The phrase "authorizing law" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to the law that grants permission or authority for a specific action or regulation.
Example: "The new regulations were implemented under the authorizing law passed by the legislature last year."
Alternatives: "enabling legislation" or "permissive statute".
But again, the bill does not change any existing authorizing law for emergency food and non-food assistance programs.
But there is no language in Nafta's authorizing law passed by Congress that requires Congressional assent before leaving the pact.
The commission collects troves of data on safety-related complaints and problems about products, but that information is rarely made public because a provision in the commission's authorizing law allows the information to be released only with a manufacturer's approval.
One of the sections of the authorizing law establishing the Egg Board states, "no funds collected by the Egg Board under the order shall in any manner be used for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action".
"We have long agreed with some legal experts that SNAP's authorizing law requires SNAP benefits continue during a shutdown," Dottie Rosenbaum, a senior fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said in an email.
The government argues that in the 1980s, Congress authorized law enforcement to use wiretaps to investigate frauds committed telephonically.
Mayor Ray Nagin authorized law enforcement officers and the military to force the evacuation of all residents who refuse to heed orders to leave.
The Supreme Court long ago authorized law enforcement agencies to obtain call logs — albeit on paper rather than from a computer database — without full probable cause to believe a crime had been committed.
Yesterday, Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz attempted to diffuse the issue by writing an open letter asking customers to please leave their guns at home, unless they are authorized law enforcement personnel.
But the task is proving difficult to achieve, because many regulations are written to enforce congressionally authorized laws and the White House cannot unilaterally remove them.
Authorizing local law enforcement officials to arrest people solely based on racial profiling will impede criminal investigations.
