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bylaw
noun
A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
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Under a 1996 bylaw in Havana, only organic growing methods are allowed.
Det Insp Phil Spurgeon said the G4S security guards employed by the council could legally cite a library bylaw to deny individuals access to the library.
Yet HealthSouth's new bylaw stipulates that outside candidates must win 40% of votes to be reimbursed.
In December, on safety grounds, a gated community in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, passed a bylaw banning street play.
But his efforts to impose his will on Repsol have been hampered by a bylaw that limits the voting rights of any single shareholder to 10%.
For a start the Mohawks do not see themselves as Canadians.The council passed a bylaw in 1984, supported by the majority of the reservation's 8,000 residents, which stipulated that a person must have at least four Mohawk great grandparents to live or own property there.
Cynical folk may suspect that HealthSouth's new bylaw is partly intended to draw a line under the firm's past scandals.
Having narrowly failed to secure similar bylaw changes this year at Dell and Office Depot, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (a trade union and, through its pension fund, an activist shareholder), plans to bring similar votes at six companies at least in 2010.Yet there are reasons for pessimism.
In the new order, space became neutral and connective, and, in the new "bylaw housing," streets were regular in layout and width, with side streets at right angles and back alleys in parallel lines.
A number of British athletes, including the Olympic gold medallist Mark Hunter, have expressed disappointment at the imminent overturning of the British Olympic Association's controversial bylaw that bans dopers from the Games for life.
It owes its attraction in large part to a bylaw passed in 1953 requiring all new buildings to follow the traditional architectural style, with a ground floor of concrete or stone and wooden-clad façades above (to a maximum of three stories).
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