Sentence examples for enforce the statute from inspiring English sources
Local and state agencies have complained that they lack the staffing to enforce the statute effectively.
But in 1964, he said, "we had a state obscenity statute," and it was the function of the district attorney's office "to live by and enforce the statute".
Mr. LaBarbiera first announced that the borough would selectively enforce the statute on Sunday to make sure that only essentials — and not "$800 shoes," as he put it — were sold.
The relief asked was an injunction prohibiting the governor and attorney general of the state and all other persons from instituting any proceeding against the complainants, or either of them, to enforce the statute.
The being specially charged with the duty to enforce the statute is sufficiently apparent when such duty exists under the general authority of some law, even though such authority is not to be found in the particular act.
However, those in support of LAWA claimed that the state has the authority under its "police powers" to enforce the statute and that it was not preempted by federal law.
As in the earlier case, the administration also said Friday that it would continue to enforce the statutes applying to same-sex military spouses unless Congress repealed them or a court ruling striking them down.
He served as chairman (2006) and commissioner (2002 2007) of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the U.S. independent regulatory agency created to administer and enforce the statutes that govern the financing of federal elections.
In the notary's act produced when Prince Ascanio Massimo took possession of the castle on February 12 , 1595 the prince's oath to obey and enforce the Statutes is specifically mentioned.
It would seem to be clear that the attorney general, under his power existing at common law, and by virtue of these various statutes, had a general duty imposed upon him, which includes the right and the power to enforce the statutes of the state, including, of course, the act in question, if it were constitutional.
