ordinance
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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
County ordinance number appears in the lower right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
City Council’s economic development and jobs committee late last month approved the ordinance, which also would establish a mandatory six-hour paid training to educate workers on minimum wage laws and other labor protections.
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
Bitter local officials pushed through an ordinance banning automobiles from the Stanford campus and all tourist areas, effectively exiling them from the city.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The restaurant, already in need of updating for health ordinances and building codes, shuttered for a three-year renovation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Camarena's company uses electric tools where they're required to, in cities with ordinances banning petrol tools.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
It was a place for marriages and sacred ordinances, not an everyday churchgoing experience.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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