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RIGHTS-BASED HOME RULE CHARTER
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Blaine Township Study Commission Final Report and Home Rule
Charter
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ORDINANCES
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Civil Liberties
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Defense of Civil Liberties (Anti-Patriot Act) Ordinance
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Packer Township Community Self-Government Ordinance
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Corporations
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Town of Monroe Local Self-Government Ordinance
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Blaine Township Corporate Disclosure and Environmental
Protection Ordinance
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Donegal Township Democratic Self-Government and Local
Control Ordinance
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Wayne Township Environmental Protection Ordinance -- the "three strikes you're out" corporate ordinance
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Wayne Township Corporate Ownership and Local Control Ordinance
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Elections
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A Voter Bill of Rights: A Fair and Clean Elections and Government Ordinance - Developed by Envision Spokane for presentation to the Spokane City Council
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CELDF Model Elections Ordinance
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Eminent Domain
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Blaine Township Community Self-Governance and Corporate
Takings Prohibition Ordinance
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Montgomery County Anti-Corporate Takings and Securing Local
Self-Governance Ordinance
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Factory Farms
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Southampton Anti-Corporate Agriculture Ordinance
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| Peach Bottom Sustainable Agriculture and Community
Self-Governance Ordinance |
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Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMOs)
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Genetically Modified Seed Planting and Transferral Prohibition
and Democratic Self-Government Ordinance
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Hard Rock Mining
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Sample Sustainable Mining Policy, from Proposed Blaine
Township Home Rule Charter, 2009
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Blaine Township Corporate Mining Ordinance
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The Town of Halifax corporate Mining, Bodily Trespass, and
Community Self-Government Ordinance
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Land Use
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Blaine Township Corporate Land Development Ordinance
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Borough of North Plainfield NJ Corporate Land Development and
Local Self-Government Ordinance
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Newtown Township Comprehensive Plan Ordinance
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Windsor Township Corporate Land Development Ordinance
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National Animal Identification System Nullification
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Anti-NAIS Ordinance
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Oil and Gas Drilling
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Pittsburgh’s Community Protection from Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance
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Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six, Conduct, Article 1 “Regulated Rights and actions,” by adding Chapter 619 entitled “Toxic Trespass Resulting from Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling.”
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Mountain Lake Park Maryland Protection from Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance
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West Homestead Pennsylvania Community Rights Gas Extraction Prohibition Ordinance
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Town of Wales, New York Community Protection of Natural Resources
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Baldwin, Pennsylvania Community Protection from Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance
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Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania Community Protection from Natural Gas Drilling Ordinance
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Forest Hill Borough's Community Rights and Protection from Natural Gas Exploitation Ordinance
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State College Borough's Community Bill of Rights Home Rule Charter Amendment
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Las Vegas, New Mexico's Community Water Rights and Local Self-Governance Ordinance
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| Yellow Springs, Ohio's Community Rights and Protection from Shale Gas Drilling and Fracking Ordinance |
| Broadview
Heights, Ohio's Petition to Amend City Charter with Community Bill of
Rights Protection from Shale Gas Drilling and Fracking |
| Mansfield, Ohio's Charter Amendment for a Community Bill of Rights and Protection from Shale Gas Drilling and Fracking |
| Ferguson
Twp, Pennsylvania's Petition to Amend Home Rule Charter with Community
Bill of Rights Protection from Shale Gas Drilling and Fracking |
Highland Twp, Pennsylvania's Community Rights and Protection from Injection Wells Ordinance
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Mora Co, New Mexico's Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance
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Nockamixon Township Corporate Mining, Bodily Trespass and
Democratic Self-Government Ordinance*
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Sample Sustainable Mining Policy, from Proposed Blaine
Township Home Rule Charter, 2009
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Van Etten NY Water Rights and Community Self-Government
Ordinance
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Lehman Township Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance
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Danby NY Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance
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Pesticides and Toxic Trespass
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Santa Cruz Local Control, Pesticide and Chemical Trespass Ordinance
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Retailing
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Windsor Township Product Retailing Ordinance
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Sewage Sludge and Toxic Trespass
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Tamaqua Borough Sewage Sludge Ordinance [This is
the FIRST legislation ever to recognize the Inalienable Right of Natural Communities
and Ecosystems to Exist and Flourish (Rights of Nature) and was the model for
language included in the National Constitution of Ecuador recognizing the
Rights of Nature (RON)]
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East Brunswick Sewage Sludge Ordinance, August 2006
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Packer Township Sludge and Toxic Trespass Ordinance, April,
2008
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Campbell County Sewage Sludge Ordinance
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Mahanoy Township Sewage Sludge Ordinance
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Sustainability Ordinances
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Sustainable Energy Policy
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Peach Bottom Sustainable Agriculture and Community
Self-Governance Ordinance
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Sugar Hill Right to a Sustainable Future and Local Self-Governance Ordinance
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Plymouth Right to a Sustainable Future and Local Self-Governance Ordinance
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| Easton Right to a Sustainable Future and Local Self-Governance Ordinance |
Grafton Right to a Sustainable Future and Local Self-Governance Ordinance
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Toxic and Chemical Trespass
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Bethel Corporate Toxics and Local Self-Government Ordinance
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Tamaqua Borough Chemical Trespass Ordinance
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East Berlin Chemical Trespass Ordinance
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Waste
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Bethlehem Local Control and Waste Reduction Ordinance
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Tamaqua Borough Corporate Waste and Local Control Ordinance
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St. Claire Borough Corporate Waste and Local Control Ordinance -- bans waste hauling through the jurisdiction
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Water Rights
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Barnstead Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance
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City of Mt. Shasta Community Water Rights and Local
Self-Government Ordinance
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Newfield Water Rights and Local Self-Government Warrant Article
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Nottingham Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance, original
Nottingham Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance, as amended March 15, 2008
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Shapleigh Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance
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Wells Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance (not enacted)
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Rockland Township Water Supply Protection Ordinance - (The
Rockland Water Usage Ordinance)- requires any new, corporate, large
users of water supplies within a local jurisdiction to prepare a Water
Impact Study to show that industrial and commercial use of water will
not have an adverse impact on groundwater supplies. This Ordinance has
been adopted by five local governments in Pennsylvania.
*This
DRAFT ORDINANCE was not enacted, but was drafted at the request of
community members in 2008. It was to be reviewed by the Township Board
of Supervisors, was discussed with them, but was never brought to a
vote.
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