Some people reacted with joy to the impending end to the emergency statute.
The Republican-led state legislature enacted Public Act 436 six weeks later – a law virtually mirroring the emergency manager statute rejected by voters.
Michigan's 2012 session, for example, produced right-to-work laws and a contentious revised emergency manager statute for cities in financial peril, despite voters having just repealed the previous law.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that the city had made "a good faith effort" in setting up the command center, which complied with statutes governing emergency planning.
In Estonia, two statutes provide emergency powers.
Mrs. Clinton said she was less worried about Egypt's being ready for the September elections, provided the government, working with opposition groups, amended the Constitution and repealed statutes like the emergency law, which gives it broad authority to suppress political dissent.
In Great Britain and many other jurisdictions, such questions are of little significance in view of the modern practice of taking emergency or special powers by statute.
In June it issued an emergency ordinance modifying the 2003 statute setting up the Romanian Cultural Institute, which had previously reported directly to President Traian Basescu, Mr. Ponta's political rival.
Under a controversial state statute that allows emergency managers broad powers over financially troubled cities, Mr. Snyder has 10 days to decide whether to approve such a deal with Detroit or call in an emergency manager.
A temporary blackout is no excuse for a violation of federal and state law, Mr. Blumenthal said, adding, "The secretary of energy has no authority to extend in perpetuity an emergency order that is limited by statute to an emergency".
