Sentence examples for municipalities right from inspiring English sources

Anthony Panzarella, the mayor of Malverne, said the franchise fee was not as much an issue as municipalities' right to compel Verizon to deal with problems.

Since it was passed in March 2011, Public Act 4 has faced opposition from citizens and organizations saying it undermines residents' right to representation and municipalities' right to home rule.

And to put this into some context of current events, the FCC has just made some recent announcements about Net Neutrality and municipalities' rights to offer broadband.

The Brazilian constitution gives not just the country's 27 states but also its 5,570 municipalities the right to interpret the law as they see fit.

Nationwide, legal assaults have been turned back by the courts, which have continued to give municipalities the right to zone and regulate, even for esthetics, within their borders.

COUNTY Executive Andrew J. Spano has signed a law that gives municipalities the right to buy any property the county sells, even though he said he feared it could be used to thwart efforts to increase the county's inventory of low-cost housing.

But it may be that a combination of institutional reform and firepower is slowly beginning to weaken the cartels, or at least alter their behaviour.In Monterrey the state government is experimenting with an ad-hoc unified force that gives municipalities the right to opt out.

"The State of Texas has granted municipalities the right to oversee oil and gas operations.

At least five Wildwood shops had challenged the municipality's right to ban the crabs' sale.

Mr. Blumenthal said that while the nation's highest court ruled 5-4 thet the F.D.A. has no authority over tobacco use, the issue in Connecticut concerns a municipality's right to restrict and even ban machines that make cigarettes available to children.

And in cases where the easement is granted as part of a subdivision that needs municipal approvals, Mr. Ward said, it may be necessary to include in the agreement a provision that gives the municipality the right to perform maintenance on the shared driveway if the owners fail to do so and then apply the appropriate charges to the owners' tax bills.