Ordinance is an English word with synonyms like regulation or appointment. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ordinance in a sentence
Related words
Ordinance meaning
- A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
- An edict or decree, authoritative order.
- Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
Synonyms of Ordinance
Using Ordinance
- The main meaning on this page is: A local law, passed by e.g. a city. | An edict or decree, authoritative order. | Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
- Useful related words include: regulation, designation, assignment, appointment.
- In the example corpus, ordinance often appears in combinations such as: the ordinance, an ordinance, ordinance that.
Example sentences (20)
That includes the process by which the ordinance was passed, including a look at the ordinance in Jasper County, which Lunt termed “a friendly ordinance” for solar, and going through the plan commission instead of the board of zoning appeals.
Bus companies that violate the ordinance could be fined up to $750 per person dropped off, and the bus seized and impounded by the village, according to the ordinance.
Merced City Council to consider ordinance cracking down on public campingThe Merced City Council is considering an ordinance to restrict camping in public spaces.
Nuisance animal ordinance unanimously adoptedhe Chester Select Board voted unanimously to adopt a proposed Nuisance Animal Ordinance that it has been working on for several months following complaints from residents of the Potash Brook Road area.
Ordinance 2024-18 was voted on for its second reading, and after many minutes of discussion about the topics presented in the Ordinance, was voted on with five “yays” and 2 “nays”.
When the ordinance was on first reading, Mayor Rappold recommended the ordinance be passed that way there can be a public hearing.
The City Council voted last Thursday to have the City Attorney’s Office draft an ordinance that would halt rent increases for units protected by the city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance for 360 days.
The man who told me about the Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance of 1787, quoting from the documents without referring to any paperwork, is also the fellow who explained to me how public school funding worked in Illinois.
City council would be required to pass an ordinance that establishes how the election would be conducted; the ordinance would have to set a date for the election, identify the polling places that would be used and appoint election judges.
Council approved a then and now for $3,216, prepared an ordinance to make returned check fees reflect additional fees, and prepared an ordinance to set health insurance rates for City employees for 2020.
Council will continue to tweak the proposed ordinance and adopt a reasonable, pragmatic new ordinance.
Despite his opposition to the ordinance, Miller chose not to veto CO2202 because a veto would have eliminated the possibility of a public referendum on the ordinance.
He said the ordinance was taken from Brookfield and recently Brookfield has had challenges to their ordinance that it is too restrictive.
Hosafros asked that the final ordinance specify that the council is seeking to eliminate any discriminatory aspect of the STR ordinance.
In the new ordinance, what replaces the provisions for public safety in the old ordinance?
The board voted 12-4 to approve the rules for the "Just Housing" ordinance, which is actually an amendment to the county’s housing ordinance.
The council amended the ordinance to state that a simple Board of Ethics majority could rule on an ethics violation, but deferred further changes to the ordinance to a subsequent meeting.
The move by Jones to seek more information on a nondiscrimination ordinance comes on the heels of the city of Chamblee approving April 16 its own nondiscrimination ordinance.
The noise ordinance states, and every noise ordinance that I have read across the state of New Hampshire begins with the acknowledgment, that loud noises “detrimentally affect public health, comfort, safety, welfare and prosperity…”.
The Ordinance and Rules Committee continued its review of the trash ordinance Monday night and the newest amendments would restrict residents to 64 gallons of trash per week.
Common combinations with ordinance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ordinance 72×
- an ordinance 36×
- ordinance that 23×
- ordinance to 15×
- ordinance was 14×
- proposed ordinance 9×
- ordinance would 8×
- ordinance and 8×
- new ordinance 8×
- ordinance which 7×