Sentences with phrase «law defines its purpose»

A regulatory agency's purpose is whatever the law defines its purpose to be.

Not exact matches

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

As one trade expert has noted, Canada is defined under American law as part of the US military - industrial complex for national security purposes.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are treated as spouses under the applicable state law, will each be treated as a spouse as defined in this policy for state law purposes.

However, individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

Federal campaign finance law defines «expenditures» as any funds spent «for the purpose of influencing» federal elections.

Significantly, the law doesn't define an «endowment» for this purpose, leading to considerable head - scratching in tax circles.

The unity of control and direction, which is material being as it builds through time and space to its climax in man, is but the partial expression of a greater reality, a Law that defines and drives the unfolding a deeper purpose aligned on a yet higher goal.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

The notion of an «adult» for purposes other than voting, is not one expressly created or defined in the U.S. Constitution and can be defined in different ways for different purposes under the law.

Black's Law Dictionary defines collusion as «A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose».

The controversial legislation, often called DOMA, defines marriage for federal purposes as unions only between a man and woman, and excludes same - sex unions, even those valid under state law.

The laws are created to fulfill some purpose but this purposes are not defined in a formal language.

In 2017, Congress made an update to the law that defines NASA's purpose and objectives: the new language specified that the agency should pursue an understanding of the nature and distribution of life beyond Earth, if it exists.

For the purposes of this study, restrictive states were defined as those that had both rejected an expansion of Medicaid and adopted policies or Navigator laws which make it harder to provide assistance to the uninsured.

Anyone wishing to use any text, images, audio and video clips and other content for commercial use, publication, or any purpose other than fair dealing as defined by Canadian law, must request and receive prior written permission from Holistic Wellness.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

The purpose and conditions for the use of copyrighted materials are defined clearly under the law.

After describing the high stakes that characterize school choice debates, I track the purpose of charter schools, defining them both in terms of theory and Massachusetts state law.

For the purposes of this program, public interest legal employment is defined as legal work performed while engaged in poverty law, civil rights law or charitable organization representation.

Note, for tax purposes, if you're not married, the Canada Revenue Agency defines common - law relationships as couples who have been living together for at least 12 months.

Under the terms of the Advisory Agreement, each Fund is responsible for the payment of the following expenses among others: (a) the fees payable to the Adviser, (b) the fees and expenses of Trustees who are not affiliated persons of the Adviser or Distributor (as defined under the section entitled («The Distributor»)(c) the fees and certain expenses of the Custodian (as defined under the section entitled «Custodian») and Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent (as defined under the section entitled «Transfer Agent»), including the cost of maintaining certain required records of the Fund and of pricing the Fund's shares, (d) the charges and expenses of legal counsel and independent accountants for the Fund, (e) brokerage commissions and any issue or transfer taxes chargeable to the Fund in connection with its securities transactions, (f) all taxes and corporate fees payable by the Fund to governmental agencies, (g) the fees of any trade association of which the Fund may be a member, (h) the cost of fidelity and liability insurance, (i) the fees and expenses involved in registering and maintaining registration of the Fund and of shares with the SEC, qualifying its shares under state securities laws, including the preparation and printing of the Fund's registration statements and prospectuses for such purposes, (j) all expenses of shareholders and Trustees» meetings (including travel expenses of trustees and officers of the Trust who are not directors,

Under the California «Shine The Light» law, California residents may opt - out of the disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes (as those concepts are defined in that law) However, we do not currently engage in the type of sharing covered by that law.

The MN Commercial Breeders Licensing and Enforcement law, for purposes of licensing and regulation, defines a commercial breeder as (Minn..

(b) Individuals who are blind or otherwise visually impaired and persons licensed to train guide dogs for individuals who are blind or visually impaired pursuant to Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 7200) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code or as defined in regulations implementing Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101 - 336), [FN1] and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and persons authorized to train signal dogs for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and individuals with a disability and persons who are authorized to train service dogs for the individuals with a disability may take dogs, for the purpose of training them as guide dogs, signal dogs, or service dogs in any of the places specified in Section 54.1 without being required to pay an extra charge or security deposit for the guide dog, signal dog, or service dog.

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated «scraping»; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation «robots,» «spiders,» «offline readers,» etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Company servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on - line web browser (except that Humble Bundle grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from Humble Bundle for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (iii) transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole judgment an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; (viii) using the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Service; (xi) accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein; (xiii) sell, assign, rent, lease, act as a service bureau, or grant rights in the Products, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other entity without the prior written consent of such Products» (defined below) licensors; (xiv) circumventing Service limitations on the number of Products you may purchase, including, without limitation, creating multiple accounts and purchasing a total number of Products through such multiple accounts which exceed the per - user limitations; or (xv) except as otherwise specifically set forth in a licensor's end user license agreement, as otherwise agreed upon by a licensor in writing or as otherwise allowed under applicable law, distributing, transmitting, copying (other than re-installing software or files previously purchased by you through the Service on computers, mobile or tablet devices owned by you, or creating backup copies of such software or files for your own personal use) or otherwise exploiting the Products (defined below) in any manner other than for your own private, non-commercial, personal use.

Even at the time I really didn't like the idea that a person's (or group's) self defined purpose could be above the law.

There is «fair dealing» in database rights to the extent that anyone has a right to extract & reuse an insubstantial portion of the database (not really defined in law but it's very small) for any purpose, or where the portion is substantial, extract and use data for non-commercial research or private study.

