Sentences with phrase «by legislative bodies»

Administrative law often looks more to the intent than the written word and agencies are charged by legislative bodies to interpret the law and apply that interpretation.

Ordinarily, one thinks of the «spending power» of governments simply in terms of the spending they do on particular programmes, under the authority of legislation passed by their legislative bodies.

Law: The rules, regulations, ordinances, and statutes, created by the legislative bodies of governments, under which people are expected to live.

It is without rules plotted by legislative bodies, but does it police itself?

But the last many years have been a joke as far as enforcing laws passed by our legislative bodies.

Decisions about the rules of the political game — including the geographic delineation of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting systems such as plurality election and proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.

The establishment and maintenance of a community mental health program requires planning, organization, funding, interpretation to and support by the public, support by legislative bodies, and an ongoing dialogue between the provider (sources of funding and professional staff) and the consumer (user of therapeutic and preventive services)

Just because a violation of Biblical guidance is voted and approved by a legislative body and signed by a president the transgression against God's plan remains intact.

The New York State Senate today announced full availability of its mobile application, «NYSenate Mobile,» the first mobile application in the nation developed by a legislative body.

Many other counties are governed by an administrator or a manager, usually appointed by a legislative body.

nearly all have to be confirmed by a legislative body.

The chief place where parliamentary systems win out over the separately elected executive branch (at least in terms of preventing a government shutdown) is that the government (i.e. executive) is chosen by the legislative body.

The approval of the deal was met with several oppositions but eventually received endorsement by the legislative body.

In his originating summons, Ajibola sought for 13 reliefs and these include a declaration that the «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) Law, 2015» and «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) amendment (No. 1) Law, 2017» having been enacted by the legislative body that is not known to the constitution and for the State not known to the 1999 constitution, and having been assented to by the governor in that manner, they are as such illegal and unconstitutional.

He wanted the court to set aside the «State of Osun Local Government Areas Law, 2015» and «State of Osun Local Government Areas amendment (No. 1) Law, 2017» having been enacted by the legislative body that is not known to the constitution and for the state not known to the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The New York State Senate CIOs office announces that it has launched what it believes to be the first iPad app by a legislative body in the United States:

But Tedisco must have a short memory, because gay marriage was actually approved by his legislative body in June of last year, when it voted 85 - 61 to approve a bill launched by former governor Eliot Spitzer.

But can any other accountability system, especially one put together by a legislative body, do any better?

The net result of EPA's action thus far on climate change has been to avoid a vote by any legislative body as well as an independent analysis of the science.

The making of laws by a legislative body, such as the senate, the house of representatives, the various state and municipal bodies, parliaments, etcetera.

Ordinance: A local law; a law passed by a legislative body of a city or township or other local government; a statute; a rule.

Bills are drafts of proposed laws still being considered by a legislative body.

One often - made assumption is that an Act passed by a legislative body during a specific year comes into force during that same year.

``... Attempting to rewrite the statute which must be done by a legislative body not a legislatively created agency.?

As administrators are determining how to spend funds given by a legislative body, it is equally important that the front line workers and supervisors of those workers are able to see the impact that services are having on the consumers of those services.

Not exact matches

After its initial passage, the draft was further reviewed by the Council of State, an advisory body reporting to Thailand's prime minister on legislative matters, before final approval by the Cabinet again on Tuesday last week, according to a local Thailand media outlet, the Bangkok Post.

There are also other tax proposals that have been introduced, that are being considered, or that have been enacted by the United States Congress or the legislative bodies in foreign jurisdictions that could affect our tax rate, the carrying value of deferred tax assets, or our other tax liabilities.

To safeguard and advance the interests of its members by presenting the profession's viewpoints, concerns, and other important information to the media and to appropriate legislative, administrative, regulatory, and private sector bodies, and by developing a working relationship with appropriate governmental and private sector not - for - profit and for - profit entities.

On 29 August 2009, the convention was ratified by the standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, China's top legislative body, which indicates that China is under legal obligation to internalize the norms stipulated in the FCTC so as to effectively control tobacco use.

As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for election is a composite of four key authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical authority: The Constitution, the Electoral Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for election approved by the election management body and l'm talking of INEC.

The lines were proposed by the state Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, a body comprised of elected officials and members of the public selected by elected officials.

By the standards of legislative bodies in this country, after all, the New York City Council as a whole is about as far to the left as you could go.

Zero progress when it comes to stopping the waste of tax dollars and the environment by taking all the bills off the members desks and bringing this legislative body into the 21st century as Proposition 2 requires,» said Tedisco.

Such a system, of course, seemingly has the potential to be used to curry favor by leaders, causing some legislative bodies to ban it.

A report compiled by Consensus, a citizens group, estimated between $ 8.7 million and $ 22.9 million could be saved a year by consolidating Syracuse and Onondaga County governments into one legislative body.

A legislative body could expand the concept of arms in «common use» by permitting (or at least not prohibiting) civilian ownership, and if it reached a point where the courts found it to be «common,» then it would fall under Second Amendment protection.

«We followed suit in the State Senate by putting (ridesharing legislation) in our one house budget which sets the priorties for that legislative body,» Jacobs said.

In a separate statement, issued jointly by the City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, the Council's Black, Latino and Asian and the Council «s Progressive Caucuses, members of the city's legislative body linked Garner's death to national events.

The deal was hammered four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for passing the budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1 budget deadline.

The panel recommended «a legislative change that provides for decision by a simple majority of the total voting body.»

The Assembly's companion bill, sponsored by Joseph A. Morelle (D - Rochester), has 64 sponsors on it as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the legislative body's website.

``... You know, it gets to the point I'm trying to make before, Fred, which is the anonymity of the legislative body must be replaced by accountability, and that's what the governor is trying to do here.

This is because the Supreme Court has ruled that, when a grant of regulatory authority «lay [s] down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to [act] is directed to conform», Congress is not unconstitutionally delegating its ability to make laws.

So while tens of thousands of New Yorkers go to their cabinets tonight looking for food to put on the table for their kids, and while tens of thousands of senior citizens by pass dinner tonight so that they may have enough left from their social security checks to pay for the December heating bill, our esteemed legislators, who least we forget have been awarded the distinction of being the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation, feast and toast themselves in the capital city's Crown Plaza.

By appointing so many of his ministers and deputy ministers from Parliament, currently standing at 64 MPs, the President is further weakening the legislative body and at the same time undercutting his own promise to strengthen the institution to enable it serve as an effective check on the Executive.

That plan, according to the governor's synopsis, would be prepared by each county's chief executive and would then be subject to public hearings, critiques from the county's legislative body and local lawmakers, and ultimately a ballot vote by public referendum that would sign the plan into action.

In response to the clear desire of New Yorkers for fair representation, the Legislature should instruct the Legislative Task Force on Research and Reapportionment, the existing body responsible for redistricting, to adhere to the following standards, in addition to the criteria required by federal law and the state constitution:

In both the House and the Senate, the minority whip is the second highest - ranking individual in the minority party (the party with the lesser number of legislators in a legislative body), outranked only by the minority leader.

Each county must submit a draft plan by Aug. 1 to its county legislative body, which then has 45 days to review the plan.

The schedule of meetings of public bodies in Niagara Falls government this week: The City Council will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, followed by a legislative meeting at 6 in Council Chambers in City Hall, 745 Main St.. The Financial Advisory Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Room 117 in City Hall.