Sentence examples for old ordinance from inspiring English sources
The old ordinance set some limits on the size and the number of signs an establishment could have, but it was vague.
In January, the city was sued in federal court over an old ordinance that barred the wearing of masks in public.
Two weeks ago, meanwhile, the Council summoned Hector Buitrago, chief of code enforcement for the city's Building and Safety Department, so he could report on the billboard inventory that the old ordinance had ordered.
Under the old ordinance, introduced in 1979 by the dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, women can be sentenced to death by stoning if found guilty of having sex outside of marriage.
But she said Rockville Centre is likely to retain an old ordinance forbidding "fortune-telling, clairvoyance and phrenology" as well as a prohibition against "breeding poultry, pigeons, horses and livestock".
According to police records, the gallery lacked proper city permits for after-hours dancing and drinking, and an old ordinance aimed at "blind pigs" (speakeasies) and other places of "illegal occupation" made it a crime to patronize such a place, knowingly or not.
More than three-quarters of voters were in favour and the move built on a 20-year-old ordinance.
In Charlotte, though, part of a decades-old ordinance specifically noted that discrimination should be allowed in the case of bathrooms.
A three-decade-old ordinance forbids San Francisco property owners from renting out a private residence for fewer than 30 days without acquiring an expensive permit to convert the property to tourist use.
The 2-to-1 ruling, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, essentially invalidated a 37-year-old ordinance that the police have used to clear homeless people off the streets.
The town had a 20-year-old ordinance aimed at hunters that included a ban on shooting within 500 feet of occupied dwellings, but the chief complained that the way the law was written had left him powerless to enforce the rules or otherwise crack down on the riskiest shooting.
