Sentences with phrase «political subdivisions for»

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group represented Universal Academy and successfully argued that charter schools are exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction because they qualify as political subdivisions for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act.

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group, filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of TCSA and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) in support of the Louisiana charter school's claims and arguing that Louisiana public charter schools are political subdivisions for purposes of the NLRA and should be exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction.

(b) Each Democratic organization shall have a written constitution which provides among other things (i) that the annual election of officers be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization; (ii) that membership in the organization be open to all enrolled Democrats residing in the political subdivision for which the organization is to function; (iii) that there be periodic financial reports to the membership, with at least one report each year and that the receipts and expenditures of the organization may be reviewed upon the written request of any member of the organization at a reasonable time and place fixed by an officer of the organization designated for that purpose; (iv) that endorsement of all candidates for party position or public office in the party primary be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization.

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Every employer, including the state and any political subdivision, shall provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child.

In the event a primary election is unfeasible, the nomination of the Democratic candidate for all vacant public offices in all political subdivisions that include any part of Kings County should require a vote of the County Committee.

Whenever the Chairperson of the County Committee by reason of the Rules of the Democratic Party of the State of New York is a member of a District Committee of a political subdivision lying partly within and partly without New York County which is required to make a Party nomination for public office, he or she shall convene a meeting of the District Committee for the part of such political subdivision within New York County, to be held no later than five days before the last day provided by law for filing a certificate of such Party nomination; he or she shall consult with such District Committee and in carrying out his or her duties as a member of the District Committee for such political subdivision, he or she shall, to the extent feasible, be guided by the advice of a majority of those present and voting at the meeting of the District Committee for the part of such political subdivision within New York County.

(a) Whenever a Party nomination for a public office to be filled at a general or special election is not made at a primary election or by judicial nominating convention, or when no valid designating petition is filed with the board of elections (1) such nomination shall be made by the Executive Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision whose boundaries are coterminous with the County of New York or the Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by the Executive Committee or a subcommittee appointed by the Executive Committee for that purpose, and (2) such nomination shall be made by the appropriate District Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision wholly or partly contained within, but embracing only a part of, the County of New York or Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by a subcommittee appointed by said District Committee for that purpose.

Nothing contained herein shall preclude the Chairperson of the County Committee from cooperating with the Chairperson of the County Committee of each other county containing part of such political subdivision in convening a joint meeting of all County Committee members from such political subdivision and from acting in accordance with the advice of a majority of those present and voting at such joint meeting in lieu of convening a meeting of the District Committee for the part of such political subdivision within the County of New York as aforesaid.

Florida's constitution, for example, declares, «No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.»

However, any attorney's fees paid from public funds for any officer, employee, or agent who is found to be personally liable by virtue of acting outside the scope of his or her employment or acting in bad faith, with malicious purpose, or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of human rights, safety, or property may be recovered by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in a civil action against such officer, employee, or agent.

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

The term «Federal share» means 80 per centum, except that it shall mean 90 per centum for the purposes of part C of title I of this ACT and as specifically set forth in section 301 (b)(3): Provided, That with respect to * payments pursuant to part B of title I of this ACT to any State which are used * to meet the costs of construction of those REHABILITATION facilities identified in section 103 (b)(2) in such State, the Federal share shall be the percentages determined in accordance with the provisions of section 301 (b)(3) applicable with respect to that State and that, for the purpose of determining the non - Federal share with respect to any State, expenditures by a political subdivision thereof or by a local agency shall, subject to such limitations and conditions as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe, be regarded as expenditures by such State.

(d) In the case of an alleged act or practice prohibited by this title which occurs in a State, or political subdivision of a State, which has no State or local law prohibiting such act or practice, a civil action may be brought under subsection (a): Provided, That the court may refer the matter to the Community Relations Service established by title X of this Act for as long as the court believes there is a reasonable possibility of obtaining voluntary compliance, but for not more than sixty days: Provided further, That upon expiration of such sixty - day period, the court may extend such period for an additional period, not to exceed a cumulative total of one hundred and twenty days, if it believes there then exists a reasonable possibility of securing voluntary compliance.

(c) The term «employment agency» means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person; but shall not include an agency of the United States, or an agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, except that such term shall include the United States Employment Service and the system of State and local employment services receiving Federal assistance.

