Sentences with phrase «purpose of the legislature»

It is the purpose of this legislature, as trustee of the parks of this county, to assure that existing park lands are preserved for the purposes for which they have been dedicated and to preserve park lands for generations to come.

Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, questioned Cuomo's budget director about it at a recent hearing on the governor's spending plan, saying she's concerned it could be «potentially stripping the entire purpose of the legislature in budget negotiations».

The purpose of the legislature is to hold government to account.

Krueger said she's concerned it could be «potentially stripping the entire purpose of the legislature in budget negotiations».

Although a court's usual obligation is to give effect to the purpose of the legislature derived from the statutory text, when important values appear to have been overlooked, a court is entitled to conclude that apparently broad language does not, in law, achieve departure from those values, without an explicit indication to this effect in the text.

Not exact matches

The individual citizen has little or no choice in the matter when the legislature taxes the citizenry and appropriates a portion of the revenues as subsidies to private organizations for purposes it deems appropriate (and of course it could not properly give any such subsidies to churches).

The unique democratic purpose of New York's periodic constitutional convention referendum is to implement New Yorkers» inalienable right to alter their constitution in cases where the interests of the legislature and people conflict.

It says the amendment would allow the legislature to authorize up to seven casinos for the purpose of «promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated.»

To realize this democratic purpose, a convention must be substantially independent of the legislature's control.

It's a cute idea, but one with a purpose: The Riders Alliance is collecting these terrible commute stories in order to present them to the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo in an effort to get lawmakers to take the deterioration of the subway system more seriously.

Consider that this proposition, after decades of prodding by good - government groups, was drawn up by a legislature whose fundamental purpose is to maintain its majorities.

«That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or a group.

Lerner says Common Cause has analyzed the details of the bill authorizing the constitutional change, and has found a number of technical loopholes that she says keeps the power to manipulate the lines well within the hands of the legislature, including the ability to continue to add additional Senate seats for political purposes.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Given the «apparent ambiguities» presented by the case, Vance also called on the legislature in Albany to «clarify the Election Law to prevent workarounds that might undermine the purpose of contribution limits,» and to prohibit third parties from «orchestrating the flow of contributions.»

To fulfill the purposes of the amendment, the Florida state legislature has in recent years allocated state funds that must be used for class size reduction in those districts not yet at the limit.

Unions will, of course, object to the use of litigation for political purposes, but that has been the strategy of school - finance litigants for decades: use a lawsuit to pressure the legislature to cave in to your demands.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

That's why, in Utah, the legislature keeps considering tax credit legislation, another form of parental choice, because, strangely enough, you can have tax credits for non-public school purposes under the Utah constitution.

In an effort to fulfill this purpose, the legislature added training requirements in accordance with Michigan Department of Educator Guidelines to Section 380.1307 g.

What really happened here is that the legislature and the Governor finally agreed to take money from a number of accounts that had been set aside for other purposes.

«Instead of focusing on and punishing owners who are irresponsible and criminals who use their dogs for illegal purposes, legislatures choose to place their focus on the dogs, making them into scapegoats.

The charter of the Cooper Union was finally adopted in its present form by the legislature of the State of New York, April 13, 1859; and the deed of trust, executed in compliance therewith, on the 29th day of the same month, by Peter Cooper and his wife, Sarah, conveyed to the board of trustees the title to «all that piece and parcel of land bounded on the west by Fourth Avenue, on the north by Astor Place, on the east by Third Avenue, and on the south by Seventh Street,... to be forever devoted to the advancement of science and art, in their application to the varied and useful purposes of life.»

The National Conference of State Legislatures recently adopted a resolution strongly urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Office of National Drug Control Policy to collaboratively develop and adopt an official definition of industrial hemp for commercial purposes.

In reality the suggestions made by The Rand Royal Commission for the legislature to create legal status for the union by statute were never directly adopted in this manner, but rather evolved to a similar point over time for the purposes of labour relations through a mix of statute and case law.

Four purposes of such adjudication can be distinguished: ensuring that the legislature does not overstep constitutional boundaries; protecting the rights of individuals in specific situations; resolving inter-institutional disputes; and ensuring the integrity of the political office and process.

The Court concluded that it would make little sense for the legislature to amend the OLA with the express purpose of clarifying the liability of occupiers if it always intended for the CPA to trump.

Rather, their approach was much more theoretical than practical.60 In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, established «a Professorship of Law and Police» at William and Mary College.61 George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and, not coincidentally, the lawyer under whom Jefferson apprenticed, was appointed.62 The purpose of the course of study Wythe taught was less about producing practicing lawyers than it was educating the statesmen of the New Republic.63 Wythe did attempt to blend in some practical training with his lectures and readings through the use of a moot court and a moot legislature, though there is no indication that Wythe required any writing on the part of the students.64

-- The «Mediation Privileges» are actually quite confusing when examined carefully.2 So for purposes of the debriefing, just introduce the concept of an evidentiary privilege and indicate the legislature's intent to «insulate» the mediation process so as to encourage settlement.

The legislature avoided defining a comprehensive list of permitted social purposes.

Any provision of law or regulation of the United States may be repealed by the several states, and such repeal shall be effective when the legislatures of two - thirds of the several states approve resolutions for this purpose that particularly describe the same provision or provisions of law or regulation to be repealed.

Only by reminding the public and the legislature of the purpose of copyright and the opportunity for the open flow of information can we ensure that the public prevails.»

For the purposes of Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, would that provision in the state constitution of Jefferson be sufficient legislative consent from the state of Jefferson, so that no act of the ordinary legislature of Jefferson would be needed?

The legislature then added the following language to the statute: «If the child is living with one or both biological or adoptive parents, there shall be a rebuttable presumption for purposes of this section that the parent or parents with whom the child is living know what is in the best interests of the child.»

The Supreme Court accepted the Plaintiff's arguments and found that it is nearly certain that the Indiana legislature intended for USPS certified mail, USPS registered mail, and commercial couriers to all be viewed the same in the eyes of the law for purposes of determining a date of filing.

A 1921 constitutional convention under the direction of the legislature was put together for the sole purpose of reviewing the judiciary article.

The reason or purpose underlying paragraph 12 [of the NRTA] was to secure to the Indians a supply of game and fish for their support and subsistence and clearly to permit hunting, trapping and fishing for food... In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.36

The Commonwealth insists that the statute in question serves a secular legislative purpose, observing that the legislature required the following notation in small print at the bottom of each display of the Ten Commandments:

The Court's summary rejection of a secular purpose articulated by the legislature and confirmed by the state court is without precedent in Establishment Clause jurisprudence.

The Ohio legislature last summer unanimously enacted, and Gov. John Kasich signed, a law prohibiting «knowingly posting text or audio statements or images on a website «for the purpose of abusing... or harassing another person.»»

Definition of «prize fight» (2) In this section, «prize fight» means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.

It seemed to me obvious that the laws belong to the people, and that for my purposes this meant that the enacting body — the legislature or parliament — is the custodian of the statute book.

Created in 1978 by the Michigan state legislature, its purpose is to reimburse auto insurance companies in the state for each personal injury protection (PIP) claim paid in excess of a preset amount.

What really happened here is that the legislature and the Governor finally agreed to take money from a number of accounts that had been set aside for other purposes.

He referred to United States Supreme Court decisions which interpret the Constitution as precluding the legislature from having the power to take property off one person for the sole purpose of transferring it to another.

Where the intention of the legislature is not expressly stated the court plays a greater role in interpreting the legislation so as to give effect to its purpose.

(1) The legislature finds and declares that because the profession of professional counseling profoundly affects the lives of people of this state, it is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the common good by:

Finally, the legislature defined «health insurance» for the purposes of calculating a child support obligation.

The legislature finds and declares that because the profession of marriage and family therapy affects the public safety and welfare of the lives of people in this state, the purpose of this chapter is to provide for the common good by ensuring the ethical, qualified, and professional practice of marriage and family therapy.