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Bare and other opponents escalated their fight soon after, filing two suits to amend the ordinance and reverse the rezoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Last month, Bass signed an ordinance that prohibits city personnel from providing anyone outside local government access to data that can be used to determine someone’s immigration status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

The council approved the ordinance in a 3-2 vote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

They are gathering signatures for a petition to put the ordinance to a citywide referendum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

It also didn’t matter that the city bus law—or ordinance, as city laws are called—had said since 1900 that no rider had to give up a seat unless another was available.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

Camarena's company uses electric tools where they're required to, in cities with ordinances banning petrol tools.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In 2020 Pennsylvania’s state legislature overrode local ordinances and expanded the definition of “pedestrian” to include robots weighing up to 550 pounds and traveling up to 12 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

As the ecology director at the nonprofit Climate Revolution Action Network, the 20-year-old has helped put a stop to multiple data centers across New Jersey and pushed for ordinances to ban their construction altogether.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Rules required minimum lot sizes of 5,750 square feet for single-family homes, and strict single-family zoning ordinances were criticized for creating sprawl.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

There was simply no way they could find anything approaching a long-term home among the rules and public ordinances of the living.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny