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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

Existing city law, known as the Fair Work Week ordinance, requires certain retail businesses to give workers their schedule at least two weeks in advance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“I tell you,” said the policeman, “honestly I don’t know what the municipal ordinance about penguins is, with or without a leash, on the public streets. I’ll ask my sergeant.”

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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

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

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