The phrase "a statute that provided" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific law or regulation that has established certain provisions or rules.
Example: "The new legislation was based on a statute that provided guidelines for environmental protection."
Alternatives: "a law that established" or "a regulation that stipulated".
"Quite honestly, there's been a Floria statute that provides for a manual recount that has been on the books for I don't know how many years," said Mr. Burton, who had voted against the recount when it was first proposed after the election by Carol Roberts, a county commissioner and member of the canvassing board.
We support enactment of a homicide-by-abuse statute that provides punishment for abusing a child to death without intent of killing.
The three cops from that group charged with lesser crimes may get off, depending on your reading of the Baltimore City statute that provides the rules for arresting someone armed with a switchblade knife.
WASHINGTON — A top Pentagon official said Thursday that the evolving war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue "at least 10 to 20 years" and urged Congress not to modify the statute that provides its legal basis.
Until these new laws were passed, legal protections for children on the Tanzanian Mainland and in Zanzibar were scattered among many statutes that provided scarcely any protection for children at risk.
Ms. Kagan also signed an unfortunate government brief supporting a statute that made it a crime to provide any form of expert advice, even legal briefs, to terrorist groups.
It is a question that has divided courts around the country, since it is not unusual for states to offer more vigorous protection for individual rights, either by their own constitutions or by statute, than that provided by the federal Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court.
Klepper pointed to a Maryland defamation statute that might provide a basis for Melania Trump's suit.
Although the "dual sovereignty" doctrine allows New York State to charge Mr. Aleynikov with a similar crime, the state also has a statute providing that "a person may not be twice prosecuted for the same offense".
Mr. Tunick and his allies usually point to a clause in the state statute addressing public nudity that provides an exception for "the breast-feeding of infants or to any person entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment".
