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Target sent a letter to Mayor Daley and alderman indicating that if the ordinance were not overturned, they would not proceed on projects in Chicago.

Violating a city ordinance is not a felony.

She said that the ordinance was not often prosecuted but that statistics were not immediately available.

Salinas officials say the proposed ordinance was not intended to shut down the vendors.

Without the stamp of the state agency, a local noise ordinance is not considered valid.

Councilwoman Nancy Nadel drew some applause from the audience when she raised concerns that the cultivation ordinance was not legal under state or federal law.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the "crime prevention justification" the chief justice invoked in support of the ordinance was "not a strong one" because the village itself had not relied on it.

Regarding the proposed Princeton smoke-free air ordinance ("The Noose Is Tightening for Smokers in New Jersey," March 26), I'm astonished that the doctor who testified against it totally missed the point -- the ordinance is not about people's "right" to self-destruction but about protecting the nonsmoking majority from having toxins forced upon them.

Two, the self-denying ordinance is not universal.

This Ordinance is not the proper means to solve any homeless problem.

The court reasoned that the purpose of the ordinance was not to prohibit the free exercise of religion even though the ordinance may have had that effect.