113 were full-time works council members (exempted from the duty to perform their regular work), 196 were voluntary members (acting as employee representatives on an honorary basis alongside their normal duties).
If council members exempt nonprofits and churches from the commercial designation, it would reduce the number of neighborhood walkways fixed each year, Santana said.
Clergy members are exempt from the reporting of sex abuse required of some categories, like doctors and social workers.
Cigarette sales on tribal land to tribal members are exempt from state excise taxes, but federal courts have found that cigarettes sold to non-Indians are not exempt from state taxes unless a tribe receives an exemption.
But: pickers from non-European Union countries are required to have decent lodging and minimum wage, so berry moguls are turning to Bulgarian pickers, who as E.U. members are exempt from the rules.
Since service members are exempt from civilian workplace harassment laws, the military is shielded from precisely the sort of outside judicial review that could act as a real deterrent.
A similar fear of a politicized court, mixed with concern over a possible erosion of sovereignty, is what has prompted the Bush administration to so strenuously oppose the new International Criminal Court, to the point where it threatened to withhold United States peacekeeping forces unless American service members are exempt from the court's reach.
Its members are exempt from military service, so many miss out on the contacts and technology training that brings.
President Xi has warned that the campaign would target both "tigers" and "flies", indicating that no-one, even senior party members, was exempt from the crackdown.
President Xi warned that his campaign against corruption would target both "tigers" and "flies", indicating that no-one, even senior party members, was exempt from the crackdown.
