(The group had previously persuaded the council to enact Texas' first ordinance requiring rest and water breaks for construction workers).
In the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio, the first ordinance of its kind was adopted last September banning the use of cell phones in cars.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit against the first ordinance, said it opposed the new one and would monitor its use.
Cynthia Harris, vice president of the Santa Clarita Oak Conservancy, said that when the town was created in 1987, the first ordinance to go on the books protected oaks.
When San Francisco issued its first ordinance to ban plastic shopping bags five years ago, Ms. DiCioccio, who was living in the Bay Area at the time, reproduced the outcasts as embroidered cloth sculptures.
"This is the first ordinance that covers a zone that has nothing to do directly with the city property or money," said Madeline Janis-Aparicio, executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, an advocate for the working poor.
The interventions performed during the monitoring of treatment were backed by the Ministerial Decree N°. 863 of November 4 , 2002 the first edition of the Brazilian protocol that established the treatment of hepatitis C with peginterferon alfa in the National Health System [ 33] and the Ministerial Decree N°. 34 of 28 November 2007, an update of the first ordinance described above [ 34].
Mr. Scaduto declined to say if he would challenge the second ordinance, but complained that officials had changed the rules in midgame.
But the second ordinance has been even more flagrantly violated, with Web sites listing dreamy spots with expansive gardens, infinity pools, wine cellars and state-of-the-art media centers.
A new custodial sentence for disobedient journalists has been introduced.The second ordinance, promulgated last week, severely restricts the autonomy of the thousands of NGOs that sprang up during the democratic 1990s.
