There are plenty of ordinances, mostly passed at the insistence of La Guardia.
92 of 2008 regarding the ordinary use of ordinances.
115, various mayors have expressed their intent to return to the previous wider application of ordinances.
The Court also emphasised the scant knowability and comprehensibility of ordinances.
One nagging issue that remains, however, is the role of ordinances in stimulating the informal sector.
6According to Pizzetti (2012), from 2008 to April 2011, the overall number of ordinances issued exceeded 1,600.
Although power sanding is prohibited in New Orleans by city ordinance (New Orleans, Louisiana, Code of Ordinances 2001), lack of oversight in the postdisaster environment resulted in widespread sanding of homes undergoing renovation.
Athens-Clarke County in Georgia further implemented an ordinance in 2005 prohibiting smoking in all restaurants and bars but not in all workplaces (Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, Code of Ordinances, Section 4.3, 2005).
Its Committee of Social Affairs is responsible for the appraisal of ordinances and laws in health and social areas including the Ordinance on HIV in 1995 and the Law on HIV in 2006.
