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The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits any business in California from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical ...
The Section 8 program, named after a section of the federal Housing Act, is one of the U.S. government’s most powerful tools to keep rental housing affordable and to fight overcrowding and ...
Library fines, also known as overdue fines, late fees, or overdue fees, are small daily or weekly fees that libraries in many countries charge borrowers after a book or other borrowed item is kept past its due date. Library fines are an enforcement mechanism designed to ensure that library books are returned within a certain period of time and ...
Library Services and Construction Act; Long title: An Act to amend the Library Services Act in order to increase the amount of assistance under such Act and to extend such assistance to nonrural areas. Acronyms (colloquial) LSCA: Nicknames: Library Services Act Amendment of 1964: Enacted by: the 88th United States Congress: Effective: February ...
A controversial plan to move some books in the Columbia County Library from the "Young Adult" or "Teen" sections to the "Adult" section is moving forward after a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
California Senate Bill 202, passed in 2011, mandated that initiatives and optional referendums can appear only on the November general election ballot, a statute that was controversial at the time, being seen as a self-serving, single-party initiative; [3] the November general election rule for initiatives and optional referendums has ...
An assistant principal has been accused of molesting eight children at an elementary school in California. David Lane Braff Jr. was charged with 17 felony counts of “lewd acts” on eight ...
The Victim's Bill of Rights added Section 28 to Article 1 of the constitution. This section has since been substantially added to and amended by Marsy's Law , enacted in 2008. Section 28 granted victims of crime the right to restitution from the perpetrator unless there were "compelling and extraordinary reasons" to the contrary.