Sentence examples for forest ordinance from inspiring English sources

In addition, the expansion of swidden agriculture beyond customary territories was curtailed by the Forest Ordinance 1953, reflecting a systematic legislative effort by the post-war colonial government of Sarawak to protect forest land for commercial exploitation.

In the Philippines the Forest Regulation of 1873 contained a clause banning caingin (the term for swidden); and in Indonesia, swidden cultivation was prohibited by ordinance in 1874 and villagers were required to obtain official permission before clearing forest to extend village agriculture (Potter 2003: 37 8, Li 2007 39).

Small hounds are mentioned in the Forest Laws of Canute which exempted them from the ordinance which commanded that all dogs capable of running down a stag should have one foot mutilated.

For each national forest, the government prepares a formal plan, similar to a zoning ordinance.

The ordinance, adopted earlier this month, bars the city agencies from buying wood from tropical or temperate rain forests unless "they are proven to have been harvested in an environmentally sound manner," language that Long Beach officials said was close to what the students submitted.

The ordinance failed anyway.

But the ordinance was popular.

The sign ordinance has limits.

The ordinance is largely symbolic.

(This ordinance was superseded by the Ordinance of 1787).

"This ordinance was worded wrong," she said.