Sentences with phrase «by local municipalities in»

According to the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the first legal structures to recognise the rights of nature were adopted by local municipalities in the United States, bolstered in 2008 when Ecuador became the first country to recognise rights for nature in its constitution.

Economic development and other state grants are often sought by local municipalities in New York State to support utility and transportation projects not fully paid by federal funds.

Not exact matches

At least 189 of the state's 351 municipalities have barred retail marijuana stores and, in most cases, cultivation facilities and other cannabis operations, too, according to local news reports, municipal records, and data collected by the office of Attorney General Maura Healey.

A new report released Monday by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities said investment is needed now to prevent «a rapid decline» in the condition of much of the country's infrastructure, which is overseen by local governments.

Five municipalities in Ontario's cottage country have recognized this and banded together to offer high - speed fibre networking services to local businesses, administered by a division of the local power company.

If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.

The Executive Budget reduces Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) by two percent for cities, towns and villages outside New York City, which does not receive AIM in recognition of the city's numerous alternative funding sources such as a local income tax.

The report, released Wednesday by the left - leaning Fiscal Policy Institute, examined the $ 70 billion in funding that is sent from the federal government to state and local municipalities.

· 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.

He is imposing more cuts in local government services by tying the state tax relief programs to municipal compliance with the 2 percent property tax cap while simultaneously freezing revenue - sharing aid to municipalities at 75 percent below its 1980s level,» Hawkins said.

Consequently, many of the local municipalities in Ulster County requested that the Ulster County government assume the responsibility for solid waste management, and the Agency was created by the New York State Legislature pursuant to Chapter 936 of the Public Authorities Law approved December of 1986.

Officials also reviewed the Intrastate Mutual Aid Program (IMAP), a program created by the NYS Legislature in 2010 that authorizes participating municipalities to share resources during a local declared state of emergency.

Moody's also expects the host municipalities to see increases in local property tax bases driven by the new construction and the growth in sales revenue

By the second year, the homeowners in municipalities living within the tax cap would receive a receive of their tax increase if the local government is taking «meaningful concrete steps» toward a permanent structural savings such as sharing services or consolidating local governments.

Owned by local municipalities, Batavia Downs is roughly an hour from the new del Lago casino in Tyre and the Seneca Indian's casino in Niagara Falls.

Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to piggyback on last year's success in closing a $ 10 billion budget deficit while holding the line on taxes by reducing estimated spending increases to state agencies and local municipalities, state officials said on Thursday.

While it doesn't look like comprehensive mandate relief is in the cards this year, local municipalities notched a big victory with the passage of a bill that will entirely shift payment for indigent legal services from the counties to the state by 2022.

A thorough scoping process, according to the letter, «will require time - consuming research by municipalities and the public to analyze the proposal and identify potential impacts on local land, water and air resources, cultural, historic and community resources and economic development... broad public input in the SEQR process is vital, given the millions of people potentially impacted by this project.»

In response, Governor Andrew Cuomo and other New York lawmakers say they believe they have found a way where residents can still deduct more, by having local schools, counties and municipalities set up a charitable fund where a portion of the money contributed will go to whichever entity sent yo a bill, and a small percentage willl be donated to charity.

As part of ongoing enforcement efforts, local municipalities may issue tickets carrying fines of up to $ 250 per infraction to recreational boaters violating the 5 mph speed limit within 600 feet of shore, which was announced by the Governor in May.

In Suffolk County, officials are trying something that would be sort of a Craigslist for municipalities: an online municipal store that will allow local mayors and supervisors to save money by shopping for common services.

Local municipalities played a pivotal role in the larger ban on fracking in New York by prohibiting the practice in their own backyards.

Municipalities and school districts must «opt in» to the program by passing a local law to participate.

I have been in that great pressroom on Morrissey Boulevard where the papers are cranked out by the thousands, where plates and ink turn blank newsprint from nothing into a document of our local municipality.

This budget proposal not only harms children, by cutting vital programs such as special education services, reading tutors and after - school programs, but, as legislators point out, it hurts local taxpayers since municipalities will be forced to fill in the gaps.

«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County Schools, the state's largest school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by local municipalities.

That would involve limiting the independence of free schools from local education authorities by bringing in new national guidelines to allow municipalities to «integrate independent schools in their planning, improvement and support strategies».

Furthermore, by pledging not to «raise» taxes at the state level, there will be no meaningful state increase in state aid to municipalities and that will translate into massive increases in local property taxes, as towns face the growing costs of education, public safety and other local services.

