation to ascertain that the sanitization has been accomplished, whether by some type of meaningful confirmation, by having the sanitization occur at the lawyer's office, or by other similar means,» the opinion said.
Generally, the parent who wishes to have custody of the children has an affirmative obligation to encourage and nurture a relationship between the children and the alternate residential parent.
If an identified birth father is notified of the proposed adoption and does not respond to the agency's notification, or if the agency is unable to identify or locate a birth father, the birth father has an affirmative obligation to assert his parental rights; if he fails to assert his rights, he will lose his opportunity to contest the adoption.
The occasional slip by a parent in the affirmative obligation to promote the relationship between the child and the other parent is far different than a campaign of disparagement and designed interference with that relationship.
1.2 The «primary residential parent» has an «affirmative obligation to encourage and nurture a relationship between the children and the alternate residential parent.»
Standard of Practice 16 - 9 says «REALTORS ®, prior to entering into a representation agreement, have an affirmative obligation to make reasonable efforts to determine whether the prospect is subject to a current, valid exclusive agreement to provide the same type of real estate service.»
If the former, the other agent should've complied with Standard of Practice 16 - 9, which states, «REALTORS ®, prior to entering into a representation agreement, have an affirmative obligation to make reasonable efforts to determine whether the prospect is subject to a current, valid exclusive agreement to provide the same type of real estate service.»
REALTORS ® have an affirmative obligation to serve property owners and prospective buyers to the best of their ability.
Real estate brokers, escrow agents and other real estate professionals do not have an affirmative obligation to report suspicious transactions.
Standard of Practice 3 - 4 REALTORS ®, acting as listing brokers, have an affirmative obligation to disclose the existence of dual or variable rate commission arrangements (i.e., listings where one amount of commission is payable if the listing broker's firm is the procuring cause of sale / lease and a different amount of commission is payable if the sale / lease results through the efforts of the seller / landlord or a cooperating broker).
* Requiring REALTORS ® (principals) to mediate otherwise arbitrable disputes requires establishment of an affirmative obligation in a Board's governing documents.
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