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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

“This ordinance adds more weight onto businesses that are already struggling to survive,” Chacon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some local business owners urged the council to reject the ordinance, saying the resulting added costs would be onerous and unnecessary.

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

But there may be another reason, too, said Jim Farrar, director of the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program: State laws and local ordinances that have banned certain rodenticides could be inadvertently fueling typhoid outbreaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

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