Sentences with phrase «pass city ordinances»

Those who have worked to pass city ordinances understand the challenges involved, so the passing of a statewide ordinance is an incredible success that would help pave the way for other states to pass similar legislation.

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Following the lead of voters in Seattle in 2016, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance in October requiring hotels to provide panic buttons to workers by next summer if they work alone in guest rooms.

The hotel industry ended up compromising with the Chicago City Council, and the proposed ordinance in Long Beach failed to pass.

The city of Denton's lending ordinance, which passed in March, prohibits payday and auto - title lenders from renewing borrowers» loans more than three times.

Seeing the lenders» statehouse clout, a number of cities, including Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, have passed local ordinances that aim to break the cycle of payday debt by limiting the number of times a borrower can take out a loan.

On Wednesday, she will ask the city commission to refer discussion of a potential sexual harassment ordinance to the Neighborhood / Community Affairs Committee, the first step in what could become an ordinance similar to one passed in Chicago in October.

On Tuesday, Oakland passed a new ordinance regulating the use of surveillance devices by the city.

In 2012, the city council in Omaha, my former hometown, passed a gay - rights ordinance without official opposition from the Omaha archdiocese.

The ordinance, which the city government passed and the mayor approved, was opposed by a group of book publishers, distributors and sellers.

If Boston decides to pass an ordinance banning the company from their city they will be well within their rights.

For example, the city recently passed a «no camping» ordinance to restrict the number of homeless people who were camping in city parks and vacant lots.

In this sense, for instances, the decision of the Masters Barbers» Association to open neighborhood shops until church time on Sundays is just as surely political policy as an ordinance passed by the city council.

Foremost in their minds now is food security, something that the City of Davao has been proud of being the first with a local initiative in 2010 to pass the Organic Agriculture Ordinance ahead of Republic Act 10068 (Organic Agriculture Act of 2010) on the same year.

In November 2016, the City of Albany passed Ordinance 2016 - 02 which introduced a one cent per ounce general tax, with no expiration date.

My latest crusade is to get an ordinance passed in my city to allow backyard hens (no roosters).

In a statement from the village, Trustee Pat Gira encouraged community members to come and share their opinions at the meeting on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.. The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance banning the sale of dogs, cats...

The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance banning the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from commercial breeders last month.

And so Seattle City Council passes ordinance to protect public breastfeeding.

Later that year, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed Mayor Richard M. Daley's second - hand dealers ordinance to protect Chicago children from dangerous products.

«We are not aware of any cities that have passed ordinances banning bump stocks,» Tom Martin, a spokesman for the National League of Cities, told Recities that have passed ordinances banning bump stocks,» Tom Martin, a spokesman for the National League of Cities, told ReCities, told Reuters.

Colorado: Boulder City Council passes semi-auto ban The ordinance prohibits the sale and possession of assault weapons, as defined by the cCity Council passes semi-auto ban The ordinance prohibits the sale and possession of assault weapons, as defined by the citycity.

In 2016, in response to a proposal to open an indoor shooting range in Midtown Kingston, a divided Common Council passed an ordinance that effectively barred shooting sports in the city.

The Boulder City Council passed a sweeping gun control ordinance Tuesday night banning «assault weapons» and bump stocks, even as a pro-Second Amendment nonprofit threatened to...

In recent years, dozens of states, cities and counties have passed their own ordinances, which typically require employers to provide between three and seven paid sick days a year.

On this date that year, the New York City council passed an ordinance that made it -LSB-...]

«While Mayor Bloomberg often gets credit, the real story here was how NYC used all the tools at its disposal such as City Council passed ordinances, health code resolutions through the Board of Health, and administrative rulemaking,» Dr. Isett and coauthors write.

Two parks have been especially successful in reducing light pollution, the study says: Acadia, which worked with the neighboring city of Bar Harbor to implement a progressive lighting ordinance, and Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which partnered with stakeholder groups to successfully encourage the state legislature to pass the New Mexico Night Sky Protection Act.

In Lafayette, a city ordinance that permanently bans fracking within the city passed with 59 percent of the vote.

Subsequently, the city passed a municipal ordinance requiring sprinklers, pumps, and standpipes in all high - rise buildings over 75 feet.

During that time, she was a co-founder of the Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle, which worked collaboratively with San Francisco city government to pass the nation's first precautionary principle ordinance, in 2003.

When the Dallas City Council passed our bag ordinance, we joined fellow Texans in Austin, Laredo, Brownsville, Kermit and South Padre Island who have passed similar measures.

The Milwaukee Common Council recently passed an ordinance that requires the city's Charter School Review Committee (CSRC) to produce an Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) financial impact statement for any new charter school they authorize for approval.

Did You Know: An ordinance passed by the city of Olympia in 1990 designated $ 1 per person and 1 % of major construction projects be set aside for public art projects.

Several cities in Texas noticed the credit access business loophole and had have passed local ordinances regulating them.

The ordinance was passed by the city council.

In 2007 the City of Lawton, Okla., passed an ordinance mandating that pets be spayed or neutered, or that the owner purchase a breeders permit.

One year ago, the City of Claremore passed a spay / neuter ordinance that compels pet owners to have pets sterilized or purchase an intact permit and collect sales taxes on puppies or kittens sold.

Claremore, Lawton, Sapulpa and other cities in Oklahoma have passed spay / neuter ordinances in order to place the responsibility for preventing shelter euthanasias back on citizens.

In the spring of 1972, an unusually high number of rabies cases in wild animals in East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three months.

The Fort Worth city council has passed an ordinance making it illegal to «sell, exchange, trade, barter, lease, rent, give away or display for a commercial purpose any live animal on any roadside, public right of way, parkway, median, park, playground, swimming pool, other recreational area, flea market, or commercial or retail parking lot that is generally accessible to the public».

Aurora City staff are helping Richardson draft his ordinance based on one that was passed recently by city council members in PhoeCity staff are helping Richardson draft his ordinance based on one that was passed recently by city council members in Phoecity council members in Phoenix.

«The primary reason that we think this ordinance should pass is to prove that San Diego is indeed America's pet - friendliest city, a designation we should all be proud to have had in the past and we want to have going forward,» Weitzman said.

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There was also a lawsuit in San Diego brought against the city and various animal welfare groups and advocates involved with passing the ordinance, but the claims against animal welfare groups were dismissed and the pet store owner bringing the suit ultimately dropped it against the city of San Diego.

Every single lawsuit challenging a retail pet sale ordinance has been decided in favor of the cities that have passed the ordinances and courts have upheld the ordinances as constitutional.

The ordinance we worked on for two years and fought so hard to get passed by the Chicago City Council took effect earlier this year.

That led Commissioner Steve Sisolak to question how the Las Vegas City Council could pass an ordinance banning the sale of «puppy mill» animals.

On March 5, 2014, the people of Chicago and our city legislators sent a clear message that the city of Chicago does not support animal cruelty by passing the Companion Animal and Consumer Protection Ordinance.

The ordinance passed overwhelmingly with a 49 - 1 vote in City Council.