Sentences with phrase «elected bodies such»

In cities and towns where voters opposed legalization, elected bodies such as town councils or boards of selectmen can impose a ban without polling residents.

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There are many specific mechanisms for this including: being appointed (rather than elected), appointments are for life, judges do not report to a political body (such as a legislature or executive department), and an independent professional body (typically a bar association).

Similarly, the churches such as Orthodox Church and Catholic Church elect their heads because the positions are not hereditary, even though the churches do not consider themselves «democratic» bodies.

The decision to vest power in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee was a major reform, as centrally held control of such monetary policy was historically vested in the elected body and was traditionally a major feature of Governmental power.

Some current school board members, such as Pat Body, raised concerns that the vote took place before newly elected board members start in January.

The prospect of an expected coalition government also forces us to ask how the Lords would see such a proposal (independent of measures that would likely see the House of Lords become an elected body too).

I have been elected to serve for a decade or longer on a variety of deliberative non-profit boards, including Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York's Fraunces Tavern Museum Board of Managers since 2002 and Queens Community Board 11 (ten years) and especially as president of such bodies including Westmoreland (property owners) Association Board of Directors (17 years) and Little Neck Community Association Board of Directors (ten years).

The delicate and sometimes unpleasant politics of churn are the reason many reformers question whether an elected body, such as a traditional school board, has the gumption to handle tasks as potentially unpopular as declaring schools to be failures and handing them over to more capable managers, or shuttering them altogether.

It is, however, unclear what happens when such a body seems reluctant to implement policies enacted by elected officials.

Absent such supervision, no action of a state body run by elected professionals would appear to be reliably protected by state action immunity, even if the conduct is authorized by state statute or a state's constitution.

Alternative account: The Supreme Court affirmed that the Scottish Parliament is subject to judicial review, subject to such considerations, including considerations of deference on institutional and democratic grounds, as are fitting in respect of an elected legislative body.

We require that exceptions for rules to ensure appropriate state regulation of insurance and health plans be stated in a statute or regulation, so that such exceptions will be clearly tied to statements of priorities made by publicly accountable bodies (e.g., through the public comment process for regulations, and by elected officials through statutes).

State - based mechanisms that are constituted through other means, such as direct election and / or representation of organisations — these might, for example, be constituted outside the framework of the National Indigenous Representative Body such as with the new ACT Governments» Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body;

They're the same ones who made the decision behind closed doors and a secret tendering process to do away with GeoWarehouse without consulting the body elect on such a fundamental decision.