Officials in Westchester and in counties across New York have bemoaned the growing number of mandated expenses imposed on counties by the state government, from Medicaid to pension costs.
Calli Barker Schmidt, director of environmental communications for the National Association of Home Builders, says the home building industry may not be required to take substantial direct action to reduce ozone generation, but any construction moratoriums that may be imposed on counties that don't meet the standards could be costly for her clients.
If aid to local governments is cut, I think the state should also cut, or at least relax, many of the mandates it imposes on county and local governments.
Bekendtgørelse om økonomiske rammer for frit valg til private specialsygehuse, BEK 627, 20 June 2004).. Financial restrictions are imposed on the counties as their obligation to finance care at certain private hospitals including hospices, sclerosis hospitals, arthritis sanatoria, and brain rehabilitation hospitals is limited to a certain annual amount.
And they were spared a furlough that was imposed on other county employees two years ago.
As Ben-Gurion's deputy minister of defense, Mr. Peres also held part of the responsibility for the harsh and often arbitrary restrictions that the military imposed on the county's Arab citizens, including extensive land confiscations.
In its suit, Shelby County argued that the widespread discrimination of the Jim Crow era had ended, and that "it is no longer constitutionally justifiable for Congress to arbitrarily impose" on the county and other covered jurisdictions the "disfavored treatment" of having to obtain preclearance from Washington.
But this year the Legislature passed a new law that imposes fines on counties and municipalities that do not do away with and stop enforcing their own firearms and ammunition ordinances by Oct. 1.
The Senate has been wary, and appropriately so, of moving forward on any bill that could impose costs on counties — costs that would be passed along to the state.
Unless we encounter county police when we drive on county roads or visit Rye Playland, the county bureaucracy is a largely invisible layer of government imposed on us by New York State.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned 37 of the 59 death sentences imposed since 1982 (and last Thursday, the high court vacated the death sentence imposed on Thomas Koskovich, who was convicted of murdering two Sussex County pizza delivery drivers in 1997).
