Sentences with phrase «law allows limited»

In Louisiana and Mississippi, recently - passed laws allow a limited amount of compensation for someone who has proven their innocence and been released from prison as a result.

Not exact matches

Fox said he eventually expects Mexico to produce and export as much as 60 percent of the marijuana used by those in the U.S. Fox said cannabis «has to be integrated into NAFTA,» allowing it to be traded across the border «without barrier, without taxes and limits, only complying with the law.»

Although the law would allow people to grow up to four plants at home, Bourque, who represents 125,000 real estate brokers, said there's no limit on plant size, meaning growers could raise giant plants that produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of grass a year, increasing the risk to homes and health.

Further, because access to the restricted portions of the Website is limited by applicable law to Accredited Investors, you agree that you will not allow anyone to access such restricted portions of the Website, or share or disclose any information obtained through restricted portions of the Website with anyone, regardless of whether you believe such person or entity to also be an Accredited Investor.

More typically in the United States you have to be an accredited investor, so you're limited, but I do know there are new laws changed in Canada that allow you to have a certain percentage in private equity.

If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and / or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Republicans want a special prosecutor to investigate the Obama administration, but the law only allows for the appointment of a special counsel in limited circumstances.

If you accidentally over-contribute (i.e., put in more money in a calendar year than you're allowed by law), you will be charged a penalty of 1 % per month on the amount in your TFSA that is in excess of the limit.

Let's wise up people: The decisions of a President are regulated by law, even though he has some discretion the country would not allow anyone to go way beyond his limits, for that we have impeachments.

The same divine law which forbids the killing of a human being allows certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Our subconscious understanding of the laws of physics and the natural laws He has set forth to allow our existence to come about can not be observed, and to say that He is flawed because we see disease is viewing things from a very limited point of view, that being a living human being with an aversion to disease and loss of health.

It is difficult to imagine a more obvious violation of the ban against laws «prohibiting the free exercise» of religion than a law that specifically allows such restrictions, even if there are some limits to the authority of governments to enact them.

Such a policy might have limited the flow of future immigration to something like what the law allows, and this was unacceptable to the elite right.

State and federal authorities, through laws and regulations, limit the amount of VOC emissions allowed, depending on regional air quality issues.

Queensland's government last month changed laws to allow free range egg farms to keep up to 10,000 hens per hectare, up from a previous limit of 1500.

Let's allow adult women a little personal responsibility — this country would NEVER pass a comparable law limiting men's rights.»

But the bill will not go as far as a law passed in Scotland four years ago, which allows public breastfeeding with no age limit on the child.

For context, the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an international trade agreement being negotiated between 12 countries including the U.S., and Fast Track, also called the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), is a proposed U.S. law that would allow the President to get an international trade agreement such as TPP ratified by Congress using a simplified procedure (no amendments being allowed, and a time limit on deliberations).

A letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this signed by the women of color in the state Assembly urged him to push for the adoption of early voting and the closure of the loophole in election law that allows for unlimited donations through a web of limited liability companies.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the public's right to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities to justify the total closure of information related to the names of public officials from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international law, and would promote secret recoveries.»

At this point, there was a significant push to enshrine the office as a two term limit for the sake of changing status quo and in 1951 they drafted an amendment to the constitution doing just that (Though it allowed the incumbent FDR and VP Truman to be exempt from this law until they were voted out, though this did not happen.

Another common refrain in the Bronx, that was also expressed in Staten Island, was strong opposition to the revision of the city's term - limits law that allowed elected officials, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, to seek a third term.

But, Cuomo has said he will call for closure of a loophole in campaign finance laws that allows donors to skirt the $ 5,000 limit for businesses by disguising the donations through multiple limited liability corporations.

They both want to close a loophole in state campaign finance laws that allows donors to use limited liability companies, or LLCs, to skirt donation limits.

Under current New York law, to register an LLC, the owners simply need to provide an official name, the county in which it will operate and a P.O. box, allowing them to create a murky world in which they can hide who they are and limit their personal exposure to debt and other obligations, state Sen. Brad Hoylman explained.

New York state law currently limits wine and liquor sales to the 2,700 liquor stores and allows the 19,000 grocery stores, bodegas and pharmacies to only sell beer.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state legislators approved a law that would allow ride - sharing companies to operate anywhere in the state (previously, they were limited to New York City).

Horner, with NYPIRG, says the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws by setting stricter caps on contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.

But Astorino knocked Cuomo's proposal to allow a limited version of medical marijuana through an existing law and administered by the state Department of Health.

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

Senators Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jessie Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law, enacting the Dream Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to receive college aid, a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers, and putting limits on the amount of money donors can give to campaigns, among other items.

The loophole that allows those controlling Limited Liability Companies to donate essentially unlimited amounts of campaign contributions is an example of the loophole that swallows the law.

The plan includes a total contribution limit of $ 2,600 for all candidates running for state office, a complete ban on corporate campaign contributions, the elimination of «housekeeping accounts,» a $ 2,600 limit for transfers between party and candidate committees, and the repeal of the Wilson Pakula provision of the State Election Law which allows non-party members to be approved for candidacy by party officials.

The Assembly Democrats are once again proposing closing a loophole in campaign finance laws that allows Limited Liability Companies to skirt donation limits for corporations and individuals.

A loophole in state election law allows unlimited donations to parties» housekeeping accounts, while candidates for statewide office are limited to $ 60,800 from each contributor.

The previous fuel storage limit allowed by law, which was first adopted in May 1985, was 250 gallons total per site, he added.

A few residents spoke in support of the short - term rental law and even asked the Town Board to extend the term to a 30 - day minimum, as well as limit of the number of people allowed in a house.

Each school district has its own tax - cap limit based on the statewide figure, but adjusted for exemptions allowed under state law.

The donations, which are allowable under law, far exceed the donation limits that individuals are allowed to make to campaigns.

Cuomo appears to have given up on the state Legislature taking action to close the notorious LLC loophole, which allows wealthy donors to subvert campaign finance laws by creating multiple limited liability corporations that can each give more than $ 60,000 to a candidate's campaign.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

And Gaughran wants to close the loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through limited liability companies.

We support strengthening the Taylor Law and the repeal of the Triborough Amendment, and are strongly opposed to attempts to allow mediators to declare that officials are bargaining in bad faith and we support limiting pay raises from binding arbitration to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.

The Hedge Clippers report says that Cuomo's reelection campaign benefited from a loophole in New York campaign finance laws that allows wealthy donors, such as hedge fund executives, to exceed contribution limits by giving through multiple companies.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

Cuomo has previously called for an end to the so - called loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through limited liability companies as well as limits to the amount of money state lawmakers can earn outside of public service.

You are allowed to break legal rules (e.g. your car does not actually have a speed limit - the law has one; and the ability to break it makes it a «legal» rule, rather than e.g. a software algorithm), and that ability to break them is a fundamental feature, not a bug.

Without discussing Law and Justice party's motivations, I usually hear a non-religious reason for limiting work in Sunday; since it is the most common day for people to have the day off, often it is the only day family members can gather together, making it desirable to allow as many workers as possible to enjoy it.