(C) The term «employment agency» means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer and includes an agent of such a person; but shall not includes an agency of the United States, or an agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, except that such term shall include the United States Employment, Service and the system of State and local employment services receiving Federal assistance.

-- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to invalidate or limit the remedies, rights, and procedures of any Federal law or law of any State or political subdivision of any State or jurisdiction that provides greater or equal protection for the rights of individuals with disabilities than are afforded by this Act.

Forty percent of the funds from the largest highway safety grant program States receive must be spent by local jurisdictions, or by the State for the benefit of political subdivisions.

For purposes of this chapter, the term «employee» includes an officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing.

A security issued by a state, political subdivision or certain agencies or authorities, for certain specific purposes, but backed by the credit of a private enterprise.

It continues until normal Social Security retirement age for state police officers and political subdivision employees eligible for enhanced hazardous duty coverage.

Include a wide variety of debt obligations issued for public purposes by or on behalf of the States, territories and possessions of the United States, their political subdivisions, the District of Columbia, and the duly constituted authorities, agencies, public corporations and other instrumentalities of these jurisdictions.

each public or private animal shelter, humane organization, or animal control agency operated by a humane society or by a county, municipality, or other incorporated political subdivision prepare and maintain specified records; specifying the information that must be included in the records; providing a maximum fee for copies of such records; providing an effective date.

«Animal control facility» means any facility operated by or under contract for the State, county, or any municipal corporation or political subdivision of the State for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized, stray, homeless, abandoned or unwanted dogs, cats, and other animals.

For purposes of this section, the term «cap and trade program» means a system of greenhouse gas regulation under which a State or political subdivision issues a limited number of tradable instruments in the nature of emission allowances and requires that sources within its jurisdiction surrender such tradeable instruments for each unit of greenhouse gases emitted during a compliance periFor purposes of this section, the term «cap and trade program» means a system of greenhouse gas regulation under which a State or political subdivision issues a limited number of tradable instruments in the nature of emission allowances and requires that sources within its jurisdiction surrender such tradeable instruments for each unit of greenhouse gases emitted during a compliance perifor each unit of greenhouse gases emitted during a compliance period.

25 percent shall be allocated to all coastal county - equivalent political subdivisions having a coastline point within 300 miles of the leased tract for which OCS Receipts are being shared based on the relative level of outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities in a coastal political subdivision compared to the level of outer Continental Shelf activities in all coastal political subdivisions in the State.

For purposes of this subparagraph, if a coastal county - equivalent political subdivision does not have a coastline, its coastal point shall be the point on the coastline closest to it.

When an average fuel economy standard prescribed under this chapter is in effect, a State or a political subdivision of a State may not adopt or enforce a law or regulation related to fuel economy standards or average fuel economy standards for automobiles covered by an average fuel economy standard under this chapter.26

(4) the term «false identification document» means a document of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes of identification of individuals that --(A) is not issued by or under the authority of a governmental entity or was issued under the authority of a governmental entity but was subsequently altered for purposes of deceit; and (B) appears to be issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a State, a sponsoring entity of an event designated by the President as a special event of national significance, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a foreign government, or an international governmental or quasi-governmental organization;

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or the state of Washington, its agencies, and political subdivisions to intercept, or record

DOMA has two main effects: (1) It prevents the federal government from requiring that any state or political subdivision recognize a same - sex marriage from another state; and (2) Section 3 of the Act codifies the non-recognition of same - sex marriages for all federal purposes.

He also has advocated for clients before the Ohio Court of Claims, the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals, the Ohio Department of Commerce, and before various zoning boards and political subdivisions.

The final rule defines correctional institution as any penal or correctional facility, jail, reformatory, detention center, work farm, halfway house, or residential community program center operated by, or under contract to, the United States, Start Printed Page 82489a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, for the confinement or rehabilitation of persons charged with or convicted of a criminal offense or other persons held in lawful custody.

Health oversight agency means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is authorized by law to oversee the health care system (whether public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relevant.

Therefore, the final rule defines this term as an agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official mandate.

Public health authority means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official mandate.

Keep in mind that it is unlawful under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Law (N.J.S.A. 56:8 - 2.1) for any person or business entity to operate under a name or in such a manner, wrongfully implying that such person or business entity is associated with any department or agency of the state of New Jersey or any of its political subdivisions.

It also deletes the exemption for political subdivisions that adopt ordinances for swimming pools.