(i)(1) Not more than 120 charter schools shall be allowed to operate in the commonwealth at any time, excluding those approved pursuant to paragraph (3); provided, however, that of the 120 charter schools, not more than 48 shall be Horace Mann charter schools; provided, however, notwithstanding subsection (c) the 14 new Horace Mann charter schools shall not be subject to the requirement of an agreement with the local collective bargaining unit prior to board approval; provided, further, that after the charter for these 14 new Horace Mann charter schools have been granted by the board, the schools shall develop a memorandum of understanding with the school committee and the local union regarding any waivers to applicable collective bargaining agreements; provided, further, that if an agreement is not reached on the memorandum of understanding at least 30 days before the scheduled opening of the school, the charter school shall operate under the terms of its charter until an agreement is reached; provided, further, that not less 4 of the new Horace Mann charter schools shall be located in a municipality with more than 500,000 residents; and not more than 72 shall be commonwealth charter schools.

As to cost, you clearly have access to data, but of course, special education costs are picked up by the state, as are the transportation expenses and depending on which charter schools you are talking about, the local municipality may be subsidizing students or certain costs as they do in Hartford and New Haven.

A person's home library is that local library designated by the municipality within which the person resides, as defined in Section 102, Library Code (24 PS § 4102).

Note, zero coupon bonds issued by a municipality are exempt from federal, and sometimes local tax, and are not typically held in IRA's.

If a bond was issued by a municipality outside the state in which you reside, the interest may be subject to state and local income taxes.

New York local governments can now regulate large - scale commercial puppy mills and provide oversight of pet dealers, thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signing of A. 740a / S.3753 a. Sponsored by Assembly member Linda B. Rosenthal, D - New York, and Sen. Mark Grisanti, R - Buffalo, the law grants counties and municipalities the ability to enact regulations to protect dogs raised in puppy mills.

NOTE: Language providing that a county, municipality, or other entity of local government may not prohibit the sale of or offering for sale of tangible personal property subject to the tax imposed by Chapter 212 which may lawfully be sold in the state was stricken from final version.

Voters in a municipality can also reject ordinances already approved by local government through the process of referendum. N.J. Stat.

This would require a little bit of leg work and time, but there are already courses and tests called the «Good Canine Citizen», which could be implemented in the municipalities by local dog clubs.

The Warren County SPCA is dedicated to assisting local municipalities by providing humane law enforcement services to stray, abused and neglected animals in order to foster a safe and welcoming environment for residents and visitors.

Each airport in the US is operated by the local municipality or its delegate.

This neo-classical building, constructed as a café - restaurant in 1887 by Enrico Trevisanato, the chief engineer of the local municipality (Comune of Venice), was purchased for # 3,000 and was leased to the Committee for a nominal rent of ten shillings a year.

In a report on Monday to the SEC rebutting Exxon's contention, a former head of the SEC's Office of Municipal Securities said she had reviewed the disclosure documents at the request of the municipalities and found no inconsistencies or conflicts between the allegations made by the local governments in their lawsuits regarding sea level rise and the disclosures they made in their bond documentIn a report on Monday to the SEC rebutting Exxon's contention, a former head of the SEC's Office of Municipal Securities said she had reviewed the disclosure documents at the request of the municipalities and found no inconsistencies or conflicts between the allegations made by the local governments in their lawsuits regarding sea level rise and the disclosures they made in their bond documentin their lawsuits regarding sea level rise and the disclosures they made in their bond documentin their bond documents.

The project will feed solar energy to the grid operated by National Grid and will allow schools and municipalities in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties to participate in this local clean power generation and save money on their electricity bills.

The project is near the Oka National Park in Greater Montreal, with land contributed by the Oka Abbey, the municipality of Oka, the municipality of Blainville, and local landowners.

EnergySage and ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability USA today announced that they have allied to help municipalities reach their renewable energy goals by advancing solar adoption in their communities.

Announced by Governor Cuomo in August 2016, the $ 16 million Clean Energy Communities initiative supports local government leaders across the state by providing grants to eligible municipalities to implement energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable development projects in their communities.

Now actually they reflect the course of successful ACTION taken by local municipalities across the US and in other places.

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.

138 When the Director makes an order or decision under this Act of a class prescribed by the regulations, the Director shall serve notice of the order or decision, together with written reasons therefor, on the clerk of any local municipality in which there is land on which the order or decision requires something to be done, permits something to be done or prohibits something from being done.

Notable mandates: Represented Halifax Regional Municipality in its 10 - year battle with the federal government over the under - estimation of the value of Citadel Hill pursuant to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act; represented the province of Nova Scotia in the purchase of Bowater Mersey Paper Co. Ltd., and on the NewPage Corp. matter; advised Husky Energy on its South White Rose Extension project; acted for Emera Inc. on the development and transmission of hydroelectric power from Muskrat Falls; acted for Dexter to formulate a 3P bid to complete the twinning of the Saint John to St. Stephen divided highway, and provided legal advice when it won the contract; provided all legal services to establish title to Loblaw Co. Ltd. properties throughout Atlantic Canada as part of the establishment of a proposed REIT; engaged by TransCanada Corp. as local counsel on the Energy East Pipeline Project

4.3 (1) Any person who objects to a by - law made by the council of a municipality under section 4 may appeal to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal by filing a notice of appeal with the Tribunal setting out the objection to the by - law and the reasons in support of the objection.