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[Daily News] City Councilman Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat who is running for mayor, proposed ending the system that allows council members to unilaterally dole out funds to nonprofit groups of their choosing.

This includes moves to close a loophole in legislation that allows council officials to vote on planning matters in which they or a relative have a pecuniary interest, where the permissible use of the land is not being altered.

We will change the law that allows councils to snoop on people for trivial matters.

If this fails to shift the developers, then Labour proposes toughening up the current confiscatory regime that allows councils to compel owners to sell.

A new law that allows councils to ban activities in public spaces is leading to "bizarre new criminal offences", which could see homeless people, buskers and people who feed pigeons prosecuted.

In July 2012, the council announced it would lend the sum, borrowing from the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB), a little-known central government fund that allows councils to borrow money cheaply to lend it on at a higher rate to profit-making infrastructure projects, thereby generating revenue for the council, if all goes well.

A law that allows councils in England and Wales to ban certain activities in public is leading to "bizarre new criminal offences", campaigners say.

The government is to tighten up the rules that allow councils to seize empty homes, claiming the current system, introduced under Labour, infringes civil liberties.

"At a minimum, we urge peers to back amendments that allow councils to retain enough receipts from every home sold to be able to replace it in the same area," the LGA leaders wrote.

"At a minimum, we urge peers to back amendments that allow councils to retain enough receipts from every home sold to be able to replace it in the same area," they write.

We are also determined to go even further in protecting the individual from the clutches of an over-mighty state, by taking the details of innocent people off the DNA database and amending the laws that allow councils to snoop on people.