For purposes of this subsection, «State - approved production incentive program» means a requirement imposed pursuant to State law, or by a State regulatory authority acting within its authority under State law, that an electric utility purchase renewable energy (as defined in section 609 of this Act) at a specified rate.».

Originally introduced by Representatives Jared Polis (D - CO), Thomas Massie (R - KY) and Earl Blumenauer (D - OR), the amendment allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.

It's not as if Title 26 is redefining a machine gun for the purpose of tax law; Title 18 actually states something along the lines of «Machine gun, as defined in Title 26 / Section etc etc».

It may sound obvious or unnecessary, but you should clearly define the purpose of your law firm marketing plan.

It draws helpful linkages between conflict resolution and various disciplines (law, politics, environment, psychology, religion, philosophy etc.) and describes how the training and experience of conflict resolvers (mediators in particular) can be used for a wide variety of purposes beyond how we usually define mediation.

This is because if a statute defined the class to whom it applied directly in terms of those who suffer from the mischief to be ameliorated, legal life would be much simpler because «[t] he class, being defined directly in terms of the Mischief, automatically includes all who are similarly situated with respect to the purpose of the law.»

The purpose of mandatory CLE, defined in varying terms by each state, is for lawyers to maintain their professional competence — ensuring their knowledge of the law, to better serve their clients.

The group identified by the Trait, i.e. the nonpurposively described class (T) to which the law in its attempt to capture the class defined by the statutory purpose (M), may or may not in fact overlap with the class (M) we seek to help.

California law defines «inhabited» as meaning a building that is «currently being used for dwelling purposes, whether occupied or not.»

Hanlon related to the charge under the Legal Aid Act 1974, s 9 (6); but for all practical purposes the charge is defined in the same way in s 25 (1), so Hanlon can be treated as the law today.

She gave five reasons in particular why the scope of the exclusion clause should not be limited to the offenses outlined in Article 1 FDCT: firstly the wording refers to acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN and is not limited to terrorist offenses; secondly, such an interpretation would be at odds with the Geneva Convention in light of which the Qualification Directive should be interpreted; thirdly, the Qualification Directive as an instrument of asylum and humanitarian law and the FDCT are qualitatively different and derive from different areas of law; fourthly, it would unduly restrict the application of the exclusion clause and finally, fifthly, the fact that the FDCT is an instrument of variable geometry with varying application across the Union would lead to problems if it were used as criteria in defining terms for the purposes of the application of the Qualification Directive.

The authorization for electronic disclosure of protected health information described above is not required if the disclosure is made: to another covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 181.001, or to a covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 602.001, Insurance Code, for the purpose of: treatment; payment; health care operations; performing an insurance or health maintenance organization function described by Section 602.053, Insurance Code; or as otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law.

Case law in this context has defined unwarranted to mean «without reasonable justification, patently unreasonable, malicious, taken in bad faith or for a collateral purpose.»

The term «law enforcement officer» is defined in different jurisdictions in different ways and is defined in different ways for different purposes.

1.5 For the purposes of this Policy, «European Data Protection Legislation» is defined as, for the periods in which they are in force, the European Data Protection Directive 95 / 46 / EC, all laws giving effect or purporting to give effect to the European Data Protection Directive 95 / 46 / EC (such as the Data Protection Act 1998) or otherwise relating to data protection (to the extent the same apply) and, from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/670)(«GDPR») or any equivalent legislation amending, supplementing or replacing the GDPR.

For the purposes of these Terms, Legal Advice is defined to include the following: • any legal related communication, work or service which, under the governing law of your jurisdiction, is only allowed to be performed by or under the supervision of a properly licensed attorney; • advice on which legal document or documents you need or are best for your situation; • determining the legal consequences that will or could result from how you have created your legal document; • whether you have included inappropriate, conflicting, or ambiguous information in your legal documents; • whether you have omitted any necessary provisions or details from your legal documents; and • whether you require any additional legal documents or legal procedures.

It is in this space that law firms now have the time to evaluate, assess and define a sense of purpose.

While the NY Public Health Law has defined lead poisoning as occurring at a level of 10 µg / dL (micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood) for purposes of overall health policy, the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that even low - dose lead exposure is dangerous for children and can cause irreversible brain damage.

Under this law, «genetic testing» is defined as follows: «a test, examination, or analysis which is generally accepted in the scientific and medical communities for the purpose of identifying the presence, absence, or alteration of any gene or chromosome, and any report, interpretation, or evaluation of such a test, examination, or analysis, but excludes any otherwise lawful test, examination, or analysis that is undertaken for the purpose of determining whether an individual meets reasonable functional standards for a specific job or task.»

For the purposes of these awards, networks / alliances are defined as being comprised of a number of independently run law firms.

● Clarify the vision, purpose, and mission for your law practice ● Define and develop your legal niche to match your greatest strengths and motivate you to be the best in that field ● Project a likeable personality and acquire traits that will attract potential clients, who will eagerly seek you out to solve their legal problems ● Network and market your practice to generate a stream of clients ● Efficiently manage a solo law practice or small firm with limited resources and optimum results ● Evaluate law practice technology and marketing companies to find those which add value to your business (within your budget) ● Create systems and procedures for all office operations and client relations ● Create a peer group or gain a mentor to encourage and guide you as you build your practice

(2) Has as its principal purpose the regulation of the manufacture, registration, distribution, dispensing, or other control of any controlled substances (as defined in 21 U.S.C. 802), or that is deemed a controlled substance by State law.