Sentences with phrase «enforced by a local government»

This needs to be a national approach, introduced via each State's legislation, and enforced by Local Government officers with assistance from animal welfare agencies.

Parking offenses are usually civil rather than criminal or traffic offenses, even if enforced by a local government.

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«The next Labour government will ensure the minimum wage is properly enforced, including by giving local authorities new powers, and would set a more ambitious target with an # 8 minimum wage where its value has been eroded and undermined in recent years,» Murray says.

This has historically been interpreted by the courts to not allow the federal government to obligate local government to enforce federal laws and regulations.

The law creates more transparency in local government by holding all county elected officials to a high standard of conduct and enforces stricter penalties for those who do not abide.

Statutory Requirements In 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Control.

A pit bull who was seized from a notorious dogfighting operation in Virginia, rehabilitated in Utah, and adopted by a couple in Texas helped make the case for a new law in Nevada that prohibits local governments from enacting and enforcing regulations that deem a dog dangerous based solely on its breed.

For the most part, however, because enforcing debts against state governments is so difficult, transactions are structured as much as possible to prevent the need to enforce debts in that way through (1) legal limitations on governmental liability, (2) legislative budget rules requiring interest on debt and currently due principal payments to be made first, (3) third - party bonding of state and local governmental construction projects, (4) the creation of publicly owned corporations whose debts can only be collected out of the corporation's assets and revenues, and (5) avoidance of trade credit obligations by paying bills in cash.

The EPA was administered and enforced by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and signed into law by President John F. Kennedy, and it regulates the conduct of local, state, and federal governments and most private employers and covers virtually all workers.

The bill would help states and local governments collect much - needed revenue and level the playing field for community - based businesses by allowing states to enforce sales taxes on goods sold to their citizens from out of state.

Although many municipalities may have been observing a silent or temporary moratorium on the question of permitting suites, it should be understood that local governments have the right to make and enforce by - laws.