ordinance
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The El Paso City Council responded with an ordinance requiring future contracts for license plate readers to be approved by the council.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
On Tuesday, the ordinance passed a final vote, and the next day Durham began unplugging and putting plastic bags over the county’s cameras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on an ordinance Tuesday that seeks to implement more protections for fast-food workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A Shinjuku official supervising holiday rentals told AFP that the district was "planning to revise the current ordinance... to ban private lodging" in residential zones and areas near schools.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Laughing is against the law. Don’t you have a rule book? It’s local ordinance 574381-W.”
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
Rather, it has a patchwork of municipal and county zoning ordinances, with some — including in the cities of Burbank and Culver City and Alameda County — requiring buffer zones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
“Apparently the city ordinances don’t mean anything to them,” he says, “because their lights will be on all night.”
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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