Sentences with phrase «said the state law»

Park Board President Gery Chico said state law gives the Park District ultimate say on how its land is used, but park officials will consider the city's recommendation.

The critics also said the state law wouldn't likely withstand a federal legal challenge.

He says state law requires that any evidence of criminal activity by a Moreland Act Commission be forwarded to the state police and other law enforcement officials.

Critics say state laws are far looser when it comes to ethical rules.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), who is deputy Senate majority leader, says he hears all the time from New Yorkers who say state laws should be changed to stop public corruption in Albany.

When one of the attendees said state law required one polling place, Steck, who is also a lawyer, disagreed.

Miner said state law is firm.

But Laufer said state law allows party committees to coordinate in support of the party's candidates, and allows candidates who want to be elected to seek financial aid from the party's leadership.

They say state law requires Nojay's name remain on the ballot because he died within seven days of the primary.

The assemblywoman had said state laws did not prohibit her from temporarily living out of her district.

Ryan said state law gives Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia the «power to remove» a school board member if the person's actions interfere with the functioning of the board.

In one opinion, Barry Ginsberg, executive director and general counsel of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity, said state law allows a local municipality to accept the state disclosure form in place of the local form.

Poloncarz says state law limits what he can say about the investigation and why the workers were fired.

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration recently cancelled a charter school's pre-k program, saying state law prohibits charter schools from offering pre-k and the school was only allowed to offer pre-k due to an «oversight in the chartering process during the previous administration.»

Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents petition for change at poor - performing schools, is disputing an LA Unified legal opinion that says the state law that gives parents that right is invalid this year.

A 30 - year veteran of teaching in California school districts testified for the defense today in Vergara v. California, saying state laws protecting teacher employment are critical to maintaining teacher effectiveness in the classroom.

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Zanders said state law protects Cook's employment because he had worked for the Orleans Parish School Board.

It says the state law that authorized the bailout loan for the district also requires the state superintendent to assume the legal rights, duties, and powers of Inglewood Unified's school board.

Several legislators criticized the auditor for proposing policy, but Mr. Persica says state law allows audits to include «evaluations of the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness.»

The union's Fletcher said state law requires any teacher evaluation system to be negotiated with teachers.

* UPDATED Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents petition for change at poor - performing schools, is disputing an LA Unified legal opinion that says the state law that gives parents that right is invalid this year.

State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, who sits on the state school board, said state law has allowed for «local charters» in prior years, but no proposals ever got off the ground.

But Mayne said a state law will give teeth to efforts to curb bullying, inappropriate photos, cheating and the myriad disruptions caused by cellphones in school.

He said the state laws pertaining to releasing non-native animals would supercede any ordinances the county could create.

While people often say «federal law takes precedence over state law,» the normal rule is that both laws apply; the federal law only blocks the state law if the feds wanted to block said state laws.

Molly DeFrank, a spokesperson for the California Department of Insurance, said state law allows consumer groups to comment on applications like State Farm's and that final approval depends on how many groups choose to «intervene.»

Former State and Federal Prosecutor David Weinstein called Finkelstein's offer an «interesting tactic,» but said state law allows the victims» relatives to have input on the sentencing.

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Rep. Brian Bosma, the speaker of the state House, said that the law does not allow discrimination against «any segment of the Hoosier community.»

Thorburn says the political fallout would be too damaging if Trump and Sessions started flexing federal law on state - legalized marijuana companies.

Kelly said that procedures won't be too different under the new law because the state, like more than two dozen others, had already legalized medical marijuana.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Sessions has said that he plans to leave the enforcement of the law up to U.S. attorneys in each state.

But without consistent laws or a clear oversight authority - local, state or national - «nobody is accounting for anything,» said Todd Olson, an anatomy and structural biology professor at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Golloher, who is seeking unspecified damages, says Fox violated New York City and state laws prohibiting workplace discrimination.

While proponents downplay the impact of their respective laws, economic experts say they are likely to inflict far - ranging damage in those states, not only on LGBT customers and residents, but also on companies that operate there or are considering doing so.

Over the last three years, New York and Maryland have told the company to drop the word «university» from its title, saying that using it violated state education laws.

A U.S. Justice Department task force recently said the Cole Memorandum, which restricts federal marijuana law enforcement in states where pot is legal, should be reevaluated to see if it should be changed.

(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»)

Google has not filed for a trademark using its new handle, for which the United States Patent Office currently lists more than 400 matches, says Marsha Gentner, senior counsel and a trademark attorney at Dykema, a law firm in Washington, D.C.

Although President Donald Trump has said that this new version, like the first bill that was pulled from consideration, will cover pre-existing conditions, the revised law gives states broad latitude to allow insurance companies to increase rates for consumers with an existing illness.

On Friday morning, the Kremlin condemned the US «aggression against a foreign state,» saying it broke international law.

Before you start splitting time between two or more states, consider which you want to be your primary place of residence, or domicile, said attorney John J. Scroggin, an accredited estate planner and partner with Roswell, Georgia - based law firm Scroggin & Co..

The Journal says the subpoenas come as New York plans to issue a memo raising questions over whether Bitcoin companies are following state law.

Section 4 says, in part: «The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law... shall not be questioned.»

The department reached out to a group of state attorneys general — the top law enforcement officials at the state level — that earlier joined the review, the source said.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

«Many of the laws on the state level say that you have to have it in the handbook.»

«It also operates to accuse Ms. Clifford of committing a crime under New York law, as well as numerous other states, in that it effectively states that Ms. Clifford falsely accused an individual of committing a crime against her when no such crime occurred,» the suit says.