Sentence examples for amendment to state from inspiring English sources

But last year officials were notified that under a 1997 amendment to state law, the institution was now classified as a "small city school district public library".

Three law students, two from Georgetown and one from George Washington, spoke earnestly about which part of the Fourteenth Amendment the court should use to apply the Second Amendment to state and local governments.

But lenders don't always agree to do what's known as an assignment — a 1989 amendment to state law gives them discretion to reject such requests, according to Douglas Wasser, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.

In New York, State Assemblyman Jack McEneny, Democrat of Albany, recently introduced an amendment to state anticruelty laws that would make the force-feeding of a bird for foie gras illegal.

Earlier this month, the State Board of Regents approved an emergency amendment to state education regulations to allow teachers who are credentialed in other states to teach in New York City even before they have passed certification exams.

The proposed Byram Hills plan, which would require an amendment to state vehicle and traffic law, would be specific to the county and go further than restrictions in New York City and on Long Island.

Victories for same-sex marriage tend to produce a voter backlash: witness last year's amendments to state constitutions.

Subsequently, vigorous campaigns were conducted to persuade state legislatures to submit to their voters amendments to state constitutions conferring full suffrage to women in state affairs.

The sweeping support on Nov. 2 for amendments to state constitutions defining marriage as between a man and a woman should come as no surprise.

Florida's provision was tucked into a bill that largely concerned amendments to state regulations on vacation rentals, and assigned the state the sole authority over "matters related to the nutritional content and marketing of foods" in restaurants and hotels.

But Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said the new language continued to leave the proposal "highly ambiguous" and could be construed as banning civil unions authorized by amendments to state constitutions.