ORDINANCE


Meaning of ORDINANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

city

She added that the city ordinance could be preempted by state gun laws.

To comply with a city ordinance that barred the sale of the books, the tomes were buried in a city landfill.

It is against State law and City ordinance .

■ VERB

pass

On January 18, 1977, by a vote of five to three, the commission passed the ordinance .

The Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance last fall to allow the new procedure.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The ordinance prohibits the sale of fireworks within city limits.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance .

But he said the specific cases did help his staff realize what kinds of establishments were not covered by the 1998 ordinance .

But the record clearly indicates that ordinance came about primarily due to the efforts of McKasson and Councilman Steve Leal.

Edgewater and Oak Hill have ordinances to protect possible archaeological sites from souvenir hunters.

In practice this ordinance brought about little immediate change because it was introduced piecemeal into various districts.

The city's historical commission has been working on such an ordinance for several years with no success.

The City states in its briefs that the domestic partners ordinance does not interfere with those statutes.

Without declaring for or against the coup, Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces.

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