How to Use ordinance in a Sentence

ordinance

noun
  • The town has passed a zoning ordinance limiting construction.
  • The ordinance was first passed in 2018 and has been tweaked at times since then.
    — The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2022
  • This is not the sound of ordinance that's dropped from an airplane.
    — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Zoom out: Atlanta has a short-term rental ordinance on the books.
    — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But in response to a lawsuit, the city agreed to withdraw the ordinance.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • At least a few states are trying to limit the reach of such ordinances.
    — John Hanna, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And the Chicago ordinance passed in 2021 included a ban on the sale of the old devices.
    — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In order to create the trust fund, a ordinance needs to be passed by the Scott County Board.
    — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Rather than appeal to the Supreme Court, the city settled the case and agreed not to enforce its ordinance during overnight hours.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Campers also would have had to follow the city's noise ordinance.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
  • The Texas ordinances have been pitched in that register, and that rhetoric is spreading.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The ordinance was filed with the City Council and announced Monday by Wu.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The new ordinance may hurt some current Airbnb hosts in the meantime, who are counting on the income.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Efforts to amend the ordinance failed, and Hoobler chose to resign rather than give up his liquor license.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The ordinance would need to be drafted by the city attorney's office and returned to the council for a vote.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Weiss said the prohibition was part of the city’s liquor ordinance.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Weiss said the prohibition was part of the city’s liquor ordinance.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • That’s where Josh Hetzler, the attorney who helped craft the ordinance, is based.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The new ordinance was passed on Feb. 9, just two months after the tornado.
    — Lauren Craddock, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2022
  • Placement of new noise and parade ordinances on the City Council’s agenda for a vote.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The city’s current ordinance, which was put in place in 2019, doesn’t allow such access.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2022
  • The city sent a letter, Cooke said, per a city sign ordinance to the restaurant owners on file, that the restaurant had 30 days to remove its sign.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
  • When asked about Hall’s ordinance, Johnson praised the alderman, but did not take a stance.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024
  • San Diego had been the only major urban area in the state without such an ordinance.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • If the ordinance passes in its current form, All Time would lose half its outdoor seats.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But the City Council drafted a new ordinance, which allowed a broader range of signs.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • This March, the group will have a rally at the Kentucky Capitol to advocate for the expansion of the ordinance statewide.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The city passes a similar ordinance covering the same area in the spring.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 15 June 2022
  • Following the unanimous vote by the council Tuesday, city staff will return with a draft ordinance April 22 and again for a second reading May 13.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
  • If the legal challenge stalls or overturns the city's ordinance and what that could mean for future efforts to bring housing into industrial neighborhoods.
    — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025

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