Sentence examples for mandatory retrofitting law from inspiring English sources
San Bernardino's mandatory retrofitting law lasted only a short time before it was rescinded in 1999.
Retrofitting law firm space is expensive.
The Los Angeles City Council to approve the mayor's proposal for long-overdue mandatory retrofitting of thousands of soft-story wood buildings and brittle concrete ones that could suffer devastating destruction in a major earthquake.
City staff has been trying to come up with a plan to reduce the threat from these buildings, but any proposal would fall short of mandatory retrofitting, building director Mark Persico said.
Bakersfield had a retrofitting law from 1993 to 1997 that allowed the city to seize and demolish brick buildings that were not retrofitted, and 125 out of 150 buildings were strengthened.
The alternative, of course, is to refrain from mandatory retrofitting and take the vehicles off the road through attrition.
When more concrete buildings fell in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles Councilman Hal Bernson and Karl Deppe, a top city building official, decided the time was right to push for tougher retrofitting laws.
At the same time, Garcetti has garnered praise for passing an earthquake-retrofitting law and securing new taxes to help pay for homeless housing and new transit lines. .
Does a mandatory carpeting law exist?
Reporting all trial results should be made mandatory by law.
Mexico City recently repealed a mandatory helmet law to get a bike-sharing scheme off the ground.
