"imposed rules on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone has created or enforced rules for someone else, usually in a situation where those rules must be followed. Example: The school board imposed strict rules on students regarding their attendance.
Assembly Bill 2552 would have imposed rules on the color or style of wording instructing voters to "vote for one" in single-candidate contests, an attempt by lawmakers to address confusion over long lists that may appear to apply to more than one race.
France, with its strong state, has always imposed rules on its citizens.
Alarmed at dwindling stocks, the federal government in 1993 imposed rules on the whole East Coast shark fishery, cutting the take in half, to 8.5 million pounds in 1999 from an estimated 17.2 million pounds in 1989.
Lawmakers have imposed rules on pension investments in the past, from bans involving companies that do business in Sudan and Iran to those producing thermal coal.
And while U.K. officials said earlier this year that e-cigarettes should be regulated like medicines, the Food and Drug Administration hasn't imposed rules on e-cigarettes yet.
Strict constructionists counter that unchecked rulings by judges allows an unelected branch of government to impose rules on society without regard to proper safeguards.
The debate, to be run by his ruling UMP party, will begin in April and will seek to impose rules on how Islam should work in France, which has the biggest Muslim population in western Europe.
Thing Four: Debt Collectors Get New Rules: The nation will creep one step closer to socialism on January 2, when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will impose rules on heroic debt collectors.
Is not imposing rules on audiences - even inversions of accepted rules - problematic?
