ordinance

The bank was authorized by a 1983 ordinance of the government of Bangladesh.

This is offtopic, but I think this comment is exactly what I mean...Go read what he had to say about the ordinance.

I also called the police because they are clearly violating the city's own noise ordinance.

People need to monitor laws and ordinances in their local jurisdictions, and speak up when they see things that don't pass the smell test.

However, that referendum suspends the ordinance that makes their business model legal.

...it carries enough ordinance to stop a Soviet tank column...If we don't need them there would probably be some interested parties in Eastern Europe right about now...

When Lyft and UberX didn't get exactly what they wanted, they filed and paid for signature gathering to put the ordinance to a referendum; their right to do so under law.

Double parking for commercial delivery is already authorized by SF city ordinance.

Lobbying rules at the local and state level range from non-existent to very lax. As a result, getting a law or ordinance passed to benefit your company or industry at the local level is a relatively inexpensive and simple affair.

The purpose of the ordinance was to preserve and maintain single-family living areas of predominately single-story character.

And that men may not vindicate themselves by writing, their next interest is to be masters of the press, of which they are lately become by an ordinance for licensing books; which, being intended by the Parliament for a good and necessary end, namely the prohibition of all books dangerous or scandalous to the state, is become by means of the licensers, who are divines and intend their own interest, most serviceable to themselves in the stopping of honest men's writings, that nothing may come to the world's view but what they please - unless men will run the hazard of imprisonment, as I now do.