How to Use ordinance in a Sentence

ordinance

noun

• The town has passed a zoning ordinance limiting construction.
• This is not the sound of ordinance that's dropped from an airplane.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• At least a few states are trying to limit the reach of such ordinances.
  — John Hanna, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
• 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 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
• Placement of new noise and parade ordinances on the City Council’s agenda for a vote.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the City Council drafted a new ordinance, which allowed a broader range of signs.
  — Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• Hunters can not discharge guns within the city limits, according to the city code of ordinances.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
• The city has also floated around a short-term rental registration ordinance that has been tabled twice in the last few months.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
• The mayor says the ordinance was passed on Wednesday and goes into effect after 20 days.
  — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 28 May 2023
• Pits need to be placed at least 15 feet from any combustible structure, according to a city ordinance.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
• The Quorum Court put an ordinance to deny the permit on the agenda for the October meeting.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 22 Sep. 2023
• That ordinance, called the Tenant Protection Program, does not allow landlords to raise rent more than 10% a year and is set to expire at the end of the year.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• Not a single law or ordinance from the Qing era remains valid in public law in China today.
  — Lobsang Sangay, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
• On July 17, the church sued Cody and the planning and zoning board for violating their own ordinances.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• The only person who voted against the ordinance was White, according to a New York Times report from 1978.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• The council agreed to have city staffers research and prepare an ordinance to be included in the 2023 update of the city’s Climate Action Plan.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Stafford said another year-long extension to the ordinance would allow short-term rentals for more than three years.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 22 Nov. 2023
• But that changed with the new ordinance, which included a series of increases.
  — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The administration’s hope is for police to be able to utilize the ordinance before the colder months of winter set in.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Under a 2011 city ordinance, a public hearing is required to approve a new drilling zone.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• The City Council is required to review its cannabis ordinance, adopted in 2018, within five years of its approval.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• The first ordinance affects the design of the port’s two cargo terminals, which are on track to be built out for maximum utilization in the coming decades.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Aside from zoning ordinances, the church violated fire codes in a way that endangered lives, the city alleged.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• By late Tuesday, all four suburban towns had voted to adopt bus ordinances.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Per city ordinance, Milwaukee sidewalks are required to be clear of snow and ice 24 hours after snow stops falling.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• New Windsor has a five-member Town Council, whose members vote on ordinances.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
• Under a local ordinance, the mass gathering, which took place in a field and offered horseback trailer rides, had to be approved